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B

B2B. See business-to-business

B2C. See business-to-consumer

Bacon, Francis, 6

Balu, Rekha, "(Re)Writing Code," 1

Bayesian statistics, 124

BEA, 224, 257

BearingPoint, 224

behavior, 336

behavior and categorization, 63

Berkeley, George, 6

Berners-Lee, Tim, 206, 263, 300

"Cool URI's Don't Change," 268

Berners-Lee, Tim, Hendler, James, and Lassila, Ora, "Semantic Web, The," 263

bill of material, 336

binary, 336

bind, 336

binding issues, 227

biologic taxonomy, 52, 55

bit, 336

Biztalk, 257, 336

Black's Law Dictionary, 46, 48

Blaze, 147

blocking, 336

BMPL, 257

BNF (Bakus-Naur form), 336

boilerplate, 67

bootstrapping, 336

bots, 336

bozo list, 278, 337

BPEL4S, 220

BPEL4WS. See business process execution language for Web Services

BPSS. See business process specification schema

Bray, Tim, 198

"What Is RDF?," 267-268

broker, 337

bursty, 337

business correspondence, 67

Business Integrity, 19

business language and vocabularies, 42-51

business process, 290-291

business process execution language for Web Services (BPEL4WS), 22, 257, 337

Business Process Management Initiative, 257

business process specification schema (BPSS), 257, 337

business rules, 296-297

definition of, 145, 148

resources, 309-310

Business Rules Applied Building Better Systems Using the Business Rule Approach (Von Halle), 146, 147

Business Rules Book Classifying, Defining and Modeling Rules, The (Ross), 146, 147, 150

business rules and creating meaning, 129-156

applications creating meaning, 134-137

constraints, 135

production rules, 136

queries, 136-137

schema, 134-135

business rules improving systems maintenance, 139-145

declarative approach, 140

model-based approach, 141

procedural approach, 140, 143

rule-based approach, 141-145

business systems as semantic factories, 129-133

application boundaries, 131-132

application definition, 131

noise, 132-133

traditional business software, 131

constraint rules, 141

generative rules, 152-153

calculated data, 152-153

derived information, 142

generating user interfaces from rules, 153

interpretation versus imposition of meaning, 137-139

scope and schema, 154-155

semantics and business rules, 145-149

amplifying each other, 150-151

categorizing business rules, 146

semantic evolution of business rules, 146-148

terms, facts, and rules, 148-149

triggering the execution of rules, 153-154

Business Rules Group, 2, 129, 145

business semantics, 11-20

abuse of language, 11-12

description of things, 12-14

product identification, 12-113

recording of transactions, 14

restated earnings, 14-15

see also contracts

business systems, 2

as semantic factories, 129-133

and semantics, 9-10

see also process side of business systems

Business Week, "Next Web, The," 263

business-to-business (B2B), 215, 224, 233, 234, 237, 239, 335

resources, 315-317

business-to-business (B2B) and eCommerce initiatives, 284

business-to-consumer (B2C), 336

byte, 337

byte order, 227