Ebook: Semantics in Business Systems. The Savvy Manager's Guide The Discipline Underlying Web Services, Business Rules, and the Semantic Web

Content:
Foreword, Pages xiii-xv
Preface, Pages xvii-xix
Acknowledgements, Pages xxi-xxii
Chapter 1 - Semantics: A Trillion-Dollar Cottage Industry, Pages 1-10
Chapter 2 - Business Semantics, Pages 11-20
Chapter 3 - The Process Side of Business Systems, Pages 21-40
Chapter 4 - Terms: Vocabulary, Taxonomy, and Ontology, Pages 41-64
Chapter 5 - Data and Object Modeling, Pages 65-85
Chapter 6 - Metadata, Pages 87-107
Chapter 7 - Interpreting Meaning, Pages 109-127
Chapter 8 - Business Rules and Creating Meaning, Pages 129-156
Chapter 9 - Semantic Elicitation: Uncovering Meaning, Pages 157-181
Chapter 10 - Understanding and Communicating Meaning, Pages 183-204
Chapter 11 - Extensible Markup Language (XML), Pages 205-221
Chapter 12 - Semantic-Based Enterprise Application Integration and Systems Integration, Pages 223-239
Chapter 13 - Web Services, Pages 241-262
Chapter 14 - The Semantic Web, Pages 263-280
Chapter 15 - Getting Started, Pages 281-287
Appendix A - Quick Reference, Pages 289-300
Appendix B - Resources for Further Investigation, Pages 301-332
Glossary, Pages 333-376
Index, Pages 377-398