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The state model (SM) of an organization is the specification of the state space of the P-world. It consists of specifying the object classes, the fact types, and the result types, as well as the existential laws that hold. An SM is expressed in an Object Fact Diagram (OFD) and an Object Property List (OPL). The OPL is just a convenient way of specifying fact types that are proper (mathematical) functions, and of which the range is a set of values. One may as well specify them in an OFD, but that would make the OFD unnecessarily voluminous. The fact types in an OPL are called properties (of object classes). The OFD is fully based on the language WOSL (Chap. 5). Its legend is presented in Fig. 19.1 and 19.2.
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(2006). The State Model. In: Enterprise Ontology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33149-2_19
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