transaction process
a sequence of process steps; it is some route through the complete transaction pattern, during which process steps of the same process step kind may…
transaction phase
the standard transaction pattern consists of three consecutive phases: the proposition phase, the execution phase, and the result phase.
transaction pattern
a pattern of process steps, alternately taken by two actor roles. The basic transaction pattern consists of the process steps ‘request’, ‘promise’, ‘state’, and ‘accept’…
transaction kind
transactions of the same transaction kind regard products of the same product kind. Examples of transaction kinds: membership_start, rental_contracting
transaction bank
the conceptual store associated with a transaction kind in which all coordination facts in all of its carried out transactions are stored.
transaction
the unit of production in an organisation. The result of a successfully carried out transaction is the coming into being of a product.
time unit
the unit for indicating or measuring pieces of time on a time scale. It may be indefinitely large or small, dependent on the needed precision….
time scale
a division of a (discrete and linear) time dimension in consecutive pieces of equal length (duration), called time units.
subject
a human being in his or her quality of social individual, in particular its being able to enter into and comply with commitments. Only subjects…
state view
there are two possible views on a world: the state view and the process view. In the state view, one is concerned with the possible…
