INCITS/ISO/IEC 15944-4 : 2008

Foreword
0 Introduction
  0.1 Purpose and Overview
  0.2 Definition of Open-edi Business Transaction
      Ontology (OeBTO)
  0.3 Use of the 'Independent' and 'Trading Partner'
      Perspective in the Open-edi Ontology Work
  0.4 The 'Open-edi Business Transaction Ontology' (OeBTO)
  0.5 Organization and description of this part of ISO/IEC
      15944
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms
5 The Declarative Component of an OeBTO - Primitive and
  Derived Data Classes
  5.1 Person and Economic Resources
  5.2 The Normative Data Categories for a Business
      Transaction Involving an Economic Exchange: Resources,
      Events, and Persons Plus Their Fundamental
      Relationships
      5.2.1 Entity Definitions
      5.2.2 Relationship Definitions
  5.3 Addition of Business Event to Basic Exchange Pattern
  5.4 Extension of the OeBTO into Types
  5.5 Locations and Claims
  5.6 Adding Commitments to Economic Exchanges
  5.7 Business Transactions with Contracts
  5.8 Typifying Agreements and Business Transactions
6 The Procedural Component of an OeBTO - Business
  Transaction State Machines
  6.1 Relating Ontological Components to the Open-edi
      Business Transaction Phases
7 The Constraint Component of an OeBTO - Incorporating
  Business Rules into Business Transactions
  7.1 Business Rules and Open-edi Constraints
  7.2 OeBTO Constraint Examples
  7.3 Summary
Annex A (normative) Consolidated List of Terms and
        Definitions with Cultural Adaptability: ISO English
        and ISO French Language Equivalency
  A.1 Introduction
  A.2 ISO English and ISO French
  A.3 Cultural adaptability and quality control
  A.4 List of Terms in French Alphabetical Order
  A.5 Organization of Annex A, 'Consolidated matrix of terms
      and definitions'
  A.6 Consolidated Matrix of ISO/IEC 15944-4 Terms and
      Definitions in English and French
Annex B (informative) REA Model Background
  B.1 REA (Resource-Event-Agent) Ontology Introduction
  B.2 The Basic REA Ontology
  B.3 Adding Commitments to the Basic Exchange Ontology
  B.4 Adding Types to the Basic REA Exchange Ontology
  B.5 The Suitability of the REA Ontology within the Open-edi
      Model
Annex C (normative) Business Transaction Model (BTM): two
        classes of constraints
Bibliography

Gives a set of UML class diagrams and conceptual explanations that circumscribe the Open-edi Business Transaction Ontology. Also describes the mechanics of a business transaction state machine - the procedural component of an OeBTO - and the (internal) constraint component of OeBTO - its repository for business rules.