OIMEL

Reality

Things that exist in the real world:

• Concrete Things
  • “Coker-4”, a delayed coker
  • a printout of “PFD-987”
• Abstract Things
  • “PFD-987”
  • the structure of “Coker-4”

Information

Information about reality. Or: Model of reality.

• Not necessarily complete:
  • Completeness impossible for concrete things.
  • Completeness can be possible for abstract things (“by definition”)

Information Model

Model of Information.

Focus of our work. Cf. reference part.

Meta Model

Model of Information Model.

Background

UML-MOF.

Instance model, class model.

ISO 15926.