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Soft Infrastructure : Class (in Ontology of Urban Infrastructure / Ontology of Urban System / Ontology of Soft Infrastructure)

Class Diagram - Ontology of Soft Infrastructure link

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This diagram describes one of the components of Urban Infrastructure called Soft Infrastructure. Soft infrastructures include the set of relevant functions necessary for the ordinary and extraordinary management of the urban system, for instance, health, emergency, law enforcement, mid-term services (e.g., waste management), and long-term services including educational and recreational.

Model Elements
Name Description
  Allocated Hard Infrastructure as a Resource : Class

It is a hard infrainstructure asset (e.g., bridge, road, street) allocated in a service provided in the context of urban system.

  Allocated Urban Human Resource : Class

It is a person or a set of people allocated in a service provided in the context of urban system.

  Allocated Urban Natural Resource : Class

It is a natural asset (e.g., river, sea, lake, soil, sky) allocated in a service provided in the context of urban system.

  Allocated Urban Resource : Class

Allocated resources as a Service (RaaS).

  Educational Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of educational services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public educational service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Element as a Resource : Class

It is everything that is used to satisfy the human needs.

  Element as a Urban Resource : Class

It is every element that is used to satisfy the human needs in the context of urban systems.

  Emergency Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of emergency services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public emergency service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Financial Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of  the financial system and the agent who provides it. For instance, the financial system (e.g., banks) provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  gs_allocated_urban_resources : Generalization Set
  Hard Infrastructure as a Resource : Class

It is the tangible infrastructure, i.e. the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, etc., that are managed as assets in the context of an urban system.

  Health Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of health services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public health service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Human Population : Class

It is a subtype of the Biological Population collective, covering the subtypes of resident, non-resident populations in a given space and at the same time.

  Institutional Agent : Class
A juridical person is a legal person who is not a natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person such as a corporation, government agency, non-governmental organization, or international organization (such as the European Union).

 

Juristic Person. An entity, such as a corporation, that is recognized as having legal personality, i.e. it is capable of enjoying and being subject to legal rights and duties. It is contrasted with a human being, who is referred to as a natural person.

Source: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100027393

  Law Enforcement Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of law enforcement services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the legal system (courts, mediation courts, policy, etc) provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Person : Class

It is every human being with the capacity to influence and act on an urban system.

  Recreational Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of recreational services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public recreational service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Soft Infrastructure : Class
Soft infrastructure refers to the intangible things needed to maintain or improve the utilities and services such as financial, health, cultural, and social in an urban system. The population uses the infrastructure of an urban system through services offered by public or private agents.
  System Element : Class

According to standard ISO/IEC 15288:2015, a system element is a discrete part of a system. A system element can be hardware, software, data, humans, processes, procedures (e.g., operator instructions), facilities, materials, and naturally occurring entities (e.g., water, organisms, minerals), or any combination.

  Transport Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of transport services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public transport service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

  Urban Human Resource : Class

Urban human resources is the set of people who make up the workforce of an urban system.

  Urban Natural Resource : Class

Urban natural resource is a set of any biological, mineral, or aesthetic asset afforded by nature without human intervention that can be used for some form of benefit, whether material (economic) or immaterial. What is considered a “resource” (or, for that matter, “natural”) has varied over time and from one society to another. Examples of assets that can be considered natural resources include forests, surface water and groundwater, and the fertile lands or the soil and minerals within them (rather than the crops that grow on them), as well as energy resources (such as petroleum, natural gas, and heated water [that is, geothermal energy]) contained within layers of rock.

 

Source: https://www.britannica.com/science/natural-resource

  Urban Resource Allocate : Class

It is an event that allocates resources (human, natural or hard infrastructure resources) to provide a service in the context of an urban system. In this event participates an agent playing the role of Urban Service Provider as well as the resource to be allocated. This event creates the historical foundational of a relationship called Urban Resource Allocation between the allocated urban resource and the Urban Service Provider.

  Urban Resource Allocation : Class

It is the (reified) relationship between the Allocated Urban Resource and Urban Service Provider grounded by the Urban Resource Allocate event.

  Urban Service : Class

It represents all services provided by a municipality, either directly or by contract, to any of its current residents. For example: sanitation, water, fire protection, parks, open space, recreation, and streets, roads, and mass transit. The Return Project views urban services as a relationship between the service consumer and the service provider in urban systems. This relation is usually formalized in a document (Normative Description) called Service Contract

  Urban Service Consumer : Class

In general, a service consumer can be anything from a system, to an application, to an artificial agent, to a person. A service consumer is a user of products and services provided by a service provider, which can be either a company or a person. In the domain represented by urban systems, we restrict the definition of service consumer to people and service provider to companies (Juridical Person). Between a service consumer and a service provider, a contract is signed and establishes a bind (a service contract) based on legal rules for the consumption of services.

  Urban Service Consumer Community : Class

It is a group of people connected by their shared interest in a service provided in a urban system.  

  Urban Service Execution : Class

It is an event that executes a service in the context of urban system (health, transport, education). In this event participates one or more allocated urban resources and an agent (Juridical Person), playing the role of Urban Service Provider. This event creates the historical foundational of a relationship called Urban Service between the allocated urban resource and the Urban Service Provider.

  Urban Service Offer : Class

It is an event that offer a service in the context of urban system such as health, transport, education (dynamic aspect). In this event participates one Urban Service Consumer Community and one or more agents (Juridical Person), playing the role of Urban Service Offeror. This event creates the historical foundational of a relationship called Urban Service Offering between Urban Service Consumer Community and the Urban Service Offeror.

  Urban Service Offering : Class

It represents the relation between Urban Service Consumer Community and Urban Service Offeror. This relation is usually presented through oral or written publicity that binds the Service Offeror.

  Urban Service Offeror : Class

It is a role plays by a Juridical Person in a relationship with the Urban Service Consumer Community. In this relation, Juridical Person offers a set of urban services for a group of people in an urban system.

  Urban Service Provider : Class

It is a role play by a Juridical Person who is active in service relationships with Urban Resources or Urban Service Consumer/Community. In this role, a Service Provider has the scope to offer, provide, and run urban services such as health, transportation, etc.

  Urban System : Class

An Urban System is a human-made system placed in a specific space and time. It is composed of essential parts, which are Infrastructure, Geosphere, and Population. Population is a collective of agents who live or use the urban space and the tangible Infrastructure (hard infrastructure) through services (soft infrastructure). In turn, the Urban Space (Geosphere) is the territory, the place where the population (resident or non-resident) lives or uses the soil as well as where the infrastructure is located.

  Water Service : Class

It is a service relation between the consumer of water services and the agent who provides it. For instance, the public water service provided by a public entity to people in a city.

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