| 摘要 |
<p>The present application relates to both a method of and apparatus for resource modelling and has particular application to the transformation of resource representations and thereby to the integration of heterogenous resources. In contemporary business environments, different problems and a variety of diverse requirements compel designers to adopt numerous modelling methodologies that use semantics customised to suit ad-hoc needs. This fact hinders the unanimous acceptance of one modelling paradigm and lays the ground for the adoption of customised versions of some. A particularly rich method of representing a resource is provided by the present invention, the resource having a plurality of states and associated behaviour defining transition between respective states; said method comprising representing the resource with a chosen combination of semantic elements, wherein the permissible set of semantic elements from which to choose comprises: a state class representing an element of state; a behaviour class representing an element of behaviour; a collection class representing an aggregation of one or more classes; a relationship class representing an association between two or more classes; and a constraint representing a logical expression associated with one or more classes.</p> |
