ISO/IEC 18384-3:2016
(Main)Information technology — Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) — Part 3: Service Oriented Architecture ontology
Information technology — Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) — Part 3: Service Oriented Architecture ontology
ISO/IEC 18384-3:2016 defines a formal ontology for service-oriented architecture (SOA), an architectural style that supports service orientation. The terms defined in this ontology are key terms from the vocabulary in ISO/IEC 18384-1.
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Information technology — Reference
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Service Oriented Architecture
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Technologie de l’information — Architecture de référence pour
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Contents Page
Foreword .vi
Introduction .vii
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions . 1
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 1
4 Notations. 2
5 Conventions . 2
6 Conformance . 2
7 SOA Ontology Overview . 3
7.1 At a Glance . 3
7.2 Intended Use . 5
7.3 Applications . 5
8 System and Element . 5
8.1 Overview . 5
8.2 The Element Class . 6
8.3 The uses and usedBy Properties . 6
8.4 Element — Organizational Example . 7
8.5 The System Class . 7
8.6 System — Examples . 8
8.6.1 Organizational Example. 8
8.6.2 Service composition Example. 8
8.6.3 Car wash Example . 8
8.7 The represents and representedBy Properties . 9
8.8 The represents and representedBy Examples .10
8.8.1 Organizational Example.10
8.8.2 Car Wash Example .10
9 HumanActor and Task .11
9.1 Overview .11
9.2 The HumanActor Class .11
9.3 HumanActor — Examples .12
9.3.1 The uses and usedBy Properties Applied to HumanActor .12
9.3.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to HumanActor .12
9.3.3 Organizational Example.12
9.3.4 Car Wash Example .13
9.4 The Task Class .13
9.5 The does and doneBy Properties .13
9.6 Task — Examples .14
9.6.1 The uses and usedBy Properties Applied to Task .14
9.6.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to Task .14
9.6.3 Organizational Example.14
9.6.4 Car Wash Example .15
10 Service, ServiceContract, and ServiceInterface .15
10.1 Overview .15
10.2 The Service Class .16
10.3 The performs and performedBy Properties .16
10.4 Service Consumers and Service Providers.17
10.5 Service — Examples .17
10.5.1 The uses and usedBy properties Applied to Service .17
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10.5.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to Service .18
10.5.3 Exemplifying the Difference Between Doing a Task and Performing a Service .18
10.5.4 Car Wash Example .18
10.6 The ServiceContract Class .18
10.7 The interactionAspect and legalAspect Datatype Properties .19
10.8 The hasContract and isContractFor Properties .20
10.9 The involvesParty and isPartyTo Properties .20
10.10 The Effect Class .21
10.11 The specifies and isSpecifiedBy Properties .22
10.12 ServiceContract — Examples .22
10.12.1 Service-level Agreements .22
10.12.2 Service Sourcing .23
10.12.3 Car Wash Example .23
10.13 The ServiceInterface Class .23
10.14 The Constraints Datatype Property .24
10.15 The hasInterface and isInterfaceOf Properties .25
10.16 The InformationType Class .25
10.17 The hasInput and isInputAt Properties .26
10.18 The hasOutput and isOutputAt Properties .26
10.19 Examples .26
10.19.1 Interaction Sequencing .26
10.19.2 Car wash example .27
11 Composition and its Subclasses .27
11.1 Overview .27
11.2 The Composition Class .27
11.3 The compositionPattern Datatype Property .28
11.3.1 Overview .28
11.3.2 The Orchestration Composition Pattern .29
11.3.3 The Choreography Composition Pattern .29
11.3.4 The Collaboration Composition Pattern .29
11.4 The orchestrates and orchestratedBy Properties .31
11.5 The ServiceComposition Class .32
11.6 The Process Class .32
11.7 Service Composition and Process Examples .33
11.7.1 Simple Service Composition Example .33
11.7.2 Process Example .33
11.7.3 Process and Service Composition Example .34
11.7.4 Car Wash Example .34
12 Policy .34
12.1 Overview .34
12.2 The Policy Class .34
12.3 The appliesTo and isSubjectTo Properties .35
12.4 The setsPolicy and isSetBy Properties .35
12.5 Examples .36
12.5.1 Car Wash Example .36
13 Event .36
13.1 Overview .36
13.2 The Event Class .36
13.3 The generates and generatedBy Properties.37
13.4 The respondsTo and respondedToBy Properties .37
Annex A (informative) Complete Car Wash Example .39
Annex B (informative) Internet Purchase Example .44
Annex C (normative) The OWL Definition of the SOA Ontology .46
Annex D (informative) Class Relationship Matrix .55
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Annex E (informative) Terms Mapping Between the SOA RA Parts .59
Bibliography .74
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Foreword
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The committee responsible for this document is ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee
SC 38, Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms.
ISO/IEC 18384 consists of the following parts, under the general title Reference Architecture for Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA RA):
— Part 1: Terminology and concepts for SOA
— Part 2: Reference Architecture for SOA Solutions
— Part 3: Service Oriented Architecture Ontology
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Introduction
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style in which business and IT systems are
designed in terms of services available at an interface and the outcomes of these services. A service
is a logical representation of a set of activities that has specified outcomes, is self-contained, it may be
composed of other services but consumers of the service need not be aware of any internal structure.
SOA takes “service” as its basic element to constitute and integrate information systems so that they are
suitable for a variety of solution requirements. SOA enables interactions between businesses without
needing to specify aspects of any particular business domain. Using the SOA architectural style can
improve the efficiency of developing information systems and integrating and reusing IT resources. In
addition, using the SOA architectural style can help enable rapid response of information systems to
ever-changing business needs.
This International Standard is intended to be a single set of SOA technical principles, specific norms,
and standards for the world-wide market to help remove confusion about SOA and improve the
standardization and quality of solutions.
This International Standard defines the terminology, technical principles, reference architecture
and the ontology for SOA. ISO/IEC 18384 can be used to introduce SOA concepts, as a guide to the
development and management of SOA solutions, as well as be referenced by business and industry
standards.
This International Standard contains three parts:
1) ISO/IEC 18384-1 which defines the terminology, basic technical principles and concepts for SOA.
2) ISO/IEC 18384-2 which defines the detailed SOA reference architecture layers, including a
metamodel, capabilities, architectural building blocks, as well as types of services in SOA solutions.
3) ISO/IEC 18384-3 which defines the core concepts of SOA and their relationships in the Ontology.
The targeted audience of this International Standard includes, but is not limited to, standards
organizations, architects, architecture methodologists, system and software designers, business
people, SOA service providers, SOA solution and service developers, and SOA service consumers who
are interested in adopting and developing SOA.
Users of this International Standard will find it useful to read ISO/IEC 18384-1 for an understanding of
SOA basics. ISO/IEC 18384-1 should be read before reading or applying ISO/IEC 18384-2. For those new
to the SOA reference architecture in ISO/IEC 18384-2:2016, Clause 4 provides a high level understanding
of the reference architecture for SOA solutions. The remaining clauses provide comprehensive details
of the architectural building blocks and tradeoffs needed for a SOA Solution. This part of ISO/IEC 18384
contains the SOA Ontology, which is a formalism of the core concepts and terminology of SOA, with
mappings to both UML and OWL. The SOA Ontology can be used independent of or in conjunction with
ISO/IEC 18384-1 and ISO/IEC 18384-2.
The purpose of this part of ISO/IEC 18384 is to contribute to developing and fostering common
understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to improve alignment between the
business and information technology communities and facilitate SOA adoption.
The SOA Ontology defines the concepts, terminology, and semantics of SOA in both business and
technical terms, in order to
— create a foundation for further work in domain-specific areas,
— enable communications between business and technical people,
— enhance the understanding of SOA concepts in the business and technical communities,
— provide a means to state problems and opportunities clearly and unambiguously to promote mutual
understanding, and
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— provide a starting point for model-driven development of SOA solutions.
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Information technology — Reference Architecture for
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) —
Part 3:
Service Oriented Architecture ontology
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 18384 defines a formal ontology for service-oriented architecture (SOA), an
architectural style that supports service orientation. The terms defined in this ontology are key terms
from the vocabulary in ISO/IEC 18384-1.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 18384-1, Information technology — Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA
RA) — Part 1 Terminology and concepts for SOA
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 18384-1 and the
following apply.
3.1.1
opaque
having no internal structure that is visible to an external observer
3.1.2
ontology
model that represents a domain and is used to reason about the objects in that domain and the relations
between them
Note 1 to entry: This part of ISO/IEC 18384 is high level and not meant to be used for formal reasoning.
[SOURCE: ISO/IEC/TR 24800-1:2007, 2.1.9]
3.2 Abbreviated terms
For the purposes of this document, the following abbreviated terms apply.
ABB Architecture Building Block
BPMN Business Process Model and Notation
EA Enterprise Architecture
ESB Enterprise Service Bus
IT Information Technology
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OWL Web Ontology Language
RA Reference Architecture
RDF Resource Definition Framework
SLA Service Level Agreement
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
UML Unified Modeling Language
4 Notations
The ontology is represented in the web ontology language (OWL) defined by the World Wide Web
Consortium. OWL has three increasingly expressive sub-languages: OWL-Lite, OWL-DL, and OWL-
Full (see Reference [10] for a definition of these three dialects of OWL). This ontology uses OWL-DL,
the sub-language that provides the greatest expressiveness possible while retaining computational
completeness and decidability.
The ontology contains classes and properties corresponding to the concepts of SOA. The formal
OWL definitions are supplemented by natural language descriptions of the concepts, with graphic
illustrations of the relations betw
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67 Contents Page
68 Foreword . 8
69 Introduction . 9
70 1 Scope . 12
71 2 Normative references . 12
72 3 Terms and Definitions . 12
73 3.1 Definitions. 12
74 3.1.1 Opaque . 12
75 3.1.2 Ontology . 12
76 3.2 Acronyms. 13
77 3.3 Notations . 13
78 3.4 Conventions . 14
79 3.5 Conformance . 14
80 4 SOA Ontology Overview . 15
81 4.1 At a Glance . 15
82 4.2 Intended Use. 17
83 4.3 Applications. 17
84 5 System and Element . 18
85 5.1 Overiew . 18
86 5.2 The Element Class . 18
87 5.3 The uses and usedBy Properties . 19
88 5.4 Element – Organizational Example . 19
89 5.5 The System Class . 20
90 5.6 System – Examples . 21
91 5.6.1 Organizational Example . 21
92 5.6.2 Service Composition Example . 21
93 5.6.3 Car Wash Example . 21
94 5.7 The represents and representedBy Properties . 21
95 5.8 Represents and representedBy Examples . 23
96 5.8.1 Organizational Example . 23
97 5.8.2 Car Wash Example . 23
98 6 HumanActor and Task . 24
99 6.1 Overview . 24
100 6.2 The HumanActor Class . 24
101 6.3 HumanActor – Examples . 25
102 6.3.1 The uses and usedBy Properties Applied to HumanActor . 25
103 6.3.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to HumanActor . 25
104 6.3.3 Organizational Example . 26
105 6.3.4 Car Wash Example . 26
106 6.4 The Task Class . 26
107 6.5 The does and doneBy Properties . 27
108 6.6 Task – Examples . 28
109 6.6.1 The uses and usedBy Properties Applied to Task . 28
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110 6.6.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to Task . 28
111 6.6.3 Organizational Example . 28
112 6.6.4 Car Wash Example . 28
113 7 Service, ServiceContract, and ServiceInterface . 29
114 7.1 Overview . 29
115 7.2 The Service Class . 30
116 7.3 The performs and performedBy Properties . 30
117 7.4 Service Consumers and Service Providers . 31
118 7.5 Service – Examples . 31
119 7.5.1 The uses and usedBy Properties Applied to Service . 31
120 7.5.2 The represents and representedBy Properties Applied to Service . 32
121 7.5.3 Exemplifying the Difference between Doing a Task and Performing a Service . 32
122 7.5.4 Car Wash Example . 32
123 7.6 The ServiceContract Class . 33
124 7.7 The interactionAspect and legalAspect Datatype Properties . 33
125 7.8 The hasContract and isContractFor Properties. 35
126 7.9 The involvesParty and isPartyTo Properties . 35
127 7.10 The Effect Class . 36
128 7.11 The specifies and isSpecifiedBy Properties . 37
129 7.12 ServiceContract – Examples. 38
130 7.12.1 Service-Level Agreements . 38
131 7.12.2 Service Sourcing . 38
132 7.12.3 Car Wash Example . 38
133 7.13 The ServiceInterface Class . 38
134 7.14 The Constraints Datatype Property . 39
135 7.15 The hasInterface and isInterfaceOf Properties . 40
136 7.16 The InformationType Class . 41
137 7.17 The hasInput and isInputAt Properties . 41
138 7.18 The hasOutput and isOutputAt Properties . 42
139 7.19 Examples . 42
140 7.19.1 Interaction Sequencing . 42
141 7.19.2 Car Wash Example . 43
142 8 Composition and its Subclasses . 43
143 8.1 Overview . 43
144 8.2 The Composition Class . 43
145 8.3 The compositionPattern Datatype Property . 44
146 8.3.1 Overview . 44
147 8.3.2 The Orchestration Composition Pattern . 45
148 8.3.3 The Choreography Composition Pattern . 45
149 8.3.4 The Collaboration Composition Pattern . 46
150 8.4 The orchestrates and orchestratedBy Properties . 46
151 8.5 The ServiceComposition Class . 47
152 8.6 The Process Class . 48
153 8.7 Service Composition and Process Examples . 49
154 8.7.1 Simple Service Composition Example . 49
155 8.7.2 Process Example . 50
156 8.7.3 Process and Service Composition Example . 50
157 8.7.4 Car Wash Example . 50
158 9 Policy . 50
159 9.1 Overview . 50
160 9.2 The Policy Class . 50
161 9.3 The appliesTo and isSubjectTo Properties . 51
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162 9.4 The setsPolicy and isSetBy Properties . 52
163 9.5 Examples . 53
164 9.5.1 Car Wash Example . 53
165 10 Event . 53
166 10.1 Overview . 53
167 10.2 The Event Class . 53
168 10.3 The generates and generatedBy Properties . 54
169 10.4 The respondsTo and respondedToBy Properties . 54
170 Annex A (Informative) Complete Car Wash Example. 56
171 Annex B (Informative) Internet Purchase Example . 63
172 Annex C (Normative) The OWL Definition of the SOA Ontology . 65
173 Annex D (Informative) Class Relationship Matrix. 77
174 Annex E (Informative) Terms Mapping between the SOA RA Parts . 80
175 Bibliography . 93
176
177
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178 Table of Figures
179 Figure 1 ― SOA Ontology – Graphical Overview . 16
180 Figure 2 — The Element Class . 18
181 Figure 3 — The System Class . 20
182 Figure 4 — The represents and representedBy Properties . 22
183 Figure 5 ― The HumanActor Class . 25
184 Figure 6 ― The Task Class . 27
185
Figure 7 — The Service Class . 30
186 Figure 8 — The ServiceContract Class . 33
187 Figure 9 — The Effect Class . 36
188 Figure 10 — The ServiceInterface Class . 39
189 Figure 11 — The InformationType Class . 41
190 Figure 12 — The Composition Class . 44
191 Figure 13 ― The ServiceComposition Class . 48
192 Figure 14 — The Process Class . 49
193 Figure 15 ― The Policy Class . 51
194 Figure 16 ― The Event Class . 54
195 Figure A.1 ― Car Wash Example – The Organizational Aspect . 57
196 Figure A.2 ― Car Wash Example – The Washing Services . 59
197 Figure A.3 ― Car Wash Example – The Washing Processes . 61
198
199
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200 Foreword
201 ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards
202 bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through
203 ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has
204 been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations,
205 governmental and knon-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely
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207 International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
208 The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards
209 adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an
210 International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote.
211 ISO 18384 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/JTC 1, Subcommittee SC 38, Cloud Computing and
212 Distributed Platforms.
213 ISO/IEC FDIS 18384 consists of three parts, under the general title: Reference Architecture for Service
214 Oriented Architecture
215 ISO/IEC FDIS 18384-1, Information technology – Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture –
216 Part 1: Terminology and Concepts for SOA
217 ISO/IEC FDIS 18384-2, Information technology – Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture –
218 Part 2: Reference Architecture for SOA Solutions
219 ISO/IEC FDIS 18384-3, Information technology – Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture –
220 Part 3: SOA Ontology
221 Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
222 rights. ISO/IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
223
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224 Introduction
225 Service Oriented Architecture (abbreviated SOA) is an architectural style in which business and IT systems
226 are designed in terms of services available at an interface and the outcomes of these services. A service is a
227 logical representation of a set of activities that has specified outcomes and is self-contained, it may be
228 composed of other services but consumers of the service (3.1.20) need not be aware of any internal
229 structure.
230 SOA takes ‘service’ as its basic element to constitute and integrate information systems so that they are
231 suitable for a variety of solution requirements. SOA enables interactions between businesses without needing
232 to specify aspects of any particular business domain. Using the SOA architectural style can improve the
233 efficiency of developing information systems, and integrating and reusing IT resources. In addition, using the
234 SOA architectural style can help enable rapid response of information systems to ever-changing business
235 needs.
236 ISO/IEC 18384 is intended to be a single set of SOA technical principles, specific norms, and standards for
237 the world-wide market to help remove confusion about SOA and improve the standardization and quality of
238 solutions.
239 ISO/IEC 18384 defines the terminology, technical principles, reference architecture and ontology for SOA.
240 ISO/IEC 18384 can be used to introduce SOA concepts, as a guide to the development and management of
241 SOA solutions, as well as be referenced by business and industry standards
242 This ISO/IEC 18384 contains three parts:
243 1. Part 1: Terminology and Concepts – which defines the terminology, basic technical principles and
244 concepts for SOA
245 2. Part 2: Reference Architecture for SOA Solutions – which defines the detailed SOA reference
246 architecture layers, including a metamodel, capabilities, architectural building blocks, as well as types of
247 services in SOA solutions.
248 3. Part 3: SOA Ontology – which defines the core concepts of SOA and their relationships in
249 anOntology.
250 The targeted audience of ISO/IEC 18384 includes, but is not limited to, standards organizations;
251 architects, architecture methodologists, system and software designers, business people, SOA service
252 providers, SOA solution and service developers, and SOA service consumers who are interested in
253 adopting and developing SOA.
254 Users of ISO/IEC 18384 will find it useful to read ISOIEC 18384-1 for an understanding of SOA basics.
255 ISOIEC 18384-1 should be read before reading or applying ISOIEC 18384-2. For those new to the SOA
256 reference architecture, clause 4 in ISOIEC 18384-2 provides a high level understanding of the Reference
257 Architecture for SOA Solutions. The remaining clauses provide comprehensive details of the architectural
258 building blocks and tradeoffs needed for a SOA Solution. This part of this International Standard contains the
259 SOA Ontology, which is a formalism of the core concepts and terminology of SOA, with mappings to both
260 UML and OWL. The SOA Ontology can be used independent of or in conjunction with the other two Parts.
261 The purpose of this part of this International Standard is to contribute to developing and fostering common
262 understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to improve alignment between the business
263 and information technology communities, and facilitate SOA adoption.
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264 The SOA Ontology defines the concepts, terminology, and semantics of SOA in both business and technical
265 terms, in order to:
266 • Create a foundation for further work in domain-specific areas
267 • Enable communications between business and technical people
268 • Enhance the understanding of SOA concepts in the business and technical communities
269 • Provide a means to state problems and opportunities clearly and unambiguously to promote mutual
270 understanding
271 • It may provide a starting point for model-driven development of SOA solutions
272
273 The content of this part of this International Standard is defined in the following clauses:
274 Forward – abstract for this part
275 Introduction – high level overview of this Part
276 Clause 1 – Scope
277 Clause 2 Normative references
278 Clause 3 – Terminology – defines terms used when discussing or designing Service Oriented Solutions.
279 Terms defined here are used in some unique fashion for SOA. It does not define terms that are used in
280 general English manner.
281 Clause 4 – SOA ontology overview - provides an introduction to the SOA ontology.
282 Clauses 5 through 10 provide the formal definitions (OWL and natural language) of the terms and
283 concepts included in the ontology organized as follows:
284 Clause 5 – System and Element – describes the System and Element concepts
285 Clause 6 – Human Actor and Task – describes the Human Actor and Task concepts
286 Clause 7 – Service, Service Contract, and Service Interface – describes the Service, Service Contract
287 and Service Interface concepts
288 Clause 8 – Composition and its Subclasses– describes the Composition concepts
289 Clause 9 – Policy– describes the Policy concept
290 Clause 10 – Event– describes the Event concept
291 Annex A contains the complete car wash example that is used as a common example throughout.
292 Annex B contains an additional elaborate example utilizing most of the classes in the ontology.
293 Annex C contains the formal OWL definitions of the ontology, collected together.
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294 Annex D contains a relationship matrix that details the class relationships implied by the OWL definitions
295 of the ontology.
296 Annex E conatins a mapping of the terms from ISO/IEC 18384-1 to the terms and concepts in this part of
297 this International Standard and identifies where the terms are discussed in 18384-2 .
298 Bibliography
299
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ISO/IEC FDIS 18384 Part 3
300 1 Scope
301 This part of this International Standard defines a formal ontology for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), an
302 architectural style that supports service orientation. The terms defined in this ontology are key terms from the
303 vocabulary in ISO/IEC 18384-1.
304 2 Normative reference
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