Thesaurus

PSM

Platform Specific Model

Purity

Feature of a model of a given aspect that only contains elements related to this aspect, excluding any other kind of considerations

Reactivity

Ability to respond quickly to a request, an incident or a change in one’s environment >>

Repository

Set of elements shared by a community >>

Representation Framework

Analytical grid applied to a system to organize our perception of it

Restitution

Ability of a model to retranslate its formal elements into everyday terms, understandable to stakeholders >>

Retroaction

Precept of organizational design, encouraging information about the level of quality to be fed back into the processes >>

Rights

Possibility for an actor to act on the system, in accordance with organizational rules

Role

Type of intervention in an activity, to which rights, required skills and stipulated behavior are added >>

Scale

Evaluation of an action in extent and in time >>

Scenario

A variant in the execution of a use case >>

Semantic

Related to meaning >>

Semantic Aspect

Aspect of a system that isolates the knowledge of the objects it manipulates and the concepts required for its functioning >>

Semantic Class

Basic unit of semantic modeling, expressing a concept or describing an object >>

Semantic Field

Network of terms delimited by subject >>

Semantic Model

Model of all or part of the semantic aspect of a system >>

Semantic Modeling

Modeling procedure concerning the semantic aspect, that is to say the business fundamentals, regardless of organizational and technical circumstances >>

Semantic Repository

Repository which contains the expression of the core business knowledge of an enterprise >>

Separation of Concerns

Plane of the representation of reality, considered separately to make it easier to study >>

Service

Lowest level constituent of the logical architecture, in an SOA style >>

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