Index_P

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package, 358

packaged applications for metadata, 95

parse, 359

parsed character data (PCDATA), 216, 359

parsers, 213

PCDATA. See parsed character data

PCs. See personal computers

PDAs. See personal digital assistants

Peirce, Charles S., On a New List of Categories, 171

perception, 359

perception in interpretation model, 110-111

performance penalties in Web Services, 251-252

personal computers (PCs), 264

personal digital assistants (PDAs), 272, 359

personal services business process, 35, 291

pharmaceutical companies, 15

phenomenology, 8, 359

philosophical arguments, 5

philosophical theology, 9

philosophy, resources, 301-303

physical modeling, 79, 81-82

physicians, 14

Pierce, Charles, 6

platform, 359

platform boundaries, 226-227

platform independence, 242

platform rationalization, 285

platform wars, 243

Plato, 6

PMI. See Project Management Institute

PMP. See Project Management Professional

point to point, 246

point to point/store and foreword, 231

point-of-sale system, 225

point-to-point interfaces, 295

polymorphism, 84-85, 245-246, 359

polysemous, 124, 359

portal, 359

pragmatics, 9

pragmatism, 6-7, 359

precision, semantic, 29-30, 31, 360

precompiler, 360

preconditions, 360

predicate, 360

prediction in interpretation model, 113

prescriptive approaches, 4

prescriptive models, 76

primary key, 360

primary semantic flow, 23-24

primary sources for semantic elicitation, 157-160

primitive, 360

procedural approach, 140, 143, 360

procedures, 360

process reengineering, 34

process side of business systems, 21-40

capital investment in the process, 21, 36-37

flexibility of the process, 35-39

hard or rigid automation, 37, 39

manual or automated process, 38

versus efficiency, 39

humans and applications, 22-29

A2A (application to application), 28-29

A2H (application to human), 24-25

H2A (human to application), 25-26

H2A2H, 27-28

H2H (human to human), 24

semantic precision, 29-30

semantic precision ranges, 31

semantic referent, 30-31

semantic veracity, 31-32

semantically aware application, 39

semanticness of applications, 32-33

semantics in business systems, 21-22

types of processes, 33-35

processes, 360

processing data, 3

producers of Web Services, 244-245

production, 360

production rules, 136

professional jargon, 44

professional services firms in the systems integration industry, 224

program specs or program code, 228

programs, 360

Project Management Institute (PMI), 169

Project Management Professional (PMP), 169

projection, 361

property, 361

proprietary, 361

Protege, 194, 300

protocol, 361

prototype theory, 59-60

resources, 306-308

prototypes, 361

publicly traded companies, 15

publish, 361

publish/subscribe, 361

PwC, 224