Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53603#.VMnrIyzQrzE Author(s) Eli Rohn Affiliation(s) Information Systems Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel . ABSTRACT Data exchange is a goal-oriented social communications system implemented through computerized technology. Data definition languages (DDLs) provide the syntax for communicating within and between organizations, illocutionary acts, such as informing, ordering and warning. Data exchange results in meaning-preserving mapping between an ensemble (a constrained variety) and its external (unconstrained) variety. Research on unsupervised structured and semi-structured data exchange has not produced any significant successes over the past fifty years. As a step towards finding a solution, this article proposes a new look at data exchange by using the principles of complex adaptive systems (CAS) to...
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