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XML has become common in Internet-based application domains such as business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. It has also formed a basis for service-oriented architectures such as Web services and the Semantic Web, particularly because ontology data employed in the Semantic Web are stored in XML. Measuring system coupling is a commonly accepted software engineering practice associated with producing high-quality software products. In many application domains, we can assess coupling in ontology-based systems before system development by measuring coupling in ontology data. (Because ontologies are built independently of applications that access them, they can be assessed for coupling before system development.) A proposed set of metrics measures coupling of ontology data in ontology-based systems represented in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), a derivative of XML. A real-world study demonstrates the metrics’ use in integrating ontologies

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The first news story, "Will the Semantic Web Quietly Revolutionize Software Engineering?" looks at attempts to leverage Semantic Web technology to improve software development. The second news story, "The Possible Futures of Service Software," reports on the conference The New Software Industry: Forces at Play, Business in Motion