Index

A

A2A (application to application), 28-29, 244, 333

A2H (application to human), 24-25, 244, 333

abduction, 333

abridged dictionaries, 42, 43

abstract, 333

abstract models, 76

Accenture, 88, 224

Access, 173

accidental, 333

ACCORD (insurance industry), 219

accretive, 333

acronym, 333

acronyms, 46

action plan. See getting started

"active" dictionary, 89

acyclic, 333

adapters, 334

agent, 334

"Agents on the Semantic Web" (Hendler), 278

aggregate, 334

Agile Methods, 166, 334

Aion, 147

algorithm, 334

algorithms, 3

aliases, 334

Al's organic mushrooms example, 275-277

Amazon.com, 245

ambiguity, 334

Ancient Greece, 6

Andersen, Arthur, 88

anonymizing, 334

Antarctica (company), 198

antonymy, 334

API. See application processing interface and application program interface

Apicella, Mario, "Making Application Ends Meet," 223

applets, 334

application architecture, 285

application design and metadata, 95

application designers, 157

application development, 3, 282-283

application packages, 283

application processing interface (API), 334

application program interface (API), 210, 236

application program interface (API) exposed as XML, 246

application servers, 334

application service providers (ASPs), 245

applications, 334

boundaries of, 131-132

creating meaning, 134-137

definition of, 131

and humans, 22-29

resources for, 313-315

semantically aware, 39

semanticness of, 32-33

Applied Semantics, 126, 273, 278

architectural planning, 160-164

architectural principle of metadata, 87

architecture, 334

Ariba, 234

artificial intelligence (AI), 7, 39, 123, 129, 334

inheritance, 84

resources, 308-309

Ascential, 173

ASCII, 216, 227, 335

ASPs. See application service providers

assert, 335

association, 335

associative database, 335

Associative Model of Data, The (Williams), 61, 191

astronomy, 9

asynchronous, 335

asynchronous approaches to meetings, 167

asynchronous interaction, 243

asynchronous processing, 247-248

atomic, 335

attribute, 335

auditability, 335

authentication, 335

automated or manual process, 38

automating a business process, 21

see also process side of business systems

Autonomy, 125-126

available, 335

Avellino, 173

axiom, 335