The advent of UML 2.0 has provided a new set of concepts more apt for modeling the structure and behavior of distributed systems. These concepts and mechanisms can be effectively used for representing the ODP concepts, in particular those from the Computational Viewpoint. In this paper we present an example that uses the UML 2.0 profile for the ODP computational viewpoint to illustrate its bene...

IMPORTANCE The optic disc pit (ODP) has been considered a region of localized susceptibility to the damage of glaucoma. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the rate of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning differs according to the presence and structural characteristics of an ODP in primary open-angle glaucoma. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We performed a prospective case-control study t...

RM-ODP (Reference Model Open Distributed Processing) standard prescribes architectural viewpoint specifications, but does not address traceability with requirement expression. In this article, we propose a three-layer approach to requirements modeling, from the system high level goals, to the detailed business rules and nonfunctional requirements. Then, these descriptions are connected to key e...

This paper presents an approach for enterprise modelling of complex command and control systems. This approach is based on the use of ODP enterprise language concepts (communities, roles, enterprise objects, policies, and contracts), augmented with enterprise-related Quality of Service (QoS) descriptions. These descriptions are based on the ODP QoS statements, namely QoS capabilities, QoS requi...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires modeling enterprises across multiple levels (from markets down to IT systems) – i.e. modeling hierarchical systems. Our goal is to build a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool for EA. To be able to build this CAD tool, we need an ontology that can be used to describe hierarchical systems. The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) was originall...

This paper compares the LOTOS and Z re nement relations The motivation for such a comparison is the use of multiple viewpoints for specifying complex systems de ned by the reference model of the Open Distributed Processing ODP standard ization initiative The ODP architectural semantics describes the application of formal description techniques FDTs to the speci cation of ODP systems Of the avai...

Multiple testing has been widely adopted for genome-wide studies such as microarray experiments. For effective gene selection in these genome-wide studies, the optimal discovery procedure (ODP), which maximizes the number of expected true positives for each fixed number of expected false positives, was developed as a multiple testing extension of the most powerful test for a single hypothesis b...

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are large, open, distributed and standards-based information systems which intend to facilitate and promote the use of spatial data and spatial services on the Internet. Spatial data describe information tied with locations on Earth, while spatial services allow to manipulate spatial data following a Service Oriented Architecture. This paper proposes to model...

The ARTigo project is based on a social image tagging game developed at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. It provides us with a large database of images described by tags which were chosen by the players of the ARTigo game. The outlying properties detection problem (ODP) defines the problem of finding explanations for the most outlying properties of a certain object. This work intends...

RM-ODP is about modeling, and mathematics is one of the oldest, and deserved, modeling disciplines. Experience accumulated in mathematics in general, and some of machineries developed, may well turn out to be relevant for arranging/organizing/ formalizing the concepts managed in RM-ODP. Especially promising here is mathematical category theory that is nothing but a discipline and framework for ...