UPDMRTF — Future Increments of UPDM should not preclude using SBVR for Modeling Vocabularies and Rules

SBVR, the Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Business Rules, provides a formal logical foundation for the expression of enterprise ontologies and rule constraints applicable to enterprise elements. SBVR also offers informative, non-normative notations for these vocabularies and rules.

Future increments of UPDM (i.e. UAFP v1) should not preclude an enterprise architect from using SBVR and its metaclass elements for the expression of ontologies and rules within their UPDM (to be known as UAFP) models.

These enterprise ontologies and enterprise rules appear throughout a traditional UPDM architecture description in the structural elements of the respective views (e.g. Performers, Operational Activities, Systems, Services, etc) and in the constraints on those elements.