View MODAF:SV-12a Service Provision View

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Overview*

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p46:

The SV-12 series of views specify standard configurations that deliver services. These may be configurations of resources (SV-12a) or configurations which utilise other services (SV-12b). In both cases, these views specify how services are implemented. They do not specify the services themselves (this is covered by the Service Oriented Viewpoint), nor do they describe deployed services.

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The SV-12a Service Provision View is part of the MODAF System Viewpoint and one of the 47 MODAF views*.

Version & Date

Version 1.2.004.

* =  changed at 1.2.004

+ =  new at 1.2.004

See MODAF Release History.

Purpose

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p46:

The SV-12a Service Provision View specifies configurations of resources that can deliver a service, and the levels of service those resources can deliver in different environments.

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Background*

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p46:

The Service Oriented Views (SOVs) in MODAF provide a specification of what a service is to do and how it presents its functionality to service consumers. The SOVs deliberately avoid specifying how a service is to be implemented, so that maximum creative flexibility is available to service providers. However, when a service is implemented (and its implementation specified in the architecture), it is useful to know what resources are used to implement it. SV-12a provides the mapping from services to the resources that provide those services. An SV-12a may also show the inverse relationship of when a resource uses a service.

Note that SV-12a does not describe actual deployed resources that deliver a service, it specifies typical configurations (i.e. templates) of resources that together can deliver the services.

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Description*

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p47:

An SV-12a maps a resource (which may be constructed of other resources) to the services it can provide. SV-12 products are usually presented as a structural model (eg a UML composite structure), with tracing relationships to services. It is also be possible to present an SV-12a as a table, with services on one axis and resources on the other. Care should be taken with this approach, however, as it tends to hide any underlying structure the resources might have.

A given implementation may provide a different level of service depending on the environment in which is it used. The service attributes defined in SOV-1 can be given values in an SV-12a and related to the environment under which those values are true.

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Data Objects

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p46:

The data in an SV-12a can include:

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Configuration History

1.2.004 View number changed to SV-12a. Adds Service Level

1.2.003 used to be SV-12

Comments

Other Frameworks

See also:

From The MODAF System Viewpoint (SV) p46:

Note that the MODAF SV-12a differs to the strict NAF definition in NSV-12, Service Provision, which only shows where NAF::Systems contribute to NAF:Services. In addition, certain parts of the NAF documentation refer to this view as NSV-13, System Service Provision.

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References


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