Purpose:
Representing service offer and delivery and the relationships between various participating agents agents.
Scope:
All types of services in the industrial domain
IOF Service Ontology
Primary Terms:
- Service Offering
- Commercial Service
- Manufacturing Service
- Service Provider Role
- Service Consumer Role
- Service Plan Specification
- Service Provide
- Service Consumer
- Manufacturing Service Provider Role
- Test Service Provider Role
- Transportation Service Provider Role
| Commercial Service | Planned Process that has proper-occurrent-parts, some Act of Service Provisioning and some an Act of Consumption that coincide temporally, and that is prescribed by a Service Agreement, and in which some Agents playing causal roles in the respective occurrent parts, are parties of the agreement. |
| Manufacturing Service | A Commercial Service which 1) includes at least one manufacturing process as process part and 2) an Agent satisfies the manufacturing needs of another agent.. |
| Service Offering | A descriptive information content entity that describes a service provided by as service provider. |
| Service Plan Specification | A directive information content entity with service action specifications and service objective specifications as parts that, when concretized, is realized in an Act of Service.
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| Service Objective Specification | An Objective Specification that describes an intended end results of a service. |
| Service Action Specification | An Action Specification composed of a sequence of instructions to achieve some objectives described by a service objective specification. |
| Service Consumer Role | A role which inheres in an Agent who consumes a Service |
| Service Provider Role | A Supplier Role that is borne by an Agent to provide a Service to some Agent. |