Glossary of Terms
Abstraction: Abstraction is an insufficiency of details to describe completely
all that is needed so that the EMMI that is necessary to enact a mechanism is available as needed.
Abstraction classification of integration: We refer to the class of integration
as an abstraction classification of integration (or “cognitive integration”)—that is two things connected conceptually and cognitively
considered as entities in object or process thinking.
Act, activity: An act is the change in an object that is distinguishable as one
increment in a sequence of acts, which combine to make an activity.
Action: An action is the release or receipt of something due to the enactment
of a mechanism.
Aggregation: An assemblage of discrete objects or processes that have relations of convenience, but not in any particular way or pattern.
Aggregations do not have relations due to interaction, but show no
evidence of integration.
Alignment: Objects or processes (and their logical derivatives, e.g., functions
or procedures, respectively) having cooperative association and
affiliation.
Archetype: The detailed extractions from an original pattern or roothold
that is related through levels of abstractions.*
Architecture: Conceptual and logical structures of objects and processes (and
their logical derivatives, e.g., functions or procedures, respectively).
Artifact: An object or process made by humans.*
Attribute: Attribute is a measure and measurement, configuration and
structure, and constraint (e.g., time, cost, and scope), performance,
and loss due to achieving the performances of a function.
Axiom: Assumed to be self-evident.*
Behavior: A behavior is describable in terms of observed reactions to influences of energy, matter, material wealth, or information. A behavior is the movement of objects by processes; processes that result in
objects; objects interacting with other objects. Behaviors are defined
by the use of an operational definition (Kerlinger and Lee 2000)
that particularizes objects and processes in ways that are
measurable.
* The definition is adapted from or modeled after the dictionary resources provided through
www.wordweb.co.uk, WordWeb Pro thesaurus/dictionary, Version 5, 2007, Anthony Lewis;
these sources include the Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 2005, and the
Chambers Dictionary (11th Edition), Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2008, and WordNet
database, Princeton University, 2006.
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Abstraction: Abstraction is an insufficiency of details to describe completely
all that is needed so that the EMMI that is necessary to enact a mechanism is available as needed.
Abstraction classification of integration: We refer to the class of integration
as an abstraction classification of integration (or “cognitive integration”)—that is two things connected conceptually and cognitively
considered as entities in object or process thinking.
Act, activity: An act is the change in an object that is distinguishable as one
increment in a sequence of acts, which combine to make an activity.
Action: An action is the release or receipt of something due to the enactment
of a mechanism.
Aggregation: An assemblage of discrete objects or processes that have relations of convenience, but not in any particular way or pattern.
Aggregations do not have relations due to interaction, but show no
evidence of integration.
Alignment: Objects or processes (and their logical derivatives, e.g., functions
or procedures, respectively) having cooperative association and
affiliation.
Archetype: The detailed extractions from an original pattern or roothold
that is related through levels of abstractions.*
Architecture: Conceptual and logical structures of objects and processes (and
their logical derivatives, e.g., functions or procedures, respectively).
Artifact: An object or process made by humans.*
Attribute: Attribute is a measure and measurement, configuration and
structure, and constraint (e.g., time, cost, and scope), performance,
and loss due to achieving the performances of a function.
Axiom: Assumed to be self-evident.*
Behavior: A behavior is describable in terms of observed reactions to influences of energy, matter, material wealth, or information. A behavior is the movement of objects by processes; processes that result in
objects; objects interacting with other objects. Behaviors are defined
by the use of an operational definition (Kerlinger and Lee 2000)
that particularizes objects and processes in ways that are
measurable.
* The definition is adapted from or modeled after the dictionary resources provided through
www.wordweb.co.uk, WordWeb Pro thesaurus/dictionary, Version 5, 2007, Anthony Lewis;
these sources include the Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 2005, and the
Chambers Dictionary (11th Edition), Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2008, and WordNet
database, Princeton University, 2006.
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