Discussion about MFI8: Metamodel for Role and Goal Registration

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Discussion about MFI-8 Metamodel for Role and
Goal Registration

• Wang Jian, He Keqing,
• He Yangfan, Wang Chong
• SKLSE, Wuhan University, P.R. China
• 2009.11.18

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Motivation

• In the development of local and distributed
  information systems, roles and goals are two
  important factors.
• Roles can be used to identify the objectives of
  the system, and express the preferential
  requirements of users.
• Goals provide a way for describing business
  processes at a higher abstraction level.
• Effective management of roles and goals
  contributes to describing users intention and
  reusing information resources with greater
  granularity.

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Definitions from wikipedia

• A role or a social role is a set of connected
  behaviors, rights and obligations as
  conceptualized by actors in a social situation.
  It is an expected behavior in a given individual
  social status and social position.
• A goal or objective is a projected state of
  affairs that a person or a system plans or
  intends to achievea personal or organizational
  desired end-point in some sort of assumed
  development.

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Definitions in MFI-8

• A role is abstract characterizations of
  organizational behaviours and responsibilities
  within specified organizational context.
• Description of roles will be helpful in
  characterizing goals in a more complete and
  correct way.
• A goal is a descriptive statement of business
  intent of a user or an organization, and it can
  be viewed as an objective that the business
  system under consideration should achieve.

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Scope of MFI-8(1/2)

• Specify a metamodel for registering users
  roles and goals in specific domains that can be
  used to describe users intention.
• Define the decomposition and constraint
  relationships between goals.

From resolution of Wuhan Meeting, September, 2008
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Scope of MFI-8(2/2)
Common Facilities in MFI Part 1-4
Role and Goal Registry based on MFI-8
Registration
Interoperation
BMM

Specification
FOAF
Tropos
RM-ODP
KAOS
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Metamodel of Role and Goal registration
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Relationship with Other Parts in MFI
MFI-2
MFI-3
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Registering role and goal models

• FOAF
• RM-ODP
• BMM
• KAOS
• Tropos

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FOAF(Friend of a Friend)

• FOAF is a machine-readable ontology describing
  persons, their activities, and their
  relationships to other people and objects.
• FOAF allows groups of people to truly open social
  networks without the need for a centralised
  database, which is an important contribution to
  the linked information system known as the Web.

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An Example
Social Profile of an actor in MFI-8
interacts in MFI-8
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Enterprise View in RM-ODP
Enterprise specification determines the purpose,
scope and policies for a system, which consists
of roles and policies with respect to the
reference point.
RM-ODP Reference Model of Open Distributed
Processing
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Organization in MFI-8
Goal/ Decomposition in MFI-8
Actor in MFI-8
Role in MFI-8
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BMM (Business Motivation Model)

• OMGs BMM is developed from a business
  perspective
• To develop a business model for the elements of
  the business plans before system design is begun.

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Metamodel of BMM
Operational Goal in MFI-8
Goal in MFI-8
Role in MFI-8
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Metamodel of KAOS
Role Goal/Personal Goal Decomposition/Constraint
in MFI-8
Actor in MFI-8
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Metamodel of Tropos
Actor and Role in MFI-8
Goal in MFI-8
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Future Work

• Summary
• MFI-8 provides a generic framework for
  registering descriptive information of roles and
  goals
• It aims to promote the reuse of information
  resources with greater granularity.
• Future work
• Harmonization with the other standards
• Submit a CD version in Feb. 2010

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Thank you!
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An Application of FOAF-DOAC (Description Of A
Career)

• DOAC is a vocabulary to descriptive professional
  capabilities of a worker.
• Business people can search the internet to find a
  worker that fits their requirements and will be
  as easy as any search in Google.
• Other applications Facebook, Twitter, etc

Social Profile information of an actor in RGPS
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Role in MFI-8
Functional Goal in MFI-8
Nonfunctional Goal in MFI-8

• Enterprise specification determines the purpose,
  scope and policies for a system, which consists
  of roles and policies with respect to the
  reference point.

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On Demand Model Selection (MFI-9)
Process Registry based on MFI-5
Role and Goal Registry based on MFI-8
Service Registry based on MFI-7
Registration
Interoperation
BPEL

WSDL

BMM

Specification
PSL
WADL
Tropos
OPM
WSMO
FOAF
UML
OWL-S
RM-ODP