MANAGING AND MAINTAINING SCOPE IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY MODEL REPOSITORY

• US 20110153293A1
• Filed: 12/17/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Coldicott, Peter A., Mourad, Magda M., Selvage, Mei Y., Pendergrass, Harry T., Lane, Eoin
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,412 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method of managing and maintaining scope in a of service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR; managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR.

Claims

1. A method of managing and maintaining scope in a service oriented architecture (SOA) industry model repository (IMR) comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository including model assets, requirement models, and document models, the meta model service comprising:

at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository common meta-meta model, the information model repository common meta-meta model included within a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index, the method comprising;

a) defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR;

b) managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and

c) maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

creating a new meta model topic, association, or occurrence and topic, association, or occurrence name for the requirement model;

creating a scope topic, association, or occurrence to identify that the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence is in the scope of the SOA IMR;

adding the scope topic, association, or occurrence to the topic, association, or occurrence name of the new meta model topic;

creating resource description framework triples of the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence; and

creating scope dependent uniform resource identifiers from the topic, association, or occurrence name for uniquely identifying the resource description framework triples created.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR further comprises differentiating between different meta models and artifacts within the meta model service of the SOA IMR.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the scope is industry vertical scoping.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the scope is inheritance scoping.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the scope is business scoping.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the scope is project scoping

8. A computer system for a service oriented industry model repository architecture, the system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory, a computer readable storage media, a plurality of service oriented architecture (SOA) industry model repositories (IMR) comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository including model assets, requirement models, and document models, the meta model service comprising;

at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository common meta-meta model, the information model repository common meta-meta model included within a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index;

first program instructions for defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR;

second program instructions for managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and

third program instructions for maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR;

the first, second, and third program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the system further comprises:

fourth program instructions for creating a new meta model topic, association, or occurrence and topic, association, or occurrence name for the requirement model;

fifth program instructions for creating a scope topic, association, or occurrence to identify that the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence is in the scope of the SOA IMR;

sixth program instructions for adding the scope topic, association, or occurrence to the topic, association, or occurrence name of the new meta model topic;

seventh program instructions for creating resource description framework triples of the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence; and

eighth program instructions for creating scope dependent uniform resource identifiers from the topic, association, or occurrence name for uniquely identifying the resource description framework triples created;

the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the first program instructions for defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the repository of internal meta model service data further comprises differentiating between different meta models and artifacts within the meta model service of the SOA IMR.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the scope is industry vertical scoping.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the scope is inheritance scoping.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the scope is business scoping.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the scope is project scoping.

15. A computer program product for a service oriented industry model repository architecture, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage media storing a plurality of computer readable memory, a plurality of service oriented architecture (SOA) industry model repositories (IMR) comprising a meta model service associated with a physical asset repository including model assets, requirement models, and document models, the meta model service comprising;

at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical included within an information model repository common meta-meta model, the information model repository common meta-meta model included within a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index;

first program instructions for defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR;

second program instructions for managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and

third program instructions for maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR;

the first, second, and third program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the computer program product further comprises:

fourth program instructions for creating a new meta model topic, association, or occurrence and topic, association, or occurrence name for the requirement model;

fifth program instructions for creating a scope topic, association, or occurrence to identify that the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence is in the scope of the SOA IMR;

sixth program instructions for adding the scope topic, association, or occurrence to the topic, association, or occurrence name of the new meta model topic;

seventh program instructions for creating resource description framework triples of the new meta model topic, association, or occurrence; and

eighth program instructions for creating scope dependent uniform resource identifiers from the topic, association, or occurrence name for uniquely identifying the resource description framework triples created;

the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the first program instructions for defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the repository of internal meta model service data further comprises differentiating between different meta models and artifacts within the meta model service of the SOA IMR.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the scope is industry vertical scoping.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the scope is inheritance scoping.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the scope is business scoping.

21. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the scope is project scoping.