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Analysis & Design Platform Task Force

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Agent Metamodel and Profile RFP
The AMP RFP requests a metamodel and profile for extending UML with capabilities applicable to agents and agent-based software. Submissions developed in response to this RFP will achieve the following: Clarify semantics concerned with modeling agents. Establish Agent modeling best practices utilizing OMG technologies. Develop a MOF-compliant agent metamodel to be used either standalone or via extending the existing UML metamodel with agent modeling capabilities. Enable agent model interchange between tools via XMI. Optionally facilitate modeling of Peer-to-Peer, Grid and Cloud computing, and other technologies in terms of a collection of Agents.

Common Variability Language RFP
The goal of the Common Terminology Services 2 (CTS 2) Specification is to expand the original functionality outlined in HL7’s Common Terminology Service (CTS) Specification. CTS 2 defines the functional requirements of a set of service interfaces to allow the representation, access, and maintenance of terminology content either locally, or across a federation of terminology service nodes.

Concrete Syntax for a UML Action Language RFP
This proposal seeks a concrete syntax that maps to the action model of the Executable UML Foundation (fUML).
The goal is to create a standard language with which users can write complete and unambiguous functional description actions with the following properties:
• Statements are readable and intuitive.
• Statements can directly refer to and, as necessary, manipulate appropriate elements of the enclosing UML model
• Modelers can include comments.
• The language can be extended to include new features.

Diagram Definition RFP
This RFP requests a specification with the goal of enabling the definition and exchange of diagram syntax definitions and their bindings to MOF-based abstract syntaxes. The definitions will be capable of interpretation by a class of generic modeling tool resulting in diagram editors for MOF-based metamodels. The combination of the diagram definition specification and the MOF standard thus provides a complete capability to define graphical Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). This specification further provides the opportunity to more precisely and formally define the diagram types in other MOF-based specifications such as UML and BPMN.

Event Metamodel and Profile RFP
The EMP RFP requests a metamodel and profile for extending UML with capabilities applicable to the sensing and interpretation of events, such as monitoring, filtering, aggregation, and correlation. Submissions developed in response to this RFP will achieve the following: Clarify semantics concerned with modeling events. Establish Event modeling best practices utilizing OMG technologies. Develop a MOF-compliant event metamodel to be used either standalone or via extending the existing UML metamodel with event modeling capabilities. Enable event model interchange between tools via XMI.

Executable UML Foundation RFP (Adopted)
The objective of this RFP is to enable a chain of tools that support the construction, verification, translation, and execution of computationally complete executable models. For the tool chain to link together, the interchanged models must conform to the same metamodel and semantics. By semantics, we mean the underlying meaning of exchanged models, that is, the constraints that models place on the runtime behavior of the specified system. To this end, it must be precisely defined how the elements of the metamodel specify such runtime behavior. In support of this objective, the RFP solicits proposals for the definition of a computationally complete and compact subset of UML 2.0 to be known as Executable UML Foundation, along with a full specification of the execution semantics of this subset.

Information Management Metamodel RFP
This RFP solicits proposals for a standard metamodel to address the needs of Information Management. This includes the scope of the existing Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) standard but is extQL DDL UML2 Profile for Logical (Entity Relationship) Data Modeling, with a mapping to the IMM metamodel UML2 Profile for XML Data Modeling, with a mapping to the IMM metamodel and XML Schema UML2 Profile for Record Modeling, with a mapping to the IMM metamodel and COBOL Copybooks A standardized Information Engineering data modeling notation with a mapping to the IMM metamodel.

MDA Tool Component RFP
This Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of a series of RFPs related to the development of the MDA Tool Component (MDATC) specification. The objective of this RFP is to provide a standard specification to define and package the material used to customize a tooling environment, in order to apply MDA to a specific domain or context. This packaging unit is called "MDA Tool Component". In support of this objective, the RFP solicits proposals for: a specification of the definition and packaging aspects of MDA Tool Components.

SMOF (MOF Support for Semantic Structures) RFP
Submitters are requested to propose incremental changes to several existing specifications in order to make MOF better capable of supporting richer and evolving models. These should be factored into new compliance levels referred to as SMOF for the purpose of this RFP. The principle change is to allow MOF instances to add and remove metaclasses. The main specifications to be updated are: MOF2 Core MOF2 XMI MOF2 IDL UML2 Infrastructure (optionally).

UML Metamodel and Profile for Services (SoaML) RFP (Adopted)
Globalization and the Internet have resulted in the need to define more loosely coupled components executing in distributed heterogeneous environments. Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) represent an approach to Information Technology (IT) development that facilitates this loose coupling while at the same time providing sufficient qualities of services necessary for acceptable solutions. There are a number of existing and emerging/evolving runtime platforms resulting in a need to abstract their commonality and define standards for interoperability and information exchange. This Request for Proposal solicits submissions for a UML Metamodel and Profile for Service (UPMS). Essentially, the UPMS RFP requests a services metamodel and profile for extending UML with capabilities applicable to modeling services using an SOA. The profile will define extensions for modeling and integrating services within and across business enterprises. UPMS will include facilities for formal specification of service contracts that may be developed directly using the profile, or abstracted from business processes. It will also include facilities for indicating which of these contracts are fulfilled by modeled service providers.

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