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Dear John, Thanks for your clear description of semantic and speech communities in SBVR and the relationship to UoD. I would propose we extend it a bit by the following: SBVR distinguishes three levels: a. Ground facts b. Domain specific conceptual schema c. Generic conceptual schema In SBVR the union of b+c is called Conceptual ...

Terry, Thanks very much for your lucid description of ORM, CogNIAM and SBVR. I agree with you that a common core model is a very worthwile effort for the fact orientation community. I like in particular your words "useful subsets of them". I know quite a few fact orientation users who welcome such an approach. I assume that both of ...

My recommendation to the fact orientation community is to adopt many of the SBVR functionalities that are not available in CogNIAM or ORM. In CogNIAM we have last year added several SBVR functionalities. One of the sets of useful functionalities is around communities, both semantic and speech, bodies of shared meanings and bodies of shared ...

It is possible when a certain set of rules or business practice is followed to transform automatically between SBVR, CogNIAM and ORM. Hence a certain form of Structured English, CogNIAM and ORM can be considered as SBVR compliant languages. Hence we can speak of three speech communities belonging to one semantic community. This aspect of ...

I was asked: how can you say SBVR is a fact based approach? Well, first let me stress that SBVR adds very valuable functionalities to fact orientation proper. The fact based approach of SBVR is clear from Clause 10 and other parts of the spec. Look e.g in Clause 8, 8.5 There is only one fact type expressing what the contents of a fact model ...

For people interested in ORM, CogNIAM and SBVR, it is good to know that the SBVR Foundation holds a three day tutorial-conference June 9-11, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Go to the website www.sbvrfoundation.eu and you see that Terry gives a full day tutorial on logic as the base for SBVR. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the best expert in ...

On December 11, 2007 OMG declared SBVR a standard. A well selected subset of SBVR corresponds to CogNIAM (the latest version of NIAM with Cognition enhanced, hence concept definitions and fact type forms are first class citizens) or ORM. For persons interested in introductory descriptions of SBVR and how it relates to CogNIAM, go to ...