Difference between revisions of "Second Life Grid Glossary"

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Common understanding is predicated on discussing common mental models using a common language. IEEE-1471 helps considerably:

In here components of a grid should be defined without looking at a possible implementation.

Agent: A entity (can be a real person or a bot) interacting with other agents eventually with a region.

Region: Some space. It can have any form. It can be grouped together with other regions.

Asset: some entity which can be transferred from agent to agent or from agent to region or from region to agent. It can be something like an object, texture, sound, link, landmark; It's basically just a piece of data with a type

Avatar: The representation of an agent in a region (or somewhere else, like on the web)

Viewer: A program which (possibly) controls an agent (eventually inside a region)

Service: A Web Services invocable resource which performs some task on behalf of a region

Utility: A Service, or collection of services which provides a utility which does not manifest as a region, agent or avatar within the virtual world.; Currency, Identity, Asset Storage, Messaging, Presence, and a topology management are examples of Utilities

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+== Helping system designers speak a common language ==
+Common understanding is predicated on discussing common mental models using a common language.  IEEE-1471 helps considerably:
+:* [http://www.iso-architecture.org/ieee-1471/ ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000, Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-Intensive Systems]
+:* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1471 Wikipedia:IEEE-1471]
+:* [http://www.enterprise-architecture.info/Images/Documents/IEEE%201471-2000.pdf IEEE-1471 presentation slides]
 == What are the components of a grid? ==