Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
of all the ODP standards freely available as part of the X series of recommen-
dations from
http://www.itu.int/itu-t/recommendations/index.html
.
A good source of news and general information is the ODP website at
http://www.rm-odp.net/
, which provides links to current activities. You can
also download the model for our running example from the authors' website at
http://theodpbook.lcc.uma.es/
. This goes into more detail of the model
than is outlined throughout the topic and brought together in appendix A.
There are not enough other topics on ODP, but two notable ones are
Blair and Stefani [52], which deals with ODP largely from a computational
perspective, with emphasis on its use with real-time and multimedia systems,
and Putman [88], which works through the detailed concepts, following the
structure of the reference model closely.
16.2
Integration of Other Standards
The ODP reference model provides a conceptual framework, but concrete
notations are needed to express viewpoint specications. In this topic, we have
given pride of place to UML, but there are many other notations that can be
positioned and used within the framework. Some well-known standards from
the OMG that could be used are:
The Business Process Model and Notation, BPMN [40], which provides
a graphical notation for expressing business processes, and so is a can-
didate notation for representing enterprise community behaviour.
The Business Motivation Model, BMM [37], which provides a set of
concepts for expressing goals and objectives and so could be used to
express enterprise community objectives.
The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules, SBVR [33],
which says how business vocabularies, facts and rules can be expressed
and could be used to express business-oriented types, in either the en-
terprise or information viewpoints.
16.3
Uses of ODP
This section sketches a number of representative examples of areas in which
the ODP framework has been used. There are many more such examples, and
pointers to some of these can be found on the ODP website or in the academic
