Architecture Management Definitions

Model Element

Resources that are discrete addressable elements of a typically larger model of some behavior or construct of a system under development. A model element maintains its identity after refactoring.

Resource Link

A relationship between two resources (each uniquely addressable via a URI)

Resource Collection

An ordered or unordered set of resources, typically generated as the result of performing a query or search.

Impact Analysis

Analysis in order to understand the ramifications of actual or proposed changes to higher-level requirements. In this way the impact to the system, or aspects of its delivery can be assessed and acted upon.

Model Collection

A model collection is a collection resource containing references to model element resources. The semantics of the collection maybe as follows: A model element may be present in more than one collection at a time. The lifetime of a collection and the lifetime of a model element is not constrained by this specification; specifically, deletion of a collection MAY result in the deletion of the collected model elements. The collection is closed: that is, model elements which are not stated to be a member of that collection are to be interpreted as NOT belonging to that collection

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