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Tightness of Coupling & Semantic Explicitness
Text Box: Data
Data
Text Box: Application
Application
Implicit, TIGHT
Explicit, Loose
1 System: Small Set of Developers
Local
Far
Same Process Space
Same
Address
Space
Same CPU
Same OS
Same Programming Language
Same DBMS
Same Local Area Network
Systems of Systems
Enterprise
Community
Internet
Same Wide Area Network
Same Intranet
Federated DBs
Data Warehouses
Data Marts
Ontologies
Linking
Libraries
OOP
Agent Programming
Web  Services: SOAP
Distributed Systems
Applets
Semantic Mappings
Semantic Brokers
Looseness of Coupling
Text Box: Semantics Explicitness
Semantics Explicitness
From Local, Tight, Implicit To Far, Loose, Explicit
XML
Conceptual Models
RDF/S, OWL
Web Services: UDDI, WSDL
OWL-S
Modal Policies