SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE WITH EMERGENT SEMANTICS - How can systems be weakly coupled, but strongly referenced Topics: Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems; Information Engineering Methodologies; Modeling of Distributed Systems; Ontology Engineering; Semantic Web Technologies; Semiotics in Computing; Software Engineering; Systems Engineering Methodologies; Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, 283-288, 2005 , Miami, United States