| Consumer-to-Business (C2B) systems represent the future of eCommerce. Using natural language as a basis, and remaining keenly aware of its potential pitfalls, we describe a new communication model based on a content-biased language (CBL). It is shown that the requirements of a C2B system cannot be satisfied with anything less than the stretchability of a CBL. Based on that realization, the remainder of the work strives to present a usable representation for a CBL, as well as an architecture for using that representation. The result of this work is the description of a new software quality measure called stretchability, as well as the introduction of perspective domain graphs (PDGs), external open ontological type systems (EOOTS), and global and constituent systems. The dissertation closes with the definition of a new distributed system design called the Content-Oriented Architecture (COA). |
