Current
developments support this theory; most new API versions and programming systems supply
Conceptual Model Dr ven Software Development (CMDSD)
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some sort of Web Services integration (from ancient languages like COBOL to the most
recent developments like .NET).
The.Web.of.Semantics
All afore-mentioned efforts target one underlying and ever present goal: the Semantic Web,
an information network of machine-readable data that allows autonomous agencies to gather
data, turn it into information, reason about it, and come to conclusions. This information
network will be traversed by intelligent agents to fuel new and exciting services (Joy, 2000;
McIlraith, Son, & Zeng, 2001; Metcalfe, 2000). Humans will never be able to fully utilize
the mass of data collected in the World Wide Web; thus we need to find new ways to turn
all the data into something more than a loosely connected set of HTML pages. The basic
building blocks for the Semantic Web are made up by:
??? Semi-structured.data: XML has been accepted as the means of choice to represent
platform-independent data in a semi-structured way that allows for an open-ended
way of describing data (Bray, Paoli, Maler, Sperberg-McQueen, & Paoli, 2000).
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