IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Activity
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#ActivityEmpowerment
Activity empowerment specifies the range of stati through which an oa may take an activity by performing the appropriate actions, such as execute and suspend. Even though an activity may be enabled, the oa whose role contains the process which contains the activity may not be empowered to start its execution.
forActivity: defines the Activity that the agent is being empowered for.
forAction: defines the action on the Activity the agent is being empowered for
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#AndState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Authority
Adequate authority is needed for the role to achieve its goals. Authorities include the right of using resource, the right to perform activities, and the right to execute status changing actions.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#CommunicationLink
Communication-links are established among organizational agents in various roles. Communication-links capture the notion of benevolent communication in which agents regard each other as peers volunteer information that they believe relevant to other agents. This exchange does not create obligations for any agent.
The communication-link is a unidirectional link used to communicate information from one agent to another. It describes, for an agent in a given organizational role, the information it is interested in receiving and the information it can benevolently distribute to others.
For example, an agent in the “C++ programmer” role may distribute information about the state of the file server to other programmers, alerting them each time the server is down.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#CommunicationWithAuthority
A special kind of authority is the control relationship between two organizational agents. For OA1 to have authority over OA2 implies that OA1 is able to extract a commitment from OA2 to achieve a goal that is defined as part of OA2’s organization-roles. In order to extract that commitment, OA1 has to be related directly or indirectly by a communication-with-authority (CWA) link relation.
The Communication-with-Authority link, used when communication is intended to create obligations, specifies the two agents, one in the authority position (called supervisor) and the other in the controled position (called supervisee), among which communication takes place. Because we model communication as exchange of speech-acts, authority of an agent appears as the set of speech-acts this agent can use in order to create obligations for the other agent. For example, an agent may have authority to request another agent to perform action A1, but not to perform action A2. In this case, the second agent will have to commit to achieving A1 when requested by the first agent, but not A2.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Constraint
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#ConsumeState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Division
An organization consists of divisions.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Empowerment
Empowerment is the right of an oa to perform status changing actions, such as "commit", "enable", "suspend", etc. Empowerment naturally falls into two classes: state and activity empowerment.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#ForProfitOrganization
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Goal
A goal is achieved if the state that it is linked to via a satisfiedBy property is true. A Goal achieved by the performance of a Process.
Goals can be ordered directly via the dependsOn property.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#GovernmentOrganization
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#NonGovernmentOrganization
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#OrState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Organization
An organization is a set of constraints on the activities performed by agents. An organization consists of a set of divisions and subdivisions (recursive definition), a set of organization-agents (said to be members of a division of the organization), a set of roles that the members play in the organization, and an organization-goal tree that specifies the goals (and their decomposition into subgoals) the members try to achieve.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#OrganizationAgent
An organization-agent (or in short agent) plays one or more roles. Each role is defined with a set of goals that the role is created to fulfill and is allocated with proper authority at the level that the role can achieve its goals. Agents perform activities in the organization, each of which may consume resource (e.g. materials, labors, tools, etc.) and there is a set of constraints that constrain the activities. An agent can also be a member of a team set up in response to a special task, has skill requirements, and has a set of communication-link defining the protocol that it communicates with other agents in the organization.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#OrganizationThing
Communication-links are established among organizational agents in various roles. Communication-links capture the notion of benevolent communication in which agents regard each other as peers volunteer information that they believe relevant to other agents. This exchange does not create obligations for any agent.
The communication-link is a unidirectional link used to communicate information from one agent to another. It describes, for an agent in a given organizational role, the information it is interested in receiving and the information it can benevolently distribute to others.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Ownership
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Policy
Constraints on the performance of the role’s processes. These constraints are unique to the organization role.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Process
Activity networks that have been defined to achieve the goals.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#ProduceState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#ReleaseState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Resource
One or more resources may be allocated to a role for disposition under its authority.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Role
A Role defines one or more prototypical job functions in an organization.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#Skill
One or more skills required for the realization of a role.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#State
An enabling state defines what has to be true of the world in order for the activity to be performed. A caused state defines what is true of the world once the activity has been completed.
An activity, along with its enabling and caused states, is called an activity cluster. The state tree linked by an enables relation to an activity specifies what has to be true in order for the activity to be performed. The state tree linked to an activity by a causes relation defines what is true of the world once the activity has been completed.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#StateEmpowerment
State empowerment specifies the range of stati through which an oa may take a state by performing the appropriate actions, such as commit. State empowerment not only specifies allowable status changes but may be used to restrict the set of resources an oa is empowered to commit to a use/consume state. An oa may be empowered for any type of resource, including other oas. The implication being the first oa may commit the second to a state.
forState: defines the state that the agent is being empowered for.
forAction: defines the action on the state the agent is being empowered for
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#TerminalState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#UseState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#activityEmpower
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#causedBy
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#causes
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#commitedTo
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#communicationLinkProperty
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#consistsOf
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#decompositionOf
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#dependsOn
A goal g1 is said to depend on goal g2 if g1 can not be achieved unless g2 has been achieved previously.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#enabledBy
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#enables
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#forAction
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#forActivity
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#forResource
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#forState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#generalizedRoleOf
has characteristics: transitive
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#goalProperty
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasAuthority
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasCommunicationLink
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasEmpowerment
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasGoal
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasInterest
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasMember
Defines that an OrganizationAgent is a member of an Organization and/or some type of work.
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#has_Ownership
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasPolicy
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasProcess
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasReceivingAgent
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasReceivingRole
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasResource
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasRole
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasSendingAgent
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasSendingRole
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasSubState
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasSupervisee
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasSupervisor
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#homeDivision
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#memberOf
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#organizationAgentProperty
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#plays
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#requiresSkill
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#roleProperty
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#satisfiedBy
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#specializedRoleOf
has characteristics: transitive
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#stateEmpower
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#stateProperty
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#subStateOf
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#subordinateOf
Within the organization, there is usually a hierarchy of roles where one role is subordinate of another. For example, recruiting-officer is a subordinate of human-resource-manager, which in turn is a subordinate of president.
has characteristics: transitive
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#superiorOf
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#willVolunteer
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#achieved
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasLegalName
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#hasName
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#charitable_owned
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#commit
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#complete
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#disenable
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#enable
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#execute
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#government_owned
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#privately_owned
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#publicly_owned
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#reenable
IRI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/organization.owl#suspend
IRI: http://purl.org/vocab/vann/preferredNamespacePrefix
IRI: http://purl.org/vocab/vann/preferredNamespaceUri
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An activity is the basic transformational action primitive with which processes and operations can be represented; it specifies how the world is changed. An enabling state defines what has to be true of the world in order for the activity to be performed. A caused state defines what is true of the world once the activity has been completed.
An activity, along with its enabling and caused states, is called an activity cluster.The state tree linked by an enables relation to an activity specifies what has to be true in order for the activity to be performed. The state tree linked to an activity by a causes relation defines what is true of the world once the activity has been completed. Intermediate states of an activity can be defined by elaborating the aggregate activity into an activity network.