SBVR14 — Gap that Needs to be Filled by Concept Role Playing of Thing in Occurrence

1. An SBVR metamodel noun concept (named something like “role playing of thing in occurrence”) that is very similar to ‘object type’, ‘fact type’, ‘individual concept’, ‘situational role’ (role type), or ‘fact type role’ in that it defines a kind of vocabulary entry that can be entered in an SBVR model is needed in SBVR. It’s omission represents a critical gap in SBVR.

2. Preferably this noun concept (“role playing of thing in occurrence”) would be a category (subtype) of object type; but it is much better to have the concept in the SBVR metamodel than to require it to be an object type, if that is too difficult (e.g. fact type role is not (a category/subtype of) an object type).

3. The meaning of this kind of SBVR model vocabulary entry would be that it talks about "the ‘thing’ with respect to (in the context of) its/his playing some role in a fact of a fact type, and so on for each thing that plays that role in a fact of that fact type.

a. E.g. "the person with respect to (in the context of) his renting a given car on a given date", and so on for each person who rents a car on a date.

4. The extension of each vocabulary entry concept that is this kind of SBVR metamodel concept (“role playing of thing in occurrence”) must be in one to one correspondence with the actualities that are instances (and the facts [that correspond to the actualities]) that are of a given fact type which is identified in the definition of this kind of vocabulary entry. In the reference scheme below:

a. The first part (a name of an individual concept that corresponds to the thing that fills the given fact type role) is the thing we’re talking about

i. Example: Joe Smith (the person)

b. The second part (the fact type form of the fact type and a name of an individual concept that corresponds to the thing that fills each of the other fact type roles of the fact type) of the context of the role playing

i. Example: with respect to (in the context of) Joe’s renting of car 1234 on July 30, 2007 (with respect to (in the context of) his renting a given car on a given date)

5. The instances in the extension of each vocabulary entry concept that is this kind of SBVR metamodel concept (“role playing of thing in occurrence”) must be the ‘playings’ of a given ‘role’ by a ‘thing’ in the ‘facts’ that are for the ‘fact type’ identified in the vocabulary entry concept definition.

Deferred to SBVR v1.5 Revision Task Force because the SBVR v1.4 RTF was requested to close before it was finished so the SBVR RTF could be convert to JIRA.