SIE.3:1 - Problem Frame

Use this when an integration needs to express a meaning or answer a question and the adequacy of its available models is unsettled. For example, a source describes an inspection requirement, while the receiving query needs to distinguish that requirement from an observation of a particular configured feature.

Start with one question the model must help answer and examples of answers that would count as different. Ask the domain participants to explain those distinctions before choosing an encoding. The first useful result can be confirmation that an existing model is sufficient, with its applicable edition and use conditions.

The object is the semantic model for that use: its concepts, relation meanings, constraints, and relevant commitments. The practical gain is a model whose distinctions can guide correspondence and mapping work. A stronger claim, such as adequacy for additional questions or valid inference in a formal language, needs evidence for those additional conditions.

If the supplied model is already qualified for the unchanged use, reuse that result. If the only open question is a correspondence between adequately understood source meanings, use SIE.4. A new integration endpoint alone does not create a model-construction requirement.