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Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide
by Dave McComb	ISBN:1558609172
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2004 (399 pages)
This interesting guide contains the knowledge you need to understand and assess how semantics can help your information systems. It also explores future applications of semantics, illustrating its connection to XML and the Semantic Web.

Table of Contents
	Semantics in Business Systems—The Savvy Manager's Guide
	Foreword
	Preface
	Chapter 1	-	Semantics—A Trillion-Dollar Cottage Industry
	Chapter 2	-	Business Semantics
	Chapter 3	-	The Process Side of Business Systems
	Chapter 4	-	Terms—Vocabulary, Taxonomy, and Ontology
	Chapter 5	-	Data and Object Modeling
	Chapter 6	-	Metadata
	Chapter 7	-	Interpreting Meaning
	Chapter 8	-	Business Rules and Creating Meaning
	Chapter 9	-	Semantic Elicitation—Uncovering Meaning
	Chapter 10	-	Understanding and Communicating Meaning
	Chapter 11	-	Extensible Markup Language (XML)
	Chapter 12	-	Semantic-Based Enterprise Application Integration and Systems Integration
	Chapter 13	-	Web Services
	Chapter 14	-	The Semantic Web
	Chapter 15	-	Getting Started
	Appendix A	-	Quick Reference
	Appendix B	-	Resources for Further Investigation
	Glossary
	Index
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Sidebars