In the contexts of software architecture, service-orientation and service-oriented architecture, the term service refers to a software functionality,...

In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design...

Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting...

systems... logical construct[s] (or architecture) for defining and controlling the interfaces and... [i]ntegration of all the components of a system"...

Open systems architecture is a system design approach which aims to produce systems that are inherently interoperable and connectable without recourse...

Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...

Most service system interactions aspire to be win-win, non-coercive, and non-intrusive. However, some service systems may perform coercive service activities...

software engineering, multitier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application...

enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA)...

service-oriented business systems within a variety of architectural styles and paradigms, such as application architecture, service-oriented architecture, microservices...