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Object Management Group

The modeling-standards body. Eight of the specifications AML is grounded in are OMG specifications — the metamodeling stack, the rule semantics, the metrics metamodel, and the value-delivery and motivation models.

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What AML reads OMG for.

Each specification below is decomposed into the parts AML actually binds against, and names the model it grounds. Nothing here restates the specification text — OMG publishes that.

Specifications

Unified Modeling Language

uml

2.5.1 (ISO/IEC 19505) · grounds the aml model

  • Classifiers classes, interfaces, and datatypes that structure a model
  • Features properties and operations a classifier owns
  • Generalization the inheritance edge between classifiers
  • Profiles the extension mechanism AML governs UML's metaclasses through

Meta-Object Facility

mof

2.5.1; CMOF ISO/IEC 19508:2014 · grounds the aml model

  • M3 metametamodel the top layer that defines modeling languages themselves
  • CMOF vs EMOF the complete and essential MOF variants; AML is CMOF-compliant
  • Reflection the reflective metaclass machinery AML's meta cascade builds on
  • Identifiers MOF identity and extent that anchor a model repository

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules

sbvr

1.5 · grounds the apsm model

  • Vocabulary the noun and verb concepts a business shares
  • Fact types the associations that bind concepts into statements
  • Rules the operative and structural constraints over fact types
  • Modality necessary, obligatory, prohibited, and permitted keywords

Object Constraint Language

ocl

2.4 · grounds the apsm model

  • Invariants conditions that must always hold on a model element
  • Pre/post-conditions contracts guarding an operation's execution
  • Navigation path expressions across a model's associations
  • Collection operations select, collect, forAll, and exists over sets

XML Metadata Interchange

xmi

2.5.1 (ISO/IEC 19509) · grounds the aml model

  • Serialization the XML encoding of a MOF-based model
  • Round-trip loss-free export and re-import between tools
  • Identity and references xmi:id and href that stitch a model together
  • Tool interchange the neutral wire format AML metamodels travel on

Structured Metrics Metamodel

smm

1.2 · grounds the amm model

  • DirectMeasure a measure read straight off a measurand
  • CollectiveMeasure a measure aggregated from a set of measures
  • RatioMeasure a measure formed as the ratio of two measures
  • Scale and unit the scale and unit-of-measure every AMM base measure carries

Value Delivery Modeling Language

vdml

1.1 · grounds the apsm model

  • Capabilities what an enterprise is able to do
  • Activities the work that consumes and produces deliverables
  • Ports and flows the deliverable-flow network between activities
  • Value propositions the value an enterprise delivers to a recipient

Business Motivation Model

bmm

1.3 · grounds the apsm model

  • Ends vision, goal, and objective the business pursues
  • Means mission, strategy, and tactic that reach the ends
  • Influencers internal and external forces on the plan
  • Assessments the judgments linking influencers to ends and means
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