• SOA Source Book
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) Version 2
• SOA Reference Architecture
• Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) Framework
• Using TOGAF to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures
• SOA Governance Framework
• Service-Oriented Architecture Ontology Version 2.0
• Introduction
• System and Element
• HumanActor and Task
• Service, ServiceContract, and ServiceInterface
• Composition and its Subclasses
• Policy
• Event
• Complete Car Wash Example
• Internet Purchase Example
• The OWL Definition of the Ontology
• Relationship to Other SOA Standards
• Class Relationship Matrix
• Referenced Documents
• Acknowledgements
• Legal
• Legacy Evolution to SOA
• Microservices Architecture
• SOA for Business Technology
• Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture
• SOA in the Digital Age

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Service-Oriented Architecture Ontology Version 2.0 – Referenced Documents

The following documents are referenced in this standard:

• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Version 1.1, Object Management Group; available from www.omg.org.
• Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation, Barry Smith; available from http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/BeyondConcepts.pdf.
• Definition of SOA: The Open Group; available from www.opengroup.org/soa/soa/def.htm#_Definition_of_SOA.
• IEEE Std 1471-2000: IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-intensive Systems (adopted by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 as ISO/IEC 42010:2007); available from standards.ieee.org.
• IETF RFC 2119: Key Words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, March 1997; refer to www.ietf.org.
• ISO/IEC 42010:2007: Systems and Software Engineering – Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-intensive Systems; available from www.iso.org.
• Navigating the SOA Open Standards Landscape Around Architecture (W096), White Paper published by The Open Group, November 2009.
• OASIS Reference Model for Service-Oriented Architecture, Version 1.0, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS); available from www.oasis-open.org.
• OWL Web Ontology Language Reference, W3C Recommendation, 10 February 2004, World-Wide Web Consortium; available from www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref.
• Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML), Object Management Group; available from www.omg.org.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), The Open Group; available from www.opengroup.org.
• What is an Ontology? Stanford University; available from www?ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html.