ISO/IEC 19763-8:2015

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 19763-8
First edition
2015-10-15
Information technology — Metamodel
framework for interoperability (MFI) —
Part 8:
Metamodel for role and goal model
registration
Technologies de l'information — Cadre du métamodèle pour
l'interopérabilité (MFI) —
Partie 8: Métamodèle pour l'enregistrement du modèle de rôle et
objectif
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Contents Page
Foreword . v
Introduction . Error! Bookmark not defined.
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 2
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 2
3.1 Terms and definitions . 2
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 3
4 Conformance . 4
4.1 General . 4
4.2 Degree of conformance . 4
4.2.1 General . 4
4.2.2 Strictly conforming implementation . 4
4.2.3 Conforming implementation . 4
4.3 Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) . 4
5 Structure of MFI Role and Goal model registration . 5
5.1 Overview of MFI Role and Goal model registration . 5
5.2 Associations between MFI Role and Goal model registration and other parts in MFI . 6
5.3 Metaclasses in MFI Role and Goal model registration . 7
5.3.1 Constraint . 7
5.3.2 Constraint_Type . 8
5.3.3 Decomposition . 8
5.3.4 Decomposition_Type . 8
5.3.5 Description_Type . 9
5.3.6 Functional_Goal . 9
5.3.7 Goal . 10
5.3.8 Involvement_Type . 11
5.3.9 Nonfunctional_Goal . 11
5.3.10 Organization . 12
5.3.11 Process_Involvement . 12
5.3.12 Role . 13
5.3.13 Role_Goal_Model . 14
5.3.14 Role_Goal_Modelling_Language . 15
5.3.15 Service_Involvement . 15
Annex A (informative) Examples . 16
A.1 Introduction . 16
A.2 Example 1 - Trip Arrangement in i* . 16
A.3 Example 2 - Library Management in ODP (UML profiles) . 20
Bibliography . 22
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Figures
Figure 1 - The scope of MFI Role and Goal model registration . 1
Figure 2 - Metamodel of MFI Role and Goal model registration . 6
Figure 3 - Associations between MFI Role and Goal model registration and other parts in MFI . 6
Figure 4 - Associations between MFI Role and Goal model registration and MFI Core and mapping . 7
Figure A.1 - Example of Trip_Arrangement model in i* . 16
Figure A.2 - Registration of the Trip_Arrangement example (Part 1 of 2) . 18
Figure A.2 - Registration of the Trip_Arrangement example (Part 2 of 2) . 19
Figure A.3 - Example of Library_Management model in ODP . 20
Figure A.4 - Registration of the Library_Management example . 21

Tables
Table A.1 - Transformations for Example 1 . 17
Table A.2 - Transformations for Example 2 . 21

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Foreword
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ISO/IEC 19763-8 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information Technology,
Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and Interchange.
ISO/IEC 19763 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Metamodel
framework for interoperability (MFI):
 Part 1: Framework
 Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration
 Part 5: Metamodel for process model registration
 Part 6: Registry Summary
 Part 7: Metamodel for service model registration
 Part 8: Metamodel for role and goal model registration
 Part 9: On demand model selection [Technical Report]
 Part 10: Core model and basic mapping
 Part 12: Metamodel for information model registration
 Part 13: Metamodel for form design registration
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Introduction
Industrial consortia have engaged in the standardization of domain-specific objects including business
process models and software components using common modelling facilities and interchange facilities such
as UML (Unified Modelling Language) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language). They are very active in
standardizing domain-specific business process models and standard modelling constructs such as data
elements, entity profiles, and value domains.
Interoperation among autonomous Web-based applications, such as Web services, is becoming increasingly
important. Goals are descriptive statements of the intent of a user or organization, and each goal can be
viewed as an objective that a process or a service should achieve. Effective management of goals will
facilitate the reuse of information resources in support of those goals. Roles are abstract characterizations of
organizational behaviours and responsibilities within a specified organizational context. Descriptions of roles
will be helpful in characterizing goals in a complete and correct way, and reusing goals based on roles. Note
that any particular set of roles and goals are owned by a specific organization.
There are many existing standards and specifications, typically developed for a specific domain or business
area, that can be used to describe or to model goals and the roles associated with these goals. One example
is ISO/IEC 14662, Information Technologies - Open-edi reference model, which is a domain specific reference
model and introduces the concept of a business goal as a special type of goal that is shared within that
community.
This part of ISO/IEC 19763 provides a framework for registering generic descriptive information about models
that describe roles and goals.

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 19763-8:2015(E)

Information technology — Metamodel framework for
interoperability (MFI) —
Part 8:
Metamodel for role and goal model registration
1 Scope
The primary purpose of the multipart standard ISO/IEC 19763 is to specify a metamodel framework for
interoperability. This part of ISO/IEC 19763 specifies a metamodel for registering the role and goal models of
users of services and/or processes.
The metamodel that this part specifies is intended to promote the reuse of goals by roles within/across role
and goal model repositories, and further promote services selection across service model repositories based
on goals. For this purpose, it provides administrative information and common semantics of role and goal
models created with a specific role and goal modelling language, including Goal-oriented requirements
modelling (i*) [1], Keep All Objects Satisfied (KAOS) [2], Non-functional Requirement Framework (NFRF) [3],
Business Motivation Model (BMM) [4], Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) [5] etc.
Figure 1 shows the scope of this part. In this figure, “register” refers to the registration activity of registering
administrative and descriptive information for role and goal models into the role and goal model registry based
on the metamodel specified in this part of ISO/IEC 19763, as well as the mapping between source
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