The difference between a data or language structure and the real world. For example, in order processing, a company can be both customer and supplier. Since there is no way to model this in a ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

Meaning has been given different definitions in the past. Is meaning simply the set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it? So ...

A collection of linked data on the Web to make searches more effective. Just as Web pages are linked together via hypertext, the goal of the Semantic Web is to link all available public data. As ...

The interfaces used in business intelligence and data analytics are becoming smarter, conversational, and more powerful because, at long last, computational semantics are starting to be applied. The ...

Semantic reasoning tools for databases aim to close that gap. They introduce an abstraction layer that understands business ...