Semantics in business systems the savvy manager's guide : the discipline underlying web services, business rules, and the Semantic Web

Semantics in Business Systems begins with a description of what semantics are and how they affect business systems. It examines four main aspects of the application of semantics to systems, specifically: How do we infer meaning from unstructured information, how do application systems make meaning a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McComb, Dave
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, Calif. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2004
Series:The savvy manager's guides
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Semantics : a trillion-dollar cottage industry
  • Business semantics
  • The process side of business systems
  • Terms : vocabulary, taxonomy, and ontology
  • Data and object modeling
  • Metadata
  • Interpreting meaning
  • Business rules and creating meaning
  • Semantic elicitation : uncovering meaning
  • Understanding and communicating meaning
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML)
  • Semantic-based enterprise application integration and systems integration
  • Web services
  • The Semantic Web
  • Getting started
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-332) and index