ISO/IEC 19763-7:2015

Information technology — Metamodel framework for interoperability (MFI) — Part 7: Metamodel for service model registration

The primary purpose of the multipart standard ISO/IEC 19763 is to specify a metamodel framework for interoperability. ISO/IEC 19763-7:2015 specifies a metamodel for registering models of services, facilitating interoperability through the reuse of services. ISO/IEC 19763-7:2015 is only applicable to web services whose capabilities are described by some web service description language (see Annex A for examples of such languages). Figure 1 shows the scope of ISO/IEC 19763‑7:2015.

Technologies de l'information — Cadre du métamodèle pour l'interopérabilité (MFI) — Partie 7: Métamodèle pour l'enregistrement du modèle de service

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 14-Oct-2015
• ICS: 35.040 - Information coding
• ICS: 35.040.50 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 - Data management and interchange
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 - MetaData
• Current Stage: 9092 - International Standard to be revised
• Start Date: 07-May-2025
• Completion Date: 17-May-2025

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 19763-7
First edition
2015-10-15
Information technology —
Metamodel framework for
interoperability (MFI) —
Part 7:
Metamodel for service model
registration
Technologies de l’information — Cadre du métamodèle pour
l’interopérabilité (MFI) —
Partie 7: Métamodèle pour l’enregistrement du modèle de service
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ISO/IEC 2015
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Contents Page
Foreword . v
Introduction . vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 2
3.1 Terms and definitions . 2
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 4
4 Conformance . 5
4.1 General . 5
4.2 Degree of conformance . 5
4.2.1 General . 5
4.2.2 Strictly conforming implementation . 5
4.2.3 Conforming implementation . 5
4.3 Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) . 5
5 MFI Service model registration . 6
5.1 Overview of MFI Service model registration . 6
5.2 Associations between MFI Service model registration and other parts in MFI . 7
5.3 Structure of MFI Service model registration . 8
5.3.1 Atomic_Expression . 8
5.3.2 Composite_Expression . 9
5.3.3 Exit_Condition . 9
5.3.4 Expression . 10
5.3.5 Input_Message . 11
5.3.6 Message_Type . 11
5.3.7 Output_Message . 12
5.3.8 Postcondition . 13
5.3.9 Precondition . 13
5.3.10 QoS_Assertion . 14
5.3.11 QoS_Type . 14
5.3.12 Service . 15
5.3.13 Service_Description_Language . 16
5.3.14 Service_Model . 16
5.3.15 Service_Operation . 17
5.3.16 Service_Type . 18
5.3.17 User_Tag . 18
Annex A (informative) List of existing service description languages . 19
Annex B (informative) Examples . 20
Bibliography . 35

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Figures
Figure 1 — Scope of MFI Service model registration . 1
Figure 2 —Metamodel of MFI service model registration . 6
Figure 3 —The associations between MFI Service model registration and MFI Process model registration and

MFI Role and Goal model registration . 7
Figure 4 —The associations between MFI Service model registration and MFI Core and mapping . 8
Figure B.1 –The service model of Hotel_Reservation in WSDL 2.0 notation (fragment) (Part 1 of 2) . 21
Figure B.1 –The service model of Hotel_Reservation in WSDL 2.0 notation (fragment) (Part 2 of 2) . 22
Figure B.2 –Registration of the Hotel_Reservation example . 23
Figure B.3 –The service model of Book_Ticket in WSML notation (fragment) . 24
Figure B.4 –Registration of the Book_Ticket example (Part 1 of 2) . 25
Figure B.4 –Registration of the Book_Ticket example (Part 2 of 2) . 26
Figure B.5 –The service model of Search_item in WADL notation (fragment) . 27
Figure B.6 –Registration of the Search_Item example . 28
Figure B.7 –The service model of Congo_BookBuying_Agent in OWL-S notation (fragment) (Part 1 of 4) . 29
Figure B.7 –The service model of Congo_BookBuying_Agent in OWL-S notation (fragment) (Part 2 of 4) . 30
Figure B.7 – The service model of Congo_BookBuying_Agent in OWL-S notation (fragment) (Part 3 of 4) . 31
Figure B.7 – The service model of Congo_BookBuying_Agent in OWL-S notation (fragment) (Part 4 of 4) . 32
Figure B.8 –Registration of the Congo_BookBuying_Agent example (Part 1 of 2) . 33
Figure B.8 –Registration of the Congo_BookBuying_Agent example (Part 2 of 2) . 34

Tables
Table A.1 - List of existing service description languages . 19

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Foreword
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ISO/IEC 19763-7 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information Technology,
Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and Interchange.
ISO/IEC 19763 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Metamodel
framework for interoperability (MFI):
 Part 1: Framework
 Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration
 Part 5: Metamodel for process model registration
 Part 6: Registry summary
 Part 7: Metamodel for service model registration
 Part 8: Metamodel for role and goal model registration
 Part 9: On demand model selection [Technical Report]
 Part 10: Core model and basic mapping
 Part 12: Metamodel for information model registration
 Part 13: Metamodel for form design registration
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Introduction
With the rapid development of SOC (Service Oriented Computing), more and more computing resources are
presented in the form of web services. Meanwhile, business integration based on web services is becoming a
popular application development method. A web service is a kind of web based application which
encapsulates one or more computing modules and is designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine
interaction over a network.
In web service registration and management, ebXML RegRep is a standard defining the service interface,
protocols and information model for an integrated registry and repository, which provides basic support for
publishing and discovering web services within and across enterprises. Nevertheless, keyword matching is the
basic service discovery method in ebXML RegRep, thus the discovery results will be inevitably inaccurate,
and the discovery process will be time-consuming. When business information interchange and integration
becomes increasingly frequent, major work in web service discovery should be processed by machines. It is,
therefore, necessary to semantically describe service information, including functional and non-functional
information, and provide corresponding registration and management mechanism.
This part of ISO/IEC 19763 provides a framework for registering generic functional and non-functional
information about web services.

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 19763-7:2015(E)

Information technology — Metamodel framework for
interoperability (MFI) — Part 7: Metamodel for service model
registration
1 Scope
The primary purpose of the multipart standard ISO/IEC 19763 is to specify a metamodel framework for
interoperability. This part of ISO/IEC 19763 specifies a metamodel for registering models of services,
facilitating interoperability through the reuse of services.
This part of ISO/IEC 19763 is only applicable to web services whose capabilities are described by some web
service description language (see Annex A for examples of such languages). Figure 1 shows the scope of
this part of ISO/IEC 19763.
NOTE: Not every model needs to exist in a repository before registration
Figure 1 — Scope of MFI
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