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International standards for open system specification — such as the Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) and the General Relationship Model (GRM) — provide precisely defined concepts and constructs essential to understand businesses and systems and to express this understanding. We demonstrate some examples of how these standards helped in practice of specifying architectures for a large financial firm, and also describe some lessons learned in this process. Specifically, we show how abstract and precise constructs based on these standards helped us to understand and formulate the difference between architectural constructs that do, and architectural constructs that do not, specify behavior; this opened the eyes to a lot of people. We also note that our work is applicable both to “traditional” and to “legacy” 00 approaches since the RM-ODP and GRM concepts and constructs support both.
Most of this work was accomplished when Haim Kilov worked for the Genesis Development Corporation.
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Bernet, O., Kilov, H. (2003). From Box-and-Line Drawings to Precise Specifications: Using RM-ODP and GRM to Specify Semantics. In: Kilov, H., Baclawski, K. (eds) Practical Foundations of Business System Specifications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2740-2_6
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