ISO/IEC TR 15944-6:2015

TECHNICAL ISO/IEC TR
REPORT 15944-6
Second edition
2015-07-01
Information technology — Business
Operational View —
Part 6:
Technical introduction to e-Business
modelling
Technologies de l’information — Vue opérationnelle d’affaires —
Partie 6: Introduction technique à la modélisation d’affaires
électroniques
Reference number
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ISO/IEC 2015
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Contents Page
Foreword . iv
Introduction . vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
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3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Abbreviated terms . 10
5 Fundamentals of Business Transaction Modelling . 11
5.1 Introduction to Business Transaction Modelling . 11
5.2 Basic Aspects of Business Transaction Modelling . 12
5.2.1 Basic Structure of Business Transaction . 12
5.2.2 Collaboration Space . 12
5.2.3 Parties and Business Roles . 13
5.2.4 Goods, Services and/or Rights . 14
5.2.5 Payment . 14
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5.3 Business Transaction Pattern . 15
6 Principles of eBusiness Modelling . 18
6.1 Introduction to eBusiness Modelling . 18
6.2 Business Role and Person . 19
6.3 Business Goal . 20
6.4 Collaboration Space and Jurisdictional Domain . 21
6.5 Business Transaction . 22
7 Key Attributes for Classification of a Business Transaction. 22
7.1 Introduction to Classification of Open-edi Scenarios . 22
7.2 Key Attributes for Classification of a Business Transaction. 23
7.2.1 Market Type on business boundary . 23
7.2.2 Settlement Type in Business Process . 23
7.2.3 Participation Type of Role . 24
7.3 Trade Model Based on the Classification Attributes . 24
7.3.1 Basic Trade Model . 24
7.3.2 Trade Model by Market Type . 24
7.3.3 Trade Model by Settlement Type . 25
7.3.4 Trade Model by Participation Type . 25
7.4 Classification Scheme of Open-edi Scenarios . 26
7.4.1 Scenario Classification and Types . 26
7.4.2 Scenario Types . 28
7.4.3 Assumption for scenario classification . 31
Bibliography . 41
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Foreword
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ISO/IEC TR 15944-6, which is a Technical Report of type 2, was prepared by Joint Technical Committee
ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and interchange.
ISO/IEC TR 15944 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Business
Operational View:
 Part 1: Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation
 Part 2: Registration of scenarios and their components as business objects
 Part 4: Business transaction scenarios — Accounting and economic ontology
 Part 5: Identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domains as sources of external
constraints
 Part 6: Technical introduction to eBusiness modelling [Technical Report]
 Part 7: eBusiness vocabulary
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 Part 8: Identification of privacy protection requirements as external constraints on business transactions
 Part 10: IT-enabled coded domains as semantic components in business transactions
The following parts are under preparation:
 Part 9: Business transaction traceability framework for commitment exchange
 Part 11: Descriptive Techniques for Foundational Modelling in Open-edi
 Part 12: Privacy protection requirements on information life cycle management (ILCM) in EDI
 Part 20: Linking business operational view to functional service view

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Introduction
It is desired to be able to commence eBusiness by simply choosing a particular scenario from the registered
set of scenarios and applying the same to the actual, i.e. instantiated, business transaction. In this context, the
registered Open-edi scenario is supposed to be a generic class of various specific scenarios. In addition, if the
generic scenario class were successfully obtained, it could consist of a small number of mandatory attributes
and many conditional and/or optional attributes, i.e. as scenario components.
Although such a standardization idea for Open-edi scenarios seems to be a straightforward solution, it is likely
to be difficult to distinguish a particular scenario from the others. In particular, the scenario description with
many conditional attributes may be so complex that the semantics could not be clearly compiled even if an
excellent description technique is employed. In addition, for those scenarios having the same attributes but
with slightly different domains and the combinatorial, it is not evident whether they all have to be interpreted as
single scenario class or not. Even if individual scenarios could be formally identified as having a unique
identifier, many scenarios that are semantically equivalent may be redundantly registered. The more
redundant registration increases, the more confusion occurs.
One of the effective solutions to avoid the redundant registration is to establish a classification scheme based
on well-defined criteria, which may reduce the complexity of conditional attributes as much as possible.
This part of ISO/IEC 15944 discusses the fundamentals of business transaction and the principles of
eBusiness modelling, from which the classification schemes are derived for Open-edi scenarios and their
components. This is in addition to:
1) the use of the templates for scoping Open-edi Scenarios and the rules for specifying Open-edi
scenarios and their components as stated in ISO/IEC 15944-1:2002;
2) the use of templates for registering Open-edi Scenarios and their components as stated in
ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006; and,
3) the use of templates for the identification and referencing of scenarios and scenario components
which are structured to be able to support the requirements of jurisdictional domains as sources of
external constraints as stated in ISO/IEC 15944-5:2007.”
4) the ontology of eBusiness modelling introduced in ISO/IEC 15944-4:2007.

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TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/IEC TR 15944-6:2015(E)

Information technology — Business Operational View —
Part 6:
Technical introduction to e-Business modelling
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 15944 discusses and describes the following three topics of eBusiness modelling:
— fundamentals of business transaction modelling that describe the conceptual aspects of eBusiness;
— principles of eBusiness modelling that specify the semantic aspect of business transactions and their
components and relationships involved in the business transaction;
— classification scheme of Open-edi scenarios based on eBusiness modelling.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 15944-1:2002, Information technology — Business agreement semantic descriptive techniques —
Part 1: Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation
1)
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
agent
Person acting for another Person in a clearly specified capacity in the context of a business transaction
NOTE Excluded here are agents as "automatons" (or robots, bobots, etc.). In ISO/IEC 14662, "automatons" are
recognized and provided for but as part of the Functional Service View (FSV) where they are defined as an "Information
Processing Domain (IPD)".
[ISO/IEC 15944-1:2002 (3.1)]
1) This clause contains a subset of key terms and definitions used in this part of ISO/IEC 15944. For the complet
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