Index_E

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EAI. See enterprise application integration

EBCDIC (extended binary coded decimal interchange code), 335, 344

ebXML, 233, 257, 345

eCommerce, 345

eCommerce initiatives, 220, 284

EDI. See electronic data interchange

EDI data. See electronic data interchange (EDI) data

EDS, 224

EER. See extended or enhanced entity relationship

effectivity, 345

efficiency studies, 34

efficiency versus flexibility, 39

electronic data interchange (EDI) data, 28-29, 70, 211, 231, 298, 345

electronic media, 66

element, 345

elicit, 345

email, 24

eMarketplaces, 217, 234, 345

empiricists, 6, 345

encrypting, 345

encyclopedias, 292, 345

Enlightenment, The, 6

entailment, 345

enterprise, 345

enterprise application integration (EAI), 2, 4, 224, 245-246, 294-269, 344

resources for, 315-317

see also semantic-based EAI and SI

enterprise message model, 236-237

"Enterprise Ontology, The" (Uschold), 185

entity, 345

entity relationship (ER) modeling, 198-199, 346

"Entity-Relationship Model—Toward a Unified View of Data, The" (Chen), 78

enumerating types, 169

epistemology, 8, 346

eProcurement, 234, 346

Epstein, Richard L., Semantics Foundations of Logic, The: Predicate Logic, 202

equivalent, 346

ER modeling. See entity relationship (ER) modeling

ERP (enterprise resource planning), 346

ErWin, 238

eScout, 235

essential, 346

ETL (extract, transform, and load), 346

Evoke, 173

evulsive, 346

Ewalt, David M., "Next Web, The," 272

exabytes, 109, 346

Excel, 173

exception, 346

exciters, 146

experimentation, 282

explicit, 346

explicit models, 76

extended or enhanced entity relationship (EER), 199, 345

extensible, 205, 347

extensible markup language (XML), 2, 4, 29, 91-92, 160, 191, 198, 205-221, 297-298

adding behavior to, 220

definition of, 205-206, 375

dialects of, 217-220

generic vocabularies, 219-220

industry-specific vocabularies, 218-219

tool vocabularies, 218

features of, 207-212

data describes itself, 211

document/transaction duality, 211

readable by humans and systems, 210

rendition preserves composition, 207-210

universal adoption of, 211-212

origin of, 206-207

resources, 326-329

schemas and namespaces, 214-217

document-type definition (DTD), 214, 215

semantic scope and namespace, 216-127

standards for schemas, 214-216

XSD, 215-216

stability of, 212-213

syntax and semantics, 213-214

parsers, 213

semantics in the tags, 214

well formedness, 213

extensible stylesheets language (XSL), 218

extensional, 347

extensional referent, 30

extract, 347

extraction business process, 34

extractive processes, 290

Extreme Programming, 166