Topological Functioning Model as a CIM-Business Model

Abstract

The Object Management Group (OMG) proposed Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that architecturally separates viewpoints on specifications. MDA suggests three different models for each of the proposed viewpoints. According to MDA principles stated in (The Object Management Group, 2003), they are a Computation Independent Model (CIM), a Platform Independent Model (PIM), and a Platform Specific Model (PSM). The CIM describes system requirements and a way a system works within its environment, while details of the application structure and realization are hidden or as yet undetermined. This model is sometimes called a domain model (a business model) and a vocabulary. The PIM describes operation of a system. It suppresses all the details necessary for a particular platform a system works within and shows only those parts of the complete specification that do not change going from one platform to another. The PSM ABstrAct