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MAP INDEX
SeeINDEX MAP.

MANAGED RESOURCE
Arelationobject (e.g. "to")resource.

MANAGEMENT
Aprocessfamily andsequencethat includeacquisition, storage, computation,transformation,Modeling, access control, as well asresourcesandknowledge sharing.

MASTER
One of the 10 mainresource access types, determining resource instantiationcapabilitiesthat combinelife-cycle controlandassignment behaviors(e.g. full).

MEDIA
Streams and files of text, sound, music, images, animation, video, or interaction. See alsoMultimediaandNew Media.

MEANING
The semanticvalue.

MEMBERSHIP
Group belongingprocess, that is all about rights and privileges, providingaccesstoresources,services,subscriptions, andregistration

MESSAGE
A communication payload notification, betweenresources. Typically available inSOA,eMail, XML, batch, HTTP, JMS, RMI, JINI, and other standardcommunications, they are often requests or responses for/toserviceinvocations.

METADATA
Aresource archetypeused to describe resource structure and constraint specifications (e.g. qualities,rules, bindings), or information about information, for other resources. As resources,DNAOSmetadata can be defined, modified, extended, accessed, assigned, entitled, and shared at run-time.

METAMODEL
A metamodel is a recursiveschema resource archetypedescribing a set ofmetadata rulesthat definemodelconstraints and a what is a valid (e.g. conforming) model. Conceptually, metamodel is a synonym for schema.

METAPHOR
Usefuluser interfacetools, metaphors, like the computer 'desktop', application 'windows' and 'mouse' pointing are common and fairly well understood UI metaphors; their use and usefulness increase as sophistication increases; they are indispensable in interactive 3Dknowledge sharingenvironments and networkapplications.

METERING
Information and knowledge access and usage meteringservicescombineaccountingandwork-flowservices, to provide real-time measurement and costing for consumedresourcesinsessions;invoicingandtrackingservices, for example, can then use this information.

MODEL
Models areResourcesconsidered through representationviewing(e.g.views). "viewing" is not restricted to static visuals as it can also be animated and/or multimedia. See also:Modeling,Viewpoints,Perspectives,Projections,Processes, andSystems.

MODELING
Defining, representing, shaping, andprojecting ResourceslikeBusiness,Processes, andApplications. Modeling makes extensive use ofviewpointsandperspectivesto projectmodelsontoviews.

MODIFY
One of the 10 mainresource access types, determining resource modificationcapabilitiesthat includeconsulting, as well as state (e.g. quality) modification (e.g. write)behaviors.

MONITOR
SeeMonitoring.

MONITORING
Monitoring applications provide remote measurement, monitoring, and management of electrical and electronic equipment, as well as system, and process information. Monitoring applications are also typically coupled withcontrol applicationsso that processes can be both monitored and controlled, typically doubling the required number ofacquisition/monitoring/control channels and data streams. Information monitoring indistributedenvironments introduces seriouscontentand information sharingsecurityconsiderations.

MULTIMEDIA
Streams and files of any combination ofmedia. See alsoNew Media.

MVC
A commonmodelingpattern wheremodelsare typically transformed or projected ontoviews, by acontroller process.