Resource Oriented Computing (ROC) is a simple abstract computing model used for describing, designing, and implementing software and software systems. The fundamental idea behind ROC is derived from the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

, Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

, and other sources as well as original research conducted at Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

 Laboratories.

Fundamental concepts

Resource-oriented computing describes an abstract computing model. The fundamental idea is that sets of information known as resources are treated as abstracts; that is, a resource is a Platonic concept of the information that is the subject of a computation process.

Resources are identified by logical addresses (typically a URI

Úri

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) and processing is defined using compositions and sequences of resource requests.

At the physical level, a ROC system process resource-representations, executes transformations and, in so doing, computes new resources. In this respect ROC is no different to any other computational model - computation is performed to collate and reveal new information.

The fundamental principles of ROC include:
Resource

Resource (computer science)

A resource, or system resource, is any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system. Every device connected to a computer system is a resource. Every internal system component is a resource...

 : A resource is an abstract set of information.
identity

Identity (object-oriented programming)

An identity in object-oriented programming, object-oriented design and object-oriented analysis describes the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects. This is closely related to the philosophical concept of identity....

: Each resource may be identified by one or more logical identifiers.
Resolution: A logical identifier may be resolved within an information-context to obtain a physical resource-representation.
Computation

Computation

Computation is defined as any type of calculation. Also defined as use of computer technology in Information processing.Computation is a process following a well-defined model understood and expressed in an algorithm, protocol, network topology, etc...

: Computation is the reification

Reification (computer science)

Reification is the process by which an abstract idea about a computer program is turned into an explicit data model or other object created in a programming language. A computable/addressable object — a resource — is created in a system as a proxy for a non computable/addressable object...

 of a resource to a physical resource-representation.
Immutability

Immutable object

In object-oriented and functional programming, an immutable object is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created. This is in contrast to a mutable object, which can be modified after it is created...

: Resource representations are immutable.
Transreption: Transreption (short for transrepresentation) is the isomorphic lossless transformation of one physical resource-representation to another.