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A '''Semantic Service Oriented Architecture''' ('''SSOA''') is an architecture that allows for scalable and controlled Enterprise Application Integration solutions.<ref>[http://www.wsmx.org/papers/publications/SSOA.pdf Exposing Semantic Web Service principles in SOA to solve EAI scenarios]
</ref> SSOA describes an approach to enterprise-scale IT infrastructure. It leverages rich, machine-interpretable descriptions of data, services, and processes to enable [[Software agent|software agent]]s to autonomously interact to perform critical mission functions. SSOA is technically founded on three notions:

# The principles of [[Service-oriented architecture]] (SOA);
# Standard Based Design (SBD); and
# [[Philosophy:Semantics|Semantics]]-based computing.

SSOA combines and implements these computer science concepts into a robust, extensible architecture capable of enabling complex, powerful functions.<ref>[http://www.semsoa.com/html/papers/SSOA_WhitePaper_short.html Semantic Service Oriented Architecture: White Paper Overview]
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== Applications ==
In the [[Medicine:Health care|health care]] industry, SSOA of HL7 has long been implemented{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}.  Other protocols include [[LOINC]], [[Organization:Public Health Information Network|PHIN]], and [[Medicine:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act|HIPAA]] related standards.  There is a series of SSOA-related [[Organization:International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] standards published for [[Finance:Financial services|financial services]], which can be found at the ISO's website<ref name=icrd>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 35.240.15: Identification cards and related devices
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=15&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref name=iab>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 35.240.40: IT applications in banking
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=40&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref><sup>,</sup>.<ref name=fbmi>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 03.060: Finances. Banking. Monetary systems. Insurance
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=03&ICS2=060&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref> Some financial sectors also adopt EMV standards to facilitate European consumers.  A part of SSOA on transport and trade are in the ISO sections of 03.220.20 and 35.240.60<ref name=rt>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 03.220.20: Road transport
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=03&ICS2=060&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref><sup>,</sup>.<ref name=iatt>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 35.240.60: IT applications in transport and trade
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=60&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref>  Some general guidelines of the technology and the standards in other fields are partially located at 25.040.40, 35.240.99<ref name=ipmc>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 25.040.40: Industrial process measurement and control
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=25&ICS2=040&ICS3=40&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref><sup>,</sup><ref name=iaof>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 35.240.99: IT applications in other fields
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=99&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref><sup>,</sup>.<ref name=al>{{cite web
  | last = International Organization for Standardization
  | title = 35.100.70: Application layer
  | url = http://www.iso.org/iso/products/standards/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=35&ICS2=100&ICS3=70&
  | access-date = 8 February 2008 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Cyber security standards]]
* ISO/IEC 7816
* [[ISO 8583]]
* ISO/IEC 8859
* [[ISO 9241]]
* [[ISO 9660]]
* ISO/IEC 11179
* ISO/IEC 15408
* ISO/IEC 17799
* ISO/IEC 27000-series
* Service component architecture
* Semantic web
* EMML
* [[Finance:Business Intelligence 2.0|Business Intelligence 2.0]] (BI 2.0)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.osgi.org/ OSGi Alliance]

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