Adaptive Information: Improving Business through Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and Enterprise Integration

• New Paradigm for considering application integration and B2B problems
• Heightens the importance of conveying meaning between systems
• Addresses movement in the EAI space toward more data handling capabilities
• Offers a solution for the multitude of managers disconnected with the latest technologies
• Leverages the technical advances made in complex data integration over 15 years
• Shifts the focus from technology solutions to information solutions
• Relies heavily on the use of practical examples, tips, definitions, and soapbox excerpts throughout the main body of text

Content:
Chapter 1 Semantic Interoperability Gives IT Meaning (pages 3–22):
Chapter 2 Information Infrastructure Issues and Problems (pages 23–38):
Chapter 3 Promise of Frictionless Information (pages 39–65):
Chapter 4 Foundations in Data Semantics (pages 69–98):
Chapter 5 Semantic Conflict Solution Patterns (pages 99–125):
Chapter 6 Metadata Archetypes (pages 127–144):
Chapter 7 Ontology Design Patterns (pages 145–194):
Chapter 8 Multimodal Interoperability Architecture (pages 195–221):
Chapter 9 Infrastructure and E?Business Patterns (pages 223–255):
Chapter 10 Capability Case Studies (pages 259–304):
Chapter 11 Adoption Strategies (pages 305–331):
Chapter 12 Tomorrow's Adaptive and Dynamic Systems (pages 333–346):