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ACCESS
Defined byentitlement, throughresource relation role qualities, access determinescapabilitywith 10 mainaccess types.

ACCESS CONTROL
Anentitlement-basedprocesstomanageand control access toresources. See also:Reference Monitor.

ACCESS TYPE
Resource behavior capabilitiesare determined by 10 main access types:Reference,Consult,Modify,Notify,Instantiate,Retire,Recycle,Control,Assign,Master.

ACCOUNTING
Accounting services are indispensable operating services designed and integrated to support collaboration (e.g. portal) and knowledge usage (e.g. access) accounting. Operations like sales (e.g content, services, resources) and time management (e.g. hr) require accounting,invoicing,metering,reporting, and credit card management. These services are an integral part of collaboration and sharing. They are typically supported at the consolidated portal level, as well as for each of portal web site and application. Accounting services also usepublishingservices and resources. Accounting services in collaboration environment, require partnerorganizationdistribution and coordination.

ACQUISITION
A basicinformationmanagementpatternthat allows obtaining and deducting information from experience andprocesses. Acquitition patterns include, reading, study,analysis, experience, computing, sensing, deducting, and extrapolation.

ACTION
Unit (basic)resource transformation, e.g. generate anevent, pick item

ACTIVITY
an activity is a time-based orSchedulable relationdescribing atransformationaction of otherresource(s), in contribution to ataskor process. An activity is typically proportional to itscapabilityandrole qualities. An activity is aphase sequence, typically terminated by a completion notification event to the contributed task.

ACTUALS
Actuals are calculated (e.g. tracked)resource qualityvalues, from provided or default query/formula (e.g. metrics, XPath).

ADDRESS
A resource locator. ADNAOSnested resource to store detailed resource locations. Addresses are also typically used to reference, locate, notify, and contribute to identification of common actor resources, includingpersonandorganizationtype resources. Addresses are also indispensable in the management, communication, and sharing of information, knowledge,subscriptions, andmembership.

AGGREGATION
Processofassociating resources, bycomposition, with built-inlinks, as well as throughrelationsand associations.

ANALYSIS
A basicinformation acquisition patternthat uses studying and correlating information to increase understanding, typically deducting, inducing, and extrapolatingknowledgeand information from the analyzed subjects andresources.

APPLICATION
Theprocessof applying apattern; computing applications (e.g. programs, code) apply general patterns like networks, systems, software, pipelines, and data structures to build more specialized patterns (e.g. word processing, vehicle fleet management) for specific applications. Computing applications are typically built on/fromarchitecturemodels.

APPLICATION RESOURCES
Information and knowledge resourcesused and processed byapplications(e.g. IT), typically as program variables, or content.

ARCHETYPE
BasicBusinessand infrastructureapplication resource types. The main basicDNAOSbusinessapplicationresource archetypes (with typical modeling color codes) include:

ARCHITECTURE
Resourcestructuring principle sets, as well as their application and evolution over time and/or space. Applied in most fields and domains, including:business,applications, infrastructure, IT, building, etc, the foudational reference is that ofKnowledge Architecture. Often used as a high-level perspective of how requirements are structured and aligned with technology and processes, in a comprehensive and manageable way, architecture is also often defined by views of models of a reality. By extension, it is a process of using practices, information, and tools to assess, implement, and change design. Basic IT infrastructure architecture types, for example, can include: single station, client-server, distributed, service (e.g.SOA, REST), as well as Grid, Cloud, SaaS, etc.

ASSERTION
An assertion is astatementclaimed to be true by an actor or authority. It is asynonymforFact. [Sjir Nijssen 2010]

ASSESSMENT
Considering, analyzing, comparing, and documentingresource qualities, andbehavior.

ASSET
Resourcesowned by other resources (e.g. stocks, inventory, content).

ASSIGN
One of the 10 mainresource access types, determining resourceassignment capabilitiesthat includeconsulting behaviorsas well as allow control of therelationsthat object resources contribute to.

ASSIGNMENT
The process ofassigningor grantingrightsandprivileges, with associated responsibilities and constraints. Defined asresource relation,roles, assignments are also characterized by therulesand conditions (e.g. time, context) thatqualifythem.

ASSOCIATION
Associations are directionalrelation linksbetweensubject(e.g.from) andObject(e.g.to)resources. Associations can be direct references withuniversalunique identifiers for the respective referenced resources, or indirect references throughqueries.

ATOM
A common news feed and blog protocol, evolved and improving fromRSSprotocols. Atom is the internalDNAOSnews feed and blog protocol.

ATOMIC SENTENCE
Asentenceform which has no subsentences as syntactic component. Can be either an equation, or consist of a predicate applied to an argumentsequence. [ISO/IEC 24707:2007(E) inspired].

AUTHENTICATION
Asecurityvalidation stage used to verify and confirm resource (e.g. user)identityauthenticity. See alsoEncryption,Authorization,Entitlement.

AUTHORIZATION
Asecuritystage where authenticated resource (e.g. user) identity is used by systems and environments, to locate or gather correspondinguser resource profiles, to pass toapplications, for access control security, to operations and functionality. See alsoEncryption,Authentication,Entitlement.

AUTO-LAYOUT
Amodeling operation, available toDNAOSrich graphical modeling and administrationSOAclientapplicationsandusers, to automatically and selectively layout applicationresources,virtual profiles, and businessprocessessee alsoRotateandZoom.

AXIOM
Asentenceassumed to be true, from which others are derived, or by which they are entailed. A sentence which is never posed as a goal to be proved, but only used to prove other sentences. [ISO/IEC 24707:2007(E) inspired].

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