Federated Concept Library Glossary

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Definition: The energy of ionizing radiation absorbed per unit mass by a body, often measured in rads.

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Definition: An action to misuse a resource.

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Definition: The rate of change of velocity per unit of time.

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Definition: An term, data value or other sign that identifies a person for access to a resource.

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Definition: A point of entry into or out of a system such as a door, gate, port, or "interface" into an information system.

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Definition: 1 acre = 43 560 square feet.

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Definition: An Event performed by one or more actors intended to meet a need.
[UAF] Work, not specific to a single organization, weapon system or individual that transforms inputs (Resources) into outputs (Resources) or changes their state.

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Definition: An event (planned or actual) that affects specific things in specific ways.

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Definition: An entity capable of behavior - performing an activity or process.

[IDEAS] Agent: Something capable of action.
[FIBO] AutonomousAgent: An agent is an autonomous individual that can adapt to and interact with its environment.

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Definition: A specific, actual, activity that has or may happen.

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Definition: An actual entity is an identifiable, temporal and individual person, specific object, process enactment, agreement, etc. Actual Entities do not have to be physical, e.i. may denote social constructs. Actual entities are disjoint from types.
A more specific class of actual entity (e.g., Person) is intended to refine the classification of the individual thing.
Individuality (or selfhood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being separate from other individuals and possessing identity. Actual entities typically have a lifetime and some individuals may change over that lifetime. Individuals may have parts that together help define the individual but may change over time.
"Actual" does not imply current existence.

[ISO 1087] individual concept: concept (3.2.1) which corresponds to only one object

[UML] Loose correspondence with "InstanceSpecification". SMIF instances are direct instances of their types, there is no "indirection" through value specification as their is in UML.

[Guizzardi] (individual concept)

[CL] Individual: one element of the universe of discourse

[DOLCE] Particular: particulars are entities which have no instances

[SOWA1999] Independent. Can be considered "Actuality" when including social constructs in [SOWA1999] Physical.

[OWL] Individual

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Definition: A specific individual occurrence that has happened, is happening or may happen.

[FIBO] Occurrence: An Occurrence is a happening of an OccurrenceKind. Each Occur-rence has a DateTimeStamp, which identifies when the Occurrence happened, and a Location (possibly virtual), that identifies where the Occurrence happened.

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Definition: An actual situation is an individual situation that actually exists, happened in the past or may exist in some possible world, not a template or process definition. Such situations must exist for a time interval, however there are no constraints on such a time interval - from an instant to the life of the universe.

DTV: Occurrence: state of affairs that is a happening in the universe of discourse

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Definition: A condition that has, will or does exist.

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Definition: An action to add information to a repository or information structure.

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Definition: An event that puts things into containers or locations. This results in a new containment relationship.

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Definition: The Event of providing or removing abilities (including control) by impacting the resources available to an actor.

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Definition: The abstract unit of the amount of a substance which is the supertype of all amount units and also acts as its "quantity kind".
Amount of substance is a standards-defined quantity that measures the size of an ensemble of elementary entities, such as atoms, molecules, electrons, and other particles. It is sometimes referred to as chemical amount. The International System of Units (SI) defines the amount of substance to be proportional to the number of elementary entities present. The SI unit for amount of substance is the mole. It has the unit symbol mol.

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Definition: [NIST-SI] The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 meter apart in a vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10-7 newton per meter of length.

[IDEAS] electricCurrentInAmperes: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names an ElectricCurrent with its ValueInAmperes

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Definition: A situation that is true (happening) only when all "enabled by" are true - AND

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Definition: The space (usually measured in radians or degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet.

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Definition: Any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli. A super type of "Person".

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Definition: An annotation property is a specialization of property where the referenced elements represent metadata about the related proposition, structure or information (or model element) rather than a fact or condition of the domain being represented.
For an annotation property, <is of type> describes instances of the structured type for which the property is defined.
Typical uses of annotations include provenance of information, when a record was created, etc.
[ISO11404] annotation: descriptive information unit attached to a datatype, or a component of a datatype, or a procedure (value), to characterize some aspect of the representations, variables, or operations associated with values of the datatype

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Definition: [QUDT] Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve.

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Definition: Role of an entity that is assessed.

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Definition: An evaluation, appraisal, or assessment of something or someone.

[NIEM] AssessmentType: The act of evaluating or estimating the nature, ability, or quality of something. {Note: In NIEM the assessment and activity are combined}

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Definition: An activity that results in an assessment - An evaluation, appraisal, or assessment of something or someone. An assessment frequently as an artifact, a report of the assessment.
[NIEM] AssessmentType: The act of evaluating or estimating the nature, ability, or quality of something.

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Definition: An association makes a logical statement involving related things, the association ends. An association may be asserted within a context as true or false within that context. Each association type has a number of bindings of which are immutable for that association.
An association may be true or false within its context and is atomic in its truth value.
Associations are differentiated from relationships in that associations are not situations - they are not temporal and do not change over time. Associations may be a consequence of relationships or other situations or may be derived from qualities of associated ends.
Associations can "own" owned property bindings as their "ends".
See also: Relationship
[Guizzardi] Intrinsic Relation
[UML] Link
[DOLCE] Formal Relation

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Definition: A type of Association (See Association for details) which defines a set of "Association Property Types" which are the types of association property bindings. Associations are not situations - the are not temporal things. THis does not prevent subtypes of associations from being situations.
[Guizzardi] Intrinsic Relation Type
[UML] Association
[OWL] For binary associations, may be considered a pair of properties that are Inverse Object Properties.

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Definition: An atomic information object is a managed piece of information composed entirely of a single value. e.g. an MP3 representation of a song. Note that different viewpoints and abstractions may not agree on what is "atomic". e.g. a music editor may consider a song a series of samples.

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Definition: An actor with authority over resources such that it can assert policy or behavior.
[ISO 15779:2011] organization, office, or individual responsible for approving equipment, installations or procedures

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Definition: Any actual entity all or partially controlled by automation.

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Definition: A categorization of computers and software across any dimension - chip type, operating system, language, manufacturer, virtual machine, etc. The automation type may be used to establish software compatibilities and vulnerabilities. Note that any automation may be categorized by multiple automation types.

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Definition: A machine or group of machines (most often a computer system, robot, or computerized swarm combined with software), or software that can perform actions in accordance with a process without another actor directing each step of the process.
Distinguished from simple tools which facilitate an actor performing a process but have no innate ability to follow such a process.
Automation is distinguished from "legal entity" and "stakeholder", roles of some actors which indicates the ability to enter into legally binding agreements or have objectives (at this time no Automatons are legal entities or stakeholders but the model does not preclude the possibility).

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Definition: One unit type of a quantity kind may be marked as the base unit within a system of units. The base unit provides the basis for conversions between units of the same quantity kind. The base unit always has a ratio of one and an offset of zero.

Type of a [JCGM 200:2008] measurement unit that is adopted by convention for a base quantity

[FIBO] (type of) Base Unit: a measurement unit that is defined by a system of units to be the reference measurement unit for a base quantity

There ma be at most one base unit for a quantity kind within a system of units.

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Definition: The SI unit of radioactivity, corresponding to one disintegration per second.

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Definition: A benefit is a consequence of a situation having positive desirability.

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Definition: Something on the edge of a system that serves to contain or protect components of that system.
Some boundaries protect resources of the system/enterprise and may also be countermeasures.
e.g., Fences, firewalls, skin.

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Definition: The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.[NIST-SI]

[IDEAS] luminousIntensityInCandela: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a LuminousIntensity with its ValueInCandela

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Definition: Action to capture or gain control of some resource.

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Definition: A category is a classification or division of people, events or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics. Categorization is typically contextual, potentially transient and may or may not be formally defined.
As with all facets, categories are non-rigid. Something classified by a category must also be classified by an entity type.

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Definition: Centigrade. The temperature scale (Celsius scale) in which 0° represents the ice point and 100° the steam point of water.

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Definition: A characteristic of a specific thing, e.g. the color of Pump-1234 in the <bound to> entity. A characteristic is a "first class" element and may participate in relationships and have annotations.

[IDEAS] measureOfIndividual: A typeInstance that asserts an Individual is an instance of a Measure - i.e. the Individual "has" a property corresponding to the Measure.

[ISO 1087] characteristic: abstraction of a property of an object (3.1.1) or of a
set of objects

[Guizzardi] quality(x) =def ∃!U qualityUniversal(U) ∧ (x::U)

[DOLCE] Quality

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Definition: A kind of characteristic a type of thing may have, e.g. paint may have a color. Characteristic type is the type of characteristic bindings which are "first class" elements and may participate in relationships and have other characteristics.

[IDEAS] Property: An IndividualType whose members all exhibit a common trait or feature. Often the Individuals are states having a property (the state of being 18 degrees centigrade), where this property can be a CategoricalProperty (qv.) or a DispositionalProperty (qv.).

[ISO 1087] type of characteristics: category of characteristics (3.2.4) which serves as the criterion of subdivision when establishing concept systems. NOTE The type of characteristics colour embraces characteristics (3.2.4) being red, blue, green, etc. The type of characteristics material embraces characteristics made of wood, metal, etc.

[FIBO] Simple Property: Simple Properties are assertions about things in a class, which may be framed in terms of some simple type of information.

[Guizzardi] qualityUniversal(U)

[DOLCE] Quality Type

[OWL] rdf:Statement

[UML] Property

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Definition: The role of a responsible performer receiving goods or services from a provider.
[FIBO] Client: a party that acquires, or agrees to acquire, ownership (in case of goods), or benefit or usage (in case of services), in exchange for money or other consideration under a contract of sale

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Definition: An action that removes information from visibility.

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Definition: Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects or materials based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra. By defining a color space, colors can be identified numerically by their coordinates.

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Definition: A device able to communicate or facilitate communications across a network.

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Definition: A physical or virtual link between communications devices allowing them to communicate.

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Definition: A physical or electronic system intended to facilitate communications between entities. Includes communications channels, computer networks, physical mail and RF networks.

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Definition: An abstract type for levels of security in communications.

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Definition: A composite condition is a state that is inferred to be true or false based on the set of "affected by" (input) situations and the logic of the specific composite event subtype and the condition (if any).
The composite condition can then be used to trigger a set of "effects" (output) situations.
Combinations of Events, states. and composite conditions be combined with composite conditions to represent fault, flow or dependency graphs.
Note that cause & effect, negation and enablement are all subtypes of effect and can be combined using composite conditions.

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Definition: A value for a duration derived from the sum of primitive duration values. e.g. 2 days and 3 hours or 2016 years, 12 months and three days.

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Definition: A facade that is computed by calling external methods.

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Definition: A computer control system is a device, or set of devices, that manages, commands, directs or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems. Industrial control systems are used in industrial production for controlling equipment or machines.

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Definition: An identifiable and physical computer system that acts as an automaton agent performing processes.
[ISO/IEC 10514-1:1996] The combination of hardware and, optionally, firmware and software (e.g. operating system) that enables the execution of software.

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Definition: The abstract concept of the amount, mass or volume of one substance in another without being specific as to how it is measured.

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Definition: Concentration based on amount-of-substance.

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Definition: Concentration based on mass per unit of volume.

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Definition: Volume concentration is defined as the volume of a constituent divided by the volume of the mixture.

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Definition: The volume of a constituent divided by the volume of the mixture.

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Definition: A model of a real or possible world as conceived by the model authors.

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Definition: Anything with a condition defined by an expression.

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Definition: A rule with a general expression as a condition that applies to what the rule <constrains>. Where asserted, the condition must be true.
[UML] Constraint where "context" corresponds with <holds within> and "constrainedElement" corresponds with "constrains". "specification" corresponds with "condition".

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Definition: A statement and measure of the confidence in any fact or set of facts about an entity.

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Definition: Any metric of confidence that something is true or valid.

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Definition: A consequence or impact of the outcome of a situation affecting objectives of a stakeholder.
NOTE 1 An event can lead to a range of consequences.
NOTE 2 A consequence can be certain or uncertain and can have positive or negative effects on objectives.
NOTE 3 Consequences can be expressed qualitatively or quantitatively.
NOTE 4 Initial consequences can escalate through knock-on effects.
[ISO 73-2009]

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Definition: A calculation that returns a thing identified by <has value>.

[FIBO] Constant
[FUML] LiteralSpecification where subtype of literal is determined by the type of <has value>.
-LiteralInteger->type is Integer or a subtype
-LiteralReal-> type is not integer or a subtype
-LiteralBoolean->type is Boolean
-LiteralString->type is Text

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Definition: Anything that may be used to communicate with an individual.
[FIBO] AddressingScheme
[NIEM] ContactMeans & ContactInformationType

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Definition: Anything that can be send or receive information or be the proxy for things that can send or receive information, e.g., people, organizations and places.

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Definition: Role of something as a container for other things. Containers & Containment may be physical or virtual.

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Definition: An event impacting containment of the <contained thing>. Subtypes include "Put Into Event", "Removal Event" and "Relocation".

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Definition: A <Context> is proposition that groups a set of <contextualizes> things that are related in some way.

A <Context> also <asserts> propositions that hold for all things the context <contextualizes>, thus providing the link between an assertion and the set of things asserted. Likewise a context <negates> propositions that are false within the context.

Subtypes of <Context>, such as <Type> ascribe more semantics to the context as well as the things it <contextualizes>.

A context provides a binding between a set of propositions and the things those propositions apply to.

[CL] Sort: any subset of the universe of discourse over which some quantifier is allowed to range

[ISO 1087] concept field: unstructured set of thematically related concepts (3.2.1)

[SOWA1999] Mediating

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Definition: Role of an entity that is controlled by a controlling actor.
[FIBO] ControlledThing: thing over which some party exercises some form of control in some context

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Definition: Role of an actor that asserts control over any entity.
[FIBO] ContollingParty: Party which exercises some form of control in some context.

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Definition: A device or system providing a means of physical transport from place to place.
[NIEM] ConveyanceType

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Definition: Any set of magnitudes that serve to define the position of a point, line, or the like, by reference to a coordinate system.

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Definition: A reference system for a coordinate. e.g., WGS-84.
[OGC] Set of mathematical rules for specifying how coordinates are to be assigned to points.

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Definition: An Information Action to duplicate information in another location or container.

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Definition: Unit of radiation exposure.

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Definition: The number of something used as a property or metric, e.g., 5 fish.

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Definition: A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory (not necessarily contiguous).
[FIBO] Country: A self-governing geopolitical unit that is recognized as a country by the United Nations (more specific concept as being recognized by the U.N.)

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Definition: A code, ID, or name for a country.

[ISO 1087] country identifier: information in a terminological entry (3.8.2) which indicates the name of a geographical region where the designation (3.4.1) is used

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Definition: A constraint that the extent (<categorizes> things) of the <constrains> type is equivalent to the union of the extents of the <is covered by> types.
[UML] GeneralizationSet with isCovering=TRUE. "constrains" corresponds with the common "general" of each Generalization". "is covered by" corresponds with each "special" of each generalization.

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Definition: The creation of something

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Definition: An action that creates information.

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Definition: A credential is an attestation of qualification, competence, or authority issued to an individual by a third party with a relevant or de-facto authority or assumed competence to do so. Credentials can be physical (a house key), documents (a certificate) or virtual (a PKI key) and may be valid for a specific time frame and in specific context.

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Definition: A volume measured in feet.

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Definition: A volume measured in inches.

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Definition: A volume measured in meters.

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Definition: 8 Fluid Ounces (US).

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Definition: The SI unit of measure for radioactivity is the curie (Ci) and Becquerel (Bq).

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Definition: Any form of money.
[FIBO] Currency: medium of exchange value, defined by reference to the geographical location of the authorities responsible for it

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Definition: A metric for benefit or harm expressed in terms of a currency, such as dollars or yen.

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Definition: A situation that is actually occurring at the moment. "the moment" is contextual and interpreted within the context of the model.

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Definition: An actor who has responsibility for or looks after some managed entity. A Custodian <has custody of> a managed entity via the Custody relation.

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Definition: An action that causes an entity to no longer completely fulfill its purpose.

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Definition: An action that causes an resource to no longer completely fulfill its purpose..

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Definition: [FIBO] DateTimeStamp: A DateTimeStamp combines a Date, a time, and a time

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Definition: [FIBO] Date: A Date identifies a calendar day on some calendar.
[NIEM] DateType

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Definition: [UAF] A date and time specified in the ISO8601 date-time format including timezone designator (TZD): YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD.

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Definition: A unit of time equal to 24 hours.

[DTV] day: the precise time unit that is quantified by 86 400 seconds
[OWL] xsd:gDay

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Definition: An informal or natural language definition of a something and potentially a reference to external definitions.
A Definition may be in the context of a natural language to scope the language it is expressed in.

[ISO 1087] definition: representation of a concept (3.2.1) by a descriptive statement which serves to differentiate it from related concepts

[FUML] Comment (where body corresponds with "text definition").

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Definition: A unit for an angle from 0-360.

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Definition: An action to delete information, erase it or render it inaccessible.

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Definition: Desirability measure of a situation. The context of the desirability can be the specific stakeholder desirability relation or a classification of a situation in a context, such as an undesirable situation.
Desirability may be computed by aggregating the impact of a situation on stakeholders but the specific calculation is not specified in the standard.
A positive desirability is an opportunity; a negative desirability is a danger.
When the stakeholder desirability of a situation to a stakeholder has net harm, that harm may be identified as a risk. S

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Definition: The destruction or deletion of something.

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Definition: A thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
[NIEM] DeviceType

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Definition: Disjoint is a rule that the things denoted by what the rule <constrains> do not and may not denote any of the same set of things.
When applied to a context (including types) all elements contextualized are included in the set of disjoint individuals.

[FIBO] Mutually Exclusive sets

[IDEAS] PartitionOfSetOfDisjointIndividuals: A FusionOfSetOfIndividuals whose fusioned Type is a SetOfDisjointIndividuals.

[UML] [UML] GeneralizationSet with isDisjoint=TRUE. "constrains" corresponds with "is covered by" of each "special" of each generalization. Note the SMIF does not require that disjoint elements have a common supertype, one may be inferred for UML mapping.

[OWL: Union(DisjointClasses, DisjointObjectProperties, DisjointDataProperties, DifferentIndividuals)

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Definition: An action intended to cause a process to not achieve its desired affect.

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Definition: A collection of information about a topic, frequently containing some analysis or summary, intended for use by a stakeholder.

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Definition: A measure of the biological damage to living tissue as a result of radiation exposure. Also known as the "biological dose," the dose equivalent is calculated as the product of absorbed dose in tissue multiplied by a quality factor and then sometimes multiplied by other necessary modifying factors at the location of interest. The dose equivalent is expressed numerically in rems or sieverts (Sv) (see 10 CFR 20.1003). For additional information, see Doses in Our Daily Lives and Measuring Radiation. [NRC]
For practical purposes, 1 R (exposure) = 1 rad (absorbed dose) = 1 rem or 1000 mrem (dose equivalent).

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Definition: The abstract quantity kind of time which is the supertype of all time duration units.
Time is a measure that allows events to be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them. Durations are quantities of time, not points or intervals of time.

[DTV] base quantity of the International System of Quantities, used for measuring time intervals.

[IDEAS] Time: A MeasureInstance whose members are individuals' that have a particular temporal dimension of the same length.

[FIBO] Duration: An amount of time.

[UML] Duration

[OWL] xsd:duration

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Definition: The abstract quantity kind of electric current which is the supertype of all current units.
[QUDT]Electric Current is the flow (movement) of electric charge. The amount of electric current through some surface, e.g., a section through a copper conductor, is defined as the amount of electric charge flowing through that surface over time. Current is a scalar-valued quantity.
The SI unit for measuring an electric current is the ampere, which is the flow of electric charge across a surface at the rate of one coulomb per second.

[IDEAS] ElectricCurrent: A MeasureInstance whose members are individuals' that all have the same electric current flowing through them

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Definition: [QUDT] Electric Potential is a scalar valued quantity associated with an electric field.

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Definition: Contact information that enables communications with or via an actor or telecommunications device by electronic means.
[FIBO] VirtualAddress: an address identifying a virtual, i.e. non-physical location

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Definition: Contact information for the delivery of mail via an electronic network.
[NIEM] ContactEmailId (of <electronic contact>)

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Definition: The measure of energy- the ability to perform work (such as moving a mass).

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Definition: An enterprise is a stakeholder organization, organized as a system, with a mission, members, and authority over resources to accomplish its mission(s). An enterprise provides context for operations and analysis. An enterprise may have parts - its divisions or departments.
[BMM] Organizational Unit:

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Definition: A type of an identifiable entity. All concrete entity instances must have at least one entity type. Entity type may be mixed with other types to fully define an entity.

[FUML] Classifier

[Guarino1994] Substantial or Pseudo-Sortal (Substantial being concrete)
[Guizzardi] A Rigid Universal.
(Rigid Universal): A universal G is rigid (or modally constant) iff for any w,w’ ∈ W 3. extw(G) = extw’(G) Putting definitions 4.1 and 4.3 together, we have that for any rigid universal G the following is true 4. ext(G) = extw(G), for all w ∈ W A rigid universal is one that applies to its instances necessarily, i.e., in every possible world. Every substance sortal G is a rigid universal.
[OWL] rdfs:Class (as Entity Type does not include values). However, non=primitive values are typically represented as rdfs:Class

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Definition: The action of entering through a boundary.

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Definition: The contextualized elements of the <constrains> context is a closed (enumerated) set, it can not be extended. A.K.A. "Closed World Assumption". Elements may not be asserted by any context other than the one specified in <holds within>.

[FIBO] Selections of Things
[FUML] Wen constraining a type, corresponds with [FUML] "Enumeration". SMIF enumerations are not limited to literals. The "ownedLiteral" corresponds with all elements owned by <holds within>.
[ISO11404] Enumerated: enumerated is a family of datatypes, each of which comprises a finite number of distinguished values having an intrinsic order.
[OWL] ObjectUnitionOf( DataOneOf, ObjectOneOf )

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Definition: Returns TRUE if all <has equal> things have the same value or represent the same thing or set of things regardless of how they are represented.
Equality will return TRUE or FALSE.
[ISO11404: EqualityIn every value space there is a notion of equality, for which the following rules hold:
⎯ for any two instances (a, b) of values from the value space, either a is equal to b, denoted a = b , or a is not equal to b, denoted a ≠ b ;
⎯ there is no pair of instances (a, b) of values from the value space such that both a = b and a ≠ b ;
⎯ for every value a from the value space, a = a ;
⎯ for any two instances (a, b) of values from the value space, a = b if and only if b = a ;
⎯ for any three instances (a, b, c) of values from the value space, if a = b and b = c , then a = c . On every datatype, the operation Equal is defined in terms of the equality property of the value space, by:
⎯ for any values a, b drawn from the value space, Equal(a,b) is true if a = b , and false otherwise.

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Definition: Equivalent is a rule that the things the rule <constraints> denote the same set of things. When applied to a context (including types) each thing the context contextualizes is included in the set of equivalent things.

Related to*: [ISO 1087] synonymy: relation between or among terms (3.4.3) in a given language representing the same concept (3.2.1)

Related to*: [ISO 1087] equivalence: relation between designations (3.4.1) in different languages representing the same concept (3.2.1)

* SMIF relates concepts, not terms. synonymy may also be represented by multiple terms for the same concept.

[OWL] Union( SameIndividual, EquivalentClasses, EquivalentObjectProperties, EquivalentDataProperties)

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Definition: The evaluation of an expression. All references to an evaluation shall return the result of evaluating the <evaluates> expression node. All expression nodes referenced within an evaluation shall return the result of evaluating that expression node.
An evaluation may be used in place of anything that requires the <resulting type> of the evaluation.

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Definition: An action to exceed the capacity of some resource.

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Definition: <<Exists Rule> is a rule to map the existence of an <element> to a boolean.
<exists> is true iff <element> is not null.

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Definition: An action of exiting through a boundary.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An abstract element defining the static or dynamic evaluation context and resulting type of an expression.
An expression context that is referenced by another expression context inherits the referencing context by default.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An abstract class representing the computation of a value which is then bound to the context from which it is called. Each expression node has a type of the most general type it can return.

An expression node may reference other elements. Where the other elements are also expression nodes they will be considered part of the referencing expression and evaluated in the context of that expression.

The set of related expression nodes forms a "tree" for evaluation.

[FIBO] Expression
[UML] Expression

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An expression variable defines the value of the variable as computed by <computation>. Note that expression variables are not always able to be asserted or reversed and may therefore not provide for bi-directional mapping patterns. Any ability to assert or reverse a computation is implementation specific.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An intermediary data type used to hold common mappings. Facades may be computed and/or have mapping rules.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A facet is a "mix in" type that defines an aspect of something but does not define the identity or "fundamental" (A.K.A. "Rigid") type of that thing, but some potentially transient role, phase or other way to classify it. Something must have at least one type that is not a facet to define that things identity.
Facets do not define independent identity of the referent but technology implementations may create independent objects to represent a facet.
An instance of a facet must also have a type that is not a facet to provide the identity of the instance.
The type(s) a facet may categorize may be constrained by a Facet Generalization Constraint. E.g. Policeman is a role of a person.

[Guarino1994] Non-Substantial sortal
[Guizzard] Non-Rigid Universal: A universal G is non-rigid iff for a w ∈ W There is an x such that x ∈ extw(G), and there is a w’∈ W such that x ∉extw’(G)

[SOWA1999] Prehension (Relative

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A Facet Classification Constraint asserts that the specialized type is "non rigid" with respect to the general (rigid) type - that is the <has specific> type may change over the lifetime of instances of the <has general> type. The <has specific> type will be inferred to be a Facet. e.g. "Registered voter" is a facet of a person.

[FIBO] isPlayedBy

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Facet of entity is the binding of a particular entity to a facet. May also be considered an "as a" relationship. In the case of a role, it states that an entity plays the role, e.g. "Joe as a policeman". In the case of a phase, it states that an entity has that phase and that it is a phase of that entity, e.g. Sue as a teenager.
Facet of Entity is a kind of contextual categorization in that the entity assumes all of the characteristics of the facet where the Facet of Entity is asserted. E.g. if Joe has a policeman role, Joe is a policeman.

Facet of entity is an "Extent of Type" association reified as a relationship in that the binding of the entity to the facet may be valid in particular context or time frame. Facet of entity may be the consequence of a relationship. Note: Not represented as an association class due to OMG-MOF limitations.

Facet of entity may only relate entities that have a type compatible with the type of the facet, as defined by a Facet Classification Rule.

[FIBO] (for roles of actors) AgentInRole.
[FIBO] (for roles of anything else) ThingInRole
[Guarino1994] Externally Dependent Moment (Also called "Qua individual")
[SOWA1999] Prehension

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An actor able to provide an ability to another actor. e.g., Joe has supervisor rights to a database.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] FacilityType: A building, place, or structure that provides a particular service.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The Fahrenheit scale in which 32° represents the ice point and 212° the steam point. of water Symbol: F.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier for purposes of making financial transactions, such as a credit card number or bank account.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of volume: 16 fluid ounces = 1 pint (pt)
= 28.875 cubic inches.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A property variable of a pattern representing the extent of the subject type within the context of the owning pattern.
The value of qualification shall be "Select".
The <has type> of the variable is asserted be the same as the subject type of the pattern.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A foot (pl. feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Since 1959, both units have been defined by international agreement as equivalent to 0.3048 meters exactly. In both systems, the foot comprises 12 inches and three feet compose a yard.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: (Physical) force is an influence that causes mass to accelerate. It may be experienced as a lift, a push, or a pull.
Force is defined by Newton's Second Law as F = m · a, where F is force, m is mass and a is acceleration. Net force is mathematically equal to the time rate of change of the momentum of the body on which it acts. Since momentum is a vector quantity (has both a magnitude and direction).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Repetitions per unit of time. e.g., Hertz.

[IDEAS] Frequency: A MeasureInstance whose instances are individuals' that all oscillate at the same frequency

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An element of an expression that performs some operation based on a function type and produces a result. I.e. plus(a,1).
Arguments are bound to the function call via bindings.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A declaration of a function which performs a calculation on arguments (properties) to produce a result (function result). I.e. the definition of plus(a:Number, b:Number).

Functions are intended to be side-effect free and context free (they only depend on their arguments and don't change anything) but assertions to specify that certain functions are pure may be required,
Note: FUNCTION ARGUMENTS ARE PROPERTIES of the function.

[FUML] Operation where ownedParameter corresponds with <has property> and type corresponds with <resulting type>.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of volume.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A measure of the quantity of a substance. 1 gallon (gal) = 231 cubic inches.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A Type Generalization Constraint is a taxonomic relationship between a more general <has general> type and a more specific <has specific> type. Each instance of the specific type is also an instance of the general type.

The extent (<categorizes> property) of the specific type is the same as or a subset of the extent of the more general type. Therefore, any statement that is true for all members of a supertype must also be true for all members of any subtype.

Note that "multiple inheritance" is supported.

[IDEAS] superSubtype: A couple relating two Types which asserts that one type is a subset of the other.

[ISO 1087] generic relation: genus-species relation relation between two concepts (3.2.1) where the intension (3.2.9) of one of the concepts includes that of the other concept and at least one additional delimiting characteristic (3.2.7)

[FIBO] Inheritance

[UML] Generalization

[Guizzardi] (Specialization relation): Let F and G be two universals such that F is a specialization of G. Then, for all w ∈ W we have that extw(F) ⊆ extw(G)

[OWL] Union(SubClassOf, SubPropertyOf)

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An organization which is the governing body of a nation, state, tribe or community.
[FIBO] GeopoliticalEntity (In FIBO this is a subclass of Physical Location. In Threat/risk Geopolitical Region is a role of a physical location. FIBO combines Geopolitical Entity with Geopolitical Region).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A code, ID or administered name for a geopolitical entity with governmental authority e.g., city, state, county, tribe.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A physical location governed by a geopolitical entity.
[FIBO] GeopoliticalEntity (In FIBO this is a subclass of Physical Location. In Threat/risk Geopolitical Region is a role of a physical location. FIBO combines Geopolitical Entity with Geopolitical Region.
[NIEM] LocaleType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A goal state is a step in a scenario that directly impacts resources of a stakeholder, thereby impacting the goals of the same or a different stakeholder. Goal states may be positive (e.g. making more money) or negative (e.g. an attack target).
A goal state is usually but not necessarily the end state of a scenario.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The gram is a SI unit of mass.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NRC] One of the two units used to measure the amount of radiation absorbed by an object or person, known as the "absorbed dose," which reflects the amount of energy that radioactive sources (with any type of ionizing radiation) deposit in materials (e.g., water, tissue, air) through which they pass. One gray (Gy) is the international system of units (SI) equivalent of 100 rads, which is equal to an absorbed dose of 1 Joule/kilogram. An absorbed dose of 0.01 Gy means that 1 gram of material absorbed 100 ergs of energy (a small but measurable amount) as a result of exposure to radiation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A metric to quantify benefit or harm.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of frequency. Cycles per second.

[IDEAS] frequencyInHertz: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a Frequency with its ValueInHertz

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done). There are many different standards and types of horsepower. This model uses the 746 watt interpretation of horsepower.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of time: 60 Minutes.

[DTV] hour: the precise time unit that is quantified by '3600 seconds'

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifiable entity is any identifiable thing other than values, this includes individuals, types, axioms, situations, speech acts, information structures, etc.
Identifiable entities always have some kind of identity and may have identifiers. Note that identity is an abstraction that may have representation in models as any number of identifiers, also known as a "sign".

[OWL] Entity type (Implied in section [OWL] 5.8) as an instance of rdfs:Class

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier is any value that is used to distinguish an entity from other entities. Note that any identifier may be contextualized by one or more context, including language context. Identifiers are a “sign” for an identity where identity is an abstraction of individuality that is the basis for identifiers.

[IDEAS] Name: A Representation that identifies a Thing.
[FIBO] Identifier
[CL] Term: expression which denotes an individual, consisting of either a name or, recursively, a function term applied to a sequence of arguments, which are themselves terms

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Role of an organization that validates identity and issues curated identifiers and credentials for entities.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of length.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An "Include" is an external scope that is visible and asserted by the owning lexical scope.
[FUML] PackageImport
[CL] Importation: An importation contains a name. The intention is that the name identifies a piece of Common Logic content represented externally to the text, and the importation re-asserts that content in the text.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An organization recognized by and incorporated by a recognized government.
[FIBO] FormalOrganization: an organization that is recognized in some legal jurisdiction, with associated rights and responsibilities

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A specific item or service purchased, sold or offered for sale.
[FIBO] Product: A commercially distributed good that is (1) tangible property, (2) the output or result of a fabrication, manufacturing, or production process, or (3) something that passes through a distribution channel before being consumed or used.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action that impacts information objects.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A representation of information, data, facts, assertions or statements about something.
As information may be copied while retaining its identity, the same information copied onto new physical media may be considered the same object. Where the individual representation of information is of concern another object should be used to represent the individual physical thing than holds the information.
As information is a resource it may depend on other resources.
[FIBO] Document
[NIEM] DocumentType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A resource in which information is stored and can then be retrieved.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Metadata defining the origin or provenance of a set of statements in a model or data.
Note that the source could be a human, an organization, a mapping or other automated processes.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A categorization of information across any dimension - content, format, source, sensitivity, etc. e.g. a schema. The information type may be used to establish software capabilities and vulnerabilities.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] A means of contact that provides for the digital electronic transmission of information via the Internet or a private network.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An intersection is a type that has an extent which is the complete intersection of the extents of all supertypes. Intersection is a stronger statement than a subtype as a subtype may not be a complete intersection.

[MathWorld] The intersection of two sets A and B is the set of elements common to A and B. This is written A intersection B, and is pronounced "A intersection B" or "A cap B."

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A IRI/URI Identifier for an entity, as defined in [RFC3987].

[FIBO] anyURI

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An inanimate material object as distinct from a living sentient being.
[NIEM] ItemType
[DOLCE] Non-agentive Physical Object

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The joule (symbol J, also called newton meter, watt second, or coulomb volt) is the SI unit of energy and work.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIST-SI] The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.

[IDEAS] temperatureInKelvin: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a ThermodynamicTemperature with its ValueInKelvin

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI unit for density.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIST-SI] The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram. [NIST-SI]

[IDEAS] massInKilograms: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a Mass with its ValueInKilograms

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI Unit of density.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of length, the SI measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile.
Symbol: km.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI unit of speed

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The watt-hour (symbolized Wh) is a unit of energy equivalent to one watt (1 W) of power expended for one hour (1 h) of time.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The abstract unit of distance (or length) which is the supertype of all length units and also acts as its "quantity kind".

In the International System of Quantities, length is any quantity with dimension distance. In other contexts "length" is the measured dimension of an object.

[IDEAS] Length: A MeasureInstance whose instances are individuals' that all have the same length

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A Lexical Reference is an external scope that is visible to but not necessarily asserted by the owning lexical scope.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Lexical scope represents model content (the lexical structure of the model) that then models an area of concern. A lexical scope may define model elements representing anything.
[CL] Text: A text is a set, list, or bag of phrases. A piece of text shall optionally be identified by a name.
[OWL] Potential scope of a RDF graph defined by <defines>

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] An identification that references a license certification or registration of a person or organization for some purpose.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Volume of a liquid.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The <List First> rules will take the <list> property and place the first element into<first>. If <list> is empty, <first> will be empty.
If there are more <list> elements than 1, all remaining elements are placed as a set in <remainder>.
If <list> is an un-ordered set the order will be indeterminate but repeatable.
<<List First>> is bidirectional and will compute <list> by appending <first> and <remainder>.
Note that this will act like a LISP CDR/CAR pair

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identification assigned at a local level (within an organization or community) to a person or organization.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A code, ID or name for a physical location.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Any identifier able to uniquely identify a physical location
Syn. spatial reference - description of position in the real world [OGC]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A model of information about systems independent of technical representation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An Event that reduces of the ability of an actor.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Luminosity ( or luminous intensity ) is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye. The SI unit of luminous intensity is the candela (cd), an SI base unit.

[IDEAS] LuminousIntensity: A MeasureInstance whose members are individuals' that all have the same luminous intensity

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier managed by an identity provider who asserts the validity of the identifier. This includes technical/cyber identities as well as traditional identifiers such as passport numbers and corporate IDs. Identities can also be provided for systems, such as a SSL certificate.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Any entity for which the custody of or access to the entity is managed such that it can be trusted or protected. A managed entity is in the custody of a custodian via the Custody relation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] An identification inscribed on or attached to a part, collection of parts, or complete unit by the manufacturer. Syn. ItemSerialIdentification.
[FIBO] ProductIdentifier: an identifier for a product

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier for a person managed by some identity provider who asserts the validity of the identifier, frequently but not always a government organization.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier for a social agent where the identifier is managed by some authority.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Role of a thing as being made or manufactured.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: <<MapID>> is a rule where the source is an ID and the target is a class, maps an instance of the ID to an instance of the class.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A mapping is a rule based on a pattern that defines how different representations of the same things correspond. There are two "sub patterns", defined by the concrete and reference variables and other variables reachable from them via characteristics, associations and relationships. These sub-patterns are matched (made to correspond) using "Match Rules"
Patterns define a set of related elements to be mapped based on two distinguished variables, the "concrete body" and the "reference body".
Types in a "concrete" body may be defined to be a representation (data about) a concept in a "reference" pattern.
Match rules define how elements in each of the sub-patterns are mapped, bidirectionally.
A mapping utilizing more specific types subsumes maps for more general types.
Note that the roles of "concrete" and "reference" may or may not reflect different levels of abstraction and in some cases the choice may be arbitrary.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A model defining relationships between other models.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The abstract unit of Mass which is the supertype of all mass units and also acts as its "quantity kind".
The mass of a body is a measure of its inertial property or how much matter it contains. The weight of a body is a measure of the force exerted on it by gravity or the force needed to support it. Gravity on earth gives a body a downward acceleration of about 9.8 m/s2.The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).

[IDEAS] Mass: A MeasureInstance whose members are individuals' that all have the same mass.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ (the lower case Greek letter rho). Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided by volume.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: One end of a mapping from one thing to another that may be qualified with a condition.
The set of elements to be mapped is the union of the sets of all mapped types and mapped variables that conform to the condition.
Match rules are constrained to apply to only conforming types or types that represent the mapped ends (as specified by a representation rule).
Representation rules applied to a supertype apply to a subtype unless a more specific representation rule is specified for the corresponding types.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A rule that the 2 ends represent the same things or information about a thing.
Redundant mappings are ignored and identity is preserved across all mappings.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [BMM] A means represents any device, capability, regime, technique, restriction, agency, instrument, or method that may be called upon, activated, or enforced to achieve Ends.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Information about the source, provenance or origin of information. Metadata may be a managed entity, providing for provenance.
[NIEM] MetadataType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.[NIST-SI]

The meter, (SI unit symbol: m), is the fundamental unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

[IDEAS] lengthInMeters: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a Mass with its ValueInKilograms

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI Unit of acceleration.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A standard for measuring or evaluating something in a quantifiable way.
Typical representations of a metric may be a fraction from zero to 1 or a rating such as "high, medium, low". Not to be confused with the "Metric System".

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The mile is an English unit of length standardized as exactly 1.609344 kilometers.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: U.S. unit of speed.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter and equivalent to 0.03937 inch.
Abbreviation: mm.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of time: 1/1000th of a second.

[DTV] millisecond

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of time: 60 seconds.

[DTV] minute : the precise time unit that is quantified by '60 seconds'

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A core objective of an enterprise.

[BMM] A Mission indicates the ongoing operational activity of the enterprise. The Mission describes what the business is or will be doing on a day-to-day basis.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A root package. A model has no owner and may be directly referenced as an independent information resource. A model is defined in it's self.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Action to change information (for good or bad reasons).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Action to modify a resource or set of resources.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A particular way or method an actor typically does something, especially one that is characteristic or well-established. It may or may not have a formal definition of the process.
In threat terms, a particular tactic, technique or procedure for achieving a result.
Syn. TTP [STIX]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, defined as the amount of any substance that contains as many elementary entities (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of pure carbon-12.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI unit for amount-of-substance concentration.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [DTV] month: the nominal time unit that is the duration of a time interval required for one rotation of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth, approximated to a number of days.
[OWL] xsd:gMonth

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A Multiplicity constraint constrains the number of bindings <multiplicity of> types (including property types) may have in a particular instance of the constrained type.

For a property type, The number of instances bound to a property for the set of instances bound to <with respect to> shall be limited by the minimum and maximum number of the multiplicity.

For non-property types, the multiplicity shall apply to the extent of the type as described by <classifies>.

[IDEAS] superSubType

[FUML] MultiplicityElement: Note: Multiplicity Constraint constraining a type has semantics included in to UML MultiplicityElement.

[OWL] Union(ObjectMaxCardinality, ObjectMinCardinality, ObjectExactCardinality, DataMaxCardinality, DataMinCardinality, DataExactCardinality)

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. Names are not necessarily unique.

[IDEAS] Name: A Representation that identifies a Thing.

[CL] Discourse Name

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A namespace is a context that provides a way to make identifiers unique and identify exactly one entity. For example, the Virginia driver's license division provides unique driver's license numbers.

Similar to [IDEAS] UniqueNamingScheme: A NamingScheme where different Names will not contain tokens of the same Representation Type.
Note: SMIF identifiers are not instances of their namespace.

[FIBO] IdentificationScheme: system for allocating identifiers to objects

[ISO 1087] terminology 1: set of designations (3.4.1) belonging to one special language (3.1.3)

[FUML] Namespace

[CL] Vocabulary

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A value used to identify a node in an electronic network.
[NIEM] ElectronicAddressType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI unit of force. Equivalent to 100,000 dynes. A Newton is equal to the force that would give a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second per second.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An operation bound to a specific "receiver" in the "Object Oriented" sense.
[FUML] Operation

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An aim or goal that a stakeholder intends to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target.
[BMM] End: something that is to be accomplished.
[BMM] Objective: An Objective is a statement of an attainable, time-targeted, and measurable target that the enterprise seeks to meet in order to achieve its Goals.
[FIBO] Objective

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A tools that assists in observations. e.g. a wireless microphone is used to observe a conversation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Role of an actor that can or has observed something

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An Event that increases the resources available to an actor.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An Occurrence is something that happens (a.k.a. occurs). A dynamic situation (past, present or future) composed of a set of things changing over a period of time. e.g., a rock falling.
Events are not limited in their timeframe. Events can have long or short timeframes, from an instant to infinity and beyond.
An Event that is "performed by" an actor is considered an activity.

[DOLCE] Perdurant

[BFO] Event: perdurant that is related to exactly two states (its pre-state and its post-state).
An event is related to the states before and after it has happened.

[NIEM] ActivityType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A process pattern is a template and definition for a family of Events (i.e. actions, events) that results in an outcome. A process may be natural or caused by the activities of actors, in which case it is a plan.
A process may contain other entities, sub-processes and situations to define characteristics and sub-processes of the process. The sub-processes may or may not be known, sub-processes are defined using "Temporal Part".
[ISO 14971:2007] set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Action to gain visibility to some information, e.g., Open a file or an envelope.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An opportunity is any potential future situation having beneficial consequences.
[BMM] Opportunity: This category of Assessment indicates that some Influencer can have a favorable impact on the organization’s employment of Means or achievement of Ends. For example, the bankruptcy of Pizza Company’s major competitor in Region-Y is assessed to be an Opportunity in its Goal “To increase market share.”

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A composite condition that is true (occurring) when any "affected by" is true - OR

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An Organization  is a group of persons and/or other actors and resources organized for some end or work
[FIBO] Organization: a social unit of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or pursue collective goals on a continuing basis.
[NIEM] OrganizationType
[DOLCE] Society

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Organizational unit is a role that encompasses subdivisions, departments, subsidiaries and other organizational parts of an organization.
[BMM] organization unit: An administrative or functional unit within an organization structure.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: U.S. Unit of Ounce representing Mass.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An owned property binding defines a value for a particular property of a particular owning property type (or structure).
Similar to an OWL triple, an owned property binding does not have independent identity.
Constraint: Each owned property binding must be <bound by> an owned property type that is owned by the <has type> owned type of the <bound to> property owner.

Owned property type is abstract and not intended to directly represent semantic elements.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An owned property type is a property definition defined as a composite part of an association type - most often used in data structures and relationships. Association property types are the types of association property bindings. Also known as "association end".

[FIBO] Relationship Property
[FUML] memberEnd (of association) Property

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Role of an actor that owns property.
[FIBO] Owner: A party in the ownership role; one that owns something. The thing owned is an Asset to that Party.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A model element that provides a definitional scope for other model elements. A package may be represented as a "graph".

[ISO 1087] concept system: system of concepts set of concepts (3.2.1) structured according to the
relations among them

[FUML] Package. FUML ownedMember corresponds with SMIF <defines>. FUML "nestedPackage" corresponds with "defines" where the element defined is a package.

[CL] Module: A module consists of a name, an optional set of names called the exclusion set, and a text called the body text.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Organization with component parts such as divisions and departments.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A pattern property variable representing a part of the subject type. Additional relations and rules may be made about the part. A type with parts is by its nature a composition.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The SI unit of pressure, equal to one newton per square meter (approximately 0.000145 pounds per square inch, or 9.9 × 10-6 atmospheres).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] PersonPassportIdentification (property): An identification of a passport issued to a person.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A situation that has actually occurred in the past (recognizing that all such statements are subject to confidence).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A pattern represents a set of assertions true about individuals or sets of individuals qualified by pattern properties. All propositions asserted or negated by a pattern (as a context) are considered "templates" where identity is not required to match.

The structure of the pattern is defined by the properties and asserted (sub) situations (including relationships) that are asserted by the pattern.

In many cases the relationships and rules defined for a pattern will reference pattern properties. These relationships will hold for instances of the pattern where things are bound to the pattern properties.

[DTV] general situation kind: situation kind that is not an individual situation kind. A situation kind is a general situation kind if it can be exemplified by more than one Event in some possible world, even when it cannot have more than one Event in the possible world chosen to be the universe of discourse.

[UML] StructuredClassifier. Also Similarity with TemplateSignature

[OWL] May be used to represent Class Expressions

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A pattern match provides the corespondents between a pattern and the situations it matches using variable bindings.
A pattern match implies and proves that the pattern <categorizes> the situation.
The matched pattern <states> any consequences of the matching, such as the pattern <categorizes> the pattern instance.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A pattern of type defines a set of properties and relationships that must hold true for all instances of a type. Where the pattern includes parts, the subject type is a composition.
Patterns augment the semantics of th subject type in the context of the pattern.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A pattern variable is a property of a pattern that provides a contextual property within that pattern for rules and relationships to be bound to.
A pattern variable is a placeholder for all or a subset of the instances of the variables type.
Properties of an association or relationship may be bound to a pattern variable where the type of the pattern variable is compatible with the type of the relationship's property type.

[UML] Similarity with TemplateParameter
[CL] Functional Term

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action that pauses a process instance such that it can be restarted.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A performer is an actor that is a resource to another entity as the performer of activities.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An individual human being.
[FIBO] Person
[NIEM] PersonType
[DOLCE] (Subtype of) Agentive Physical Object

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Text identifying a person by a recognized name.
[FIBO] hasFullLegalName (More specific concept)
[NIEM] PersonNameType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A full name of a person in a structured form.
Note: Conversion between structured and textual names is provided by the implementation and is not defined in this specification.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A phase (or state) is a static characteristic of something that exists for limited time(s). Something takes on or looses a phase as a result of some event. E,g, Teenager, living, closed invoice.
A Phase is a situation in that there is a situation coincident with each phase.

[Guizzardi] (Phased-Sortal): Let PS be a universal and let S be a
substance sortal specialized (restricted by) PS. Now, let extw(~PS) = extw(S) \ extw(PS)
be the complement of the extension of PS in world w. In this formula, the
symbol \ represents the set theoretical operation of set difference. The
universal PS is a phased-sortal iff for all worlds w ∈ W, there is a w’ ∈ W such
that extw(PS) ∩ extw’(~PS) ≠ ∅

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A physical thing or location that contains other physical things or locations.
[DOLCE] Spacial Location

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A thing that exists in space and time including people, places, and things.

[DOLCE] Object

[IDEAS] Individual: A Thing that has spatio-temporal extent.

Note1 - this may be some that existed in the past, exists now, or may exist in some future possible world.

Note2 - the Individual may be scattered - i.e. it is the fusion of several disconnect parts.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Physical features are spacial entities which are generically constantly dependent on physical objects (their hosts). Typical examples of features are “parasitic entities” such as holes, boundaries, surfaces, or stains. Physical features do not have mass independent of their host.
[DOLCE] Feature

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A point or extent in physical space.

[NIEM] A geospatial location.
[FIBO] PhysicalLocation: A location in physical space

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A physical, technology specific, data schema representing information about a real or possible world.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A dimensionless physical point in space or on the surface of the earth such as a corner or center point.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A measurable property of a physical object.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An physical item intended to be used to perform some function.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Unit of liquid volume: 2 pints = 1 quart (qt) = 57.75 cubic inches.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A building or locality used or intended for a specific purpose such as a house or factory.
[FIBO] Facility: something that is built, contrived, established, or installed to serve a particular purpose, or make some course of action or operation easi-er, or provide some capability or service

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A plan is a design for a process that supports a stakeholders objectives. As a process definition a plan is a pattern for a series of activities as well as the resources required to meet objectives.
Scenario's are observed where as plans are designed.
[BMM] Course of Action: A Course of Action is an approach or plan for configuring some aspect of the enterprise involving things, processes, locations, people, timing, or motivation undertaken to achieve Desired Results. In other words, a Course of Action channels efforts towards Desired Results. To help ensure success in this regard, Courses of Action are governed by Directives.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A point that defines a location on earth where the point is within the bounds of <designates location>.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A policy is a thing that is compulsory; a necessary condition.
A statement that identifies a necessary attribute, capability, characteristic, or quality of a system for it to have value and utility to a customer, organization, internal user, or other stakeholder. The constrained parties are identified as the <constrains> responsible performer(s).

A policy is a means in that it fulfills a broader objective. A policy is an objective in that performers seek to comply with the objective. A policy is a state in that it is a situation that exists for a finite period of time.

Policies include requirements.

[BMM] Business policy: directive that is concerned with directly controlling, influencing, or regulating the actions of an enterprise and the people in it and that is not directly enforceable

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: All possible effects to an entity.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An address able to be used to deliver physical mail which may or may not represent a static physical location.
[FIBO] PPostalAddress: a physical address where postal communications can be addressed, for any kind of organization or person.
[NIEM] AddressType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A structured representation of a postal address.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A textual representation of a postal address.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A code defined for the purposes of delivering physical mail to a set of addresses. "Zip code" in the U.S.
[OGC] An address component which represents the identification of a subdivision of addresses and postal delivery points in a country, region or city for postal purposes.
[FIBO] PostalCodeArea

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A situation that has not yet happened but has a potential to happen.

DTV: Situation Kind

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Pound-force is equal to the gravitational force exerted on a mass of one avoirdupois pound on the surface of Earth.
Standard gravity is not constant but usually taken to be 9.80665 m/s2 (about 32.174 049 ft/s2) in the context of the surface of the earth.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of mass that is exactly 453.59237 grams.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The pound avoirdupois, which forms the basis of the U.S. customary system of mass, is defined as exactly 453.59237 grams.
The avoirdupois pound is legally defined as a measure of mass, but the name pound is also applied to measures of force.
See also: http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/upload/frn-59-5442-1959.pdf

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: (Physical) power is the rate at which work is performed or energy is transmitted, or the amount of energy required or expended for a given unit of time. As a rate of change of work done or the energy of a subsystem, power is: P = W/t where P is power W is work t is time.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The role of an actor making predictions.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A technical abbreviation for a package.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A quantity kind representing the continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Contact identifiers valid within a private network.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A metric that represents the possibility that something uncertain will happen.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action impacting a potential or realized process.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Maker of goods or products, usually for sale. Syn: Manufacturer.
[FIBO] Producer: the manufacturer of a product, also called maker.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A set of similar items or services produced by or delivered by suppliers.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A set of projects, activities, or services of an organization that are intended to meet a need.
[NIEM] ProgramType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Role of an entity which has an owner.
[FIBO] Asset: A thing held by some party and having some value.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A property value binding binds a particular thing (the value) to a situation based on a defined property.

Where <binds> is an expression evaluation, the property value shall evaluate to the evaluation of the expression.

Where <binds> is a property, the property value shall be the property values bound to that property in <bound to> situation.

The bound to thing must conform with the <is of type> type of the property. If the bound individual conforms to the "requires type" of the property, the <is of type> of the bound thing will be asserted.

The type of the <bound to> structure must (directly or indirectly) have the type the <bound by> properties <property of> type.

[FUML] Slot (Noting that in SMIF the binding may or may not be owned by the subject, depending on the subtype of property).

[CL] Binding:

[OWL] Union(ObjectPropertyAssertion, DataPropertyAssertion, AnnotationAssertion), RDF Triple
=Note: RDF Triples do not have identity where as some subtypes of SMIF:Property Type do have identity and are therefor statements.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Abstract supertype for constraints that constrain properties types.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Property Owner is an abstract element for anything that may own a set of property bindings. This element is abstract and not intended to directly represent domain concepts. Subtypes of property owner provide semantic interpretation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A type of Property Owner (See Property Owner for details) which defines a set of "Owned Property Types" which are the types of owned property bindings.
Property owner is abstract and not intended to directly represent semantic elements.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A transitive property defined by <constrains> interlinks two individuals A and C whenever it interlinks A with B and B with C for some individual B.
For example "larger than" is transitive in that if Joe is larger than Sue and Sue is Larger then Sam, then Joe is larger than Sam.
[OWL] TransitionObjectProperty

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A property type defines the way in which instances of a type participate in (or, are involved in) instances of another type (including relationships). Sometimes called a variable, argument or role.
In a conceptual model the terms associated with a property kind are typically "verb phrases" defining how instances of the involved type participate in the situation or relationship.
In a record (data structure) the property is a "slot" of a record and may have a term which is a noun or verb phrase.
So that constraints of a type flow to relationships involving that type: All propositions that hold within a type referenced by <is of type> hold within the structured type referenced by <property of>. I.e. the structured type is in the context of the types of its properties.
In a function, a property is a function argument.

[Guizzardi] MomentUniversal

[FUML] Parameter where owner is operation. Otherwise Property.

[UML] Property. All typed elements in SMIF are Property Types.

[CL] Operator: distinguished syntactic role played by a specified component within a functional term

[OWL] rdf:Property, ObjectUnionOf(owl:ObjectProperty, oe;DatatypeProperty).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A property type constraint defines the type(s) of a property.
All elements bound to a property must have the type <is of type>. <is of type> may be pre-existing or inferred based on the value of <prerequisite type>.
Note that Property Type Constraint is a rule independent of the definition of a property to allow for the type of a property to be refined in a more restrictive context.

[FUML] TypedElement.type: Note: A property type constraint applied to a property has the same semantics as a UML TypedElement.

[OWL] Union( AllValuesFrom, SomeValuesFrom, DataPropertyRange, ObjectPropertyRange)). <is of type> corresponds to rdfs:Range. <constrains> corresponds to rdfs:Domain (note that in an association type or relationship type with two property types, the range will be the domain of the "opposite" property, if any).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A proposition is statement, or condition with a truth value (true or false) that can be determined or asserted with some level of confidence (assessment of confidence being outside of this specification).
All "facts", statements, speech acts, relationships and rules are propositions.
Propositions may be asserted to be true within a context which they <holds within>.
For a situation, the proposition is true if the situation is actual (i.e., takes place, obtains).

[SBVR] the state of affairs is posited by the proposition and if the state of affairs were actual, the proposition would be true
[CL] Sentence: unit of logical text which is true or false, i.e. which is assigned a truth-value in an interpretation
[SOWA1999] Proposition

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A proposition variable utilizes some proposition (e.g. relationships) as a part of the definition of a pattern, it extends a basic proposition in that it adds properties to determine the effect the assertion has on pattern instances.
A Proposition Variable is a lexical scope context that <asserts> or <negates> other propositions qualified by <has strength> and <explicit>. As a lexical scope it may "own" the asserted propositions.
Proposition Variable is often used with associations and relationships to define the way pattern properties are related to other pattern properties or actual entities.
For a pattern associations, [UML] Connector. (type = has type). Each ConnectorEnd corresponds with a Structured Property Binding.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Unit of pounds per square inch.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [JCGM 200:2008] A Quantity Kind is an aspect common to mutually comparable quantities represented by one or more units. Units with a common quantity kind may be algorithmically converted to any other unit of that quantity kind. e.g. temperature.

Quantity kinds are a supertype of unit types which are then a type of all quantity values, Quantity values are mutually comparable with all other quantity values categorized by the same quantity kind.

[FIBO] QuantityKind: a categorization type for “quantity” that characterizes quantities as being mutually comparable

[DOLCE] Quality Space

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Unit of liquid volume where 4 quarts = 1 gallon (gal) = 231 cubic inches [NIST-UNITS].

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of an angle where there are 2 PI radians in a circle.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: One of the two units used to measure the amount of radiation absorbed by an object or person, known as the “absorbed dose,” which reflects the amount of energy that radioactive sources deposit in materials through which they pass. The radiation-absorbed dose (rad) is the amount of energy (from any type of ionizing radiation) deposited in any medium (e.g., water, tissue, air). An absorbed dose of 1 rad means that 1 gram of material absorbed 100 ergs of energy (a small but measurable amount) as a result of exposure to radiation. The related international system unit is the gray (Gy), where 1 Gy is equivalent to 100 rad. For additional information, see Doses in Our Daily Lives and Measuring Radiation. [NRC]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A measure of exposure to radiation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Identifier for contact via radio.
[NIEM] ContactRadioType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Radioactivity is a quantity kind that refers to the amount of ionizing radiation released by a material. Whether it emits alpha or beta particles, gamma rays, x-rays, or neutrons, a quantity of radioactive material is expressed in terms of its radioactivity (or simply its activity), which represents how many atoms in the material decay in a given time period. The units of measure for radioactivity are the curie (Ci) and Becquerel (Bq).

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action to read, access, or understand some information.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A record of the condition of an entity at a point in time - this includes facts, speech acts and DBMS records.
Records are typically used in data representations, not conceptual models. Records specialize associations as owners of properties.

[IDEAS] A Representation that describes a Thing

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Type of the record of the condition of an entity at a point in time - this includes facts, speech acts and DBMS records.
A record type may involve variant and invariant types as variables. Those that are enumerated in a "uniqueness constraint" are invariant (independent variables) uniquely identify the situation which is the subject of the fact type where as the other variables may change over time (dependent variables).
Record types may be grounded in atomic relations by using invariant conditions.
Record types represent typical "data structures".

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] An identification of a person based on a regional ID.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A relationship defines a situation involving related things. A relationship may be asserted within a context as true or false within that context. Each relationship type has a number of bindings of which do not change for the life of the relationship..
A relationship may be true or false within its context (including a timeframe) but is atomic in its truth value.
Relationships may participate in (be bound to) other relationships and as such bindings involving a relationship may change over time. That is, relationships are "first class" objects.

[IDEAS] tuple: A relationship between two or more things.
Note: SMIF allows one end of a relationship.

[OWL] An OWL class that is a subclass of SMIF: Relationship

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A relationship type defines a type of condition, the relationship, involving related things. A relationship may be asserted within a context as true or false within that context. Each relationship type has a number of <has property> "structured property type" properties which describe the role of the related things with respect to the relationship, values of which uniquely do not change for the life of the relationship.
A relationship may be true or false within its context (including a timeframe) but is atomic in its truth value.
Relationships may participate in (be bound to) other relationships and as such bindings involving a relationship may change over time.
The terms for properties of a relationship in a conceptual model are typically verb phrases, connecting the relationship with the related types.

[FIBO] A kind of Mediating Thing

[IDEAS] TupleType: The Powertype of tuple.

[FUML] Association where memberEnd corresponds with <has property>. Note that SMIF relationships are "first class" and may also be considered to correspond to an association class where there are any properties or other relationships referencing the subject relationship.

[UML] AssociationClass (note that "end ownership" is meaningless in SMIF).

[Guizzardi2015] Relator: endurants of a special kind, with the power of connecting (mediating) other endurants. Note: Guissardi "mediation" corresponds with relationship properties.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A coordinate described relative to another. e.g., 5 miles west of the empire state building.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The transfer (send/receive) of something between containers or locations. As an Event, the move may be initiated by an actor different from the sender/receiver or may not be caused by an actor.
Examples include movement of a vehicle from one location to another or movement of supplies between warehouses.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An event that removes things from containers or locations. This results in the termination of a containment relationship.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action to remove information from some repository or composite information structure.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A representation rule states that the <represented type> has a representation defined by the <represented by> type.
Representation rules are used to filter Map Rules such that only represented concepts may be mapped.
A representation is usually complimented with one or more mapping rules.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A place where people live/reside.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A resource is a role of an entity required for or helpful to any operation, activity, process or capability - directly or indirectly. Sometimes called an "asset".

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action impacting a potential or realized resource/asset.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A response is an activity performed by an actor as a reaction to (caused by) another situation.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A unit of exposure to ionizing radiation. It is the amount of gamma or x-rays required to produce ions resulting in a charge of 0.000258 coulombs/kilogram of air under standard conditions. [NRC]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: One of the two standard units used to measure the dose equivalent (or effective dose), which combines the amount of energy (from any type of ionizing radiation that is deposited in human tissue), along with the medical effects of the given type of radiation. For beta and gamma radiation, the dose equivalent is the same as the absorbed dose. By contrast, the dose equivalent is larger than the absorbed dose for alpha and neutron radiation, because these types of radiation are more damaging to the human body. Thus, the dose equivalent (in rems) is equal to the absorbed dose (in rads) multiplied by the quality factor of the type of radiation [see Title 10, Section 20.1004, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 20.1004), "Units of Radiation Dose"]. The related international system unit is the sievert (Sv), where 100 rem is equivalent to 1 Sv. [NRC]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A role is a facet type that defines a specific purpose or behavior of a class of things. E.g. teacher, policeman, or employer.
[FIBO] Role. Note that partyInRole or thingInRole are implied by classification of a thing.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A rule is a proposition that constrains one or more entities by limiting possible conditions or producing some effect.
Note that rules may or may not be defined in the same context that they hold within or constraint. This support the "open world assumption" that a rule may be asserted outside of the scope of the rule or what the rule is constraining.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: <<Rule Computation>> is an abstract supertype for a facade that includes external implementation. The implementation is outside of this specification.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Number and time unit together giving magnitude of a duration.

[DTV]
Definition:if the atomic duration value is a precise atomic duration value, then the time unit is the reference duration to which the ratio of the duration quantified by the atomic duration value is taken
Definition:if the atomic duration value is a nominal atomic duration value, then the time unit is the reference duration to which the ratio of exactly one element of the duration value set specified by the atomic duration value is taken
Example:“45 minutes” has the time unit ‘minute’

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition:

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A scenario is a process pattern that provides template for a set of steps (may be but are not always activities) and resource that formally or informally depict how things may happen based on observations of similar occurrences. Scenarios are intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive.
Scenarios are described by at least one scenarios steps, one of which must provide a goal state.
Scenarios include attack/defense and fault trees.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A scenario step is a node in one or more scenarios that ultimately result in consequences.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIST-SI] The second (symbol: s) is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) and is also a unit of time in other systems of measurement (abbreviated s or sec); it is the second division of the hour by sixty, the first division by 60 being the minute.

[DTV] second: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.

[IDEAS] Second: A measureNamedNumericallyBy that names a Time with its ValueInSeconds

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier of an item provided by its producer or supplier.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: The international system (SI) unit for dose equivalent equal to 1 Joule/kilogram. 1 sievert = 100 rem. Named for physicist Rolf Sievert.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A situation is an identifiable entity composed of an arrangement of entities and the relations between them over a time interval. Situations are propositions and may be asserted as true or false in some context. Situations may change over time, unless otherwise constrained. As an identifiable entity, situations may participate in relationships, thus situations are "first class" elements in SMIF.

[SBVR] "State of affairs"
[SOWA1999] Nexus

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A situation type defines a kind of identifiable arrangement of individuals, assertions and the relations between them over a timespan. As an identifiable entity, situations may participate in other situations and relationships by being bound to properties of those situations or relationships with bindings, thus situations are “first class” entities in a SMIF model.
The roles or behaviors things (any entity or value) may play in a situation are identified as properties of the situation type.
Entity types and roles may also be situation types.
Syn. Type of a state of affairs.
A situation type may have properties such that instances, may bind things to structures based on properties.
Things may be bound to a structure (i.e. play a role in the structure) via properties. Things bound to properties of a structure may change over time, unless otherwise constrained.

[DTV] situation kind: state of affairs that may or may not happen in some possible world

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An actor that may have responsibilities - people and organizations. Actors in general may include automated entities and even, in some context, animals. Social agent excludes these other kinds of actors by including (at this time) only people and organizations.
What responsibilities a particular person or organization may have at any particular time is the subject of law and social constructs. A social agent is distinguished in that a person or organization may have such responsibilities in their lifetime.
[NIEM] EntityType
[DOLCE] Social Agent

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Contact information to be used via a social network.
[NIEM] InstantMessageType
--InstanceMessengerServiceName = <has name>
--InstanceMessengerScreenId = "electronic address"

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [NIEM] PersonSSNIdentification (property): A unique identification reference to a living person; assigned by the United States Social Security Administration.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Programs and other operating information used by a computer to control its function through the definition of a process.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Any point that uniquely identifies a spacial location relative to a coordinate system.

One of a sequence of n numbers designating the position of a point in n-dimensional space [OGC]

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A thing that exists in space: The union of locations and physical entities.
[DOLCE] Physical Endurant

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A Quantity kind representing distance per unit of time.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Area measured in feet.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Area measured in SI meters.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A stakeholder is a responsible performer having objectives and promoting the means for achieving those objectives.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A state is a static situation - a particular configuration of entities that is static for a time period, including spatial and logical connections between those things {Snapshot of a Perdurant}
Note that states may be of any length, from an instant to infinity and beyond.

[DOLCE] State

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Statements provide metadata as to the source of information - who or what said it.
This source of the information may be captured using "InformationSource" metadata about the metadata.

[ISO11404] provision that conveys information

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An action to terminate a process.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An information object that contains sub-elements. e.g., a "record".

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A value that may have sub-elements (owned properties) defined as "structure property type".

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A structured value type is a type of value that has parts represented as properties - also used for "data types" and forms.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A role of a system as a part of another system as a resource to the owning system.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: <<Summarize>> is a rule that produces a natural language description of an element. Summarize may not be bi-directional and is expected to have information loss.
<summary> is a summary of <element>.
Content of summary is implementation specific.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A person or organization that sells products or services.
[FIBO] a party that supplies goods or services

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [OMG MDA Guide] A system is a collection of parts and relationships among these parts that may be organized to accomplish some purpose.
[UAF] An integrated set of elements, subsystems, or assemblies that accomplish a defined objective. These elements include products (hardware, software, firmware), processes, people, information, techniques, facilities, services, and other support elements .
A system is a situation in that it has constituent parts working together for a finite period.
A system is a means in that it may achieve objectives for stakeholders.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: [JCGM 200:2008] A set of base units and derived units, together with their multiples and submultiples, defined in accordance with given rules, for a given system of quantities.

[FIBO] SystemOfUnits: a set of measurement units associated with a system of quantities, together with a set of rules that assign one measurement unit to be the base unit for each base quantity in the system of quantities and a set of rules for the derivation of other units from the base units

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: An identifier assigned to a person or organization by a tax authority.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A technical identifier is defined within a technical system, information structure or system of systems for references and identity within that system or information element. Such identifiers may have no meaning outside of that system.

Typical technical identifiers include inter document "refs", record numbers, etc. The system should be referenced as the namespace.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A device for human to human communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, computer networks, or broadcasting.
[NIEM] TelecommunicationsDeviceType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A three-digit number that identifies one of the telephone service regions into which the US, Canada, and certain other countries are divided and that is dialed when calling from one area to another.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: 2 digit Telephone codes for contacting people and organizations within countries.

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: A way to contact an actor via a telephone.
[NIEM] TelephoneNumberType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Structured representation of a telephone number.
[NIEM] NANPTelephoneNumberType & InternationalTelephoneNumberType

Model-Generated Definition:

Definition: Unstructured (text) representation of a telephone number.
[NIEM] FullTelephoneNumberType

Model-Generated Definition: