Typology and Modeling Profiles of AS-Class Process-Entity Interactions: Object Actualization and Base Schema Adaptation

Abstract

The ability of objects engages in specific interactions, as one of the object properties, referred to as readiness (applicability), always restricts by the "windows of capabilities" — the temporal corridors during which these interactions can take place. The beginning and duration of a single corridor, correlated with an object and the predicted interaction, at any given time depends on a finite number of temporal corridors belonging to other objects and interactions. Thus, the coherence of the process-entity interactions ensemble is achieved not only by setting materialization relationships, but also by synchronizing them in time. To study and model readiness, covering all types and associations involved in the interactions of the assembling class, the work uses "On" and "Off" timestamps tied to an abstract timeline. The contributions of our study are threefold. First of all, substantiation in the expediency of using such an object property as readiness in conceptual modeling. Second, the system of generic temporal constraints that secure the data reliability and correctness. Third, the concept of temporal corridors and the method of the latter calculation, which allows you to find acceptable boundaries for changing the values of temporal attributes in case of updating them. We have shown one of the options for adapting the generalized assembly process in a given application domain and the specific domain constraint that can arise in this case using an example from practice.