A Framework for Semantic Checking of InformationSystems

Fifth Interop-Vlab.It Workshop on Complexity of Systems, Complexity of Interoperability in conjunction with itAIS 2012

Gonçalo Alves ; João Sarraipa ; João P. M. da Silva ; Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves

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PID  :  43182

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In this day and age, enterprises often find that their business benefits greatly if they collaborate with others in order to be more competitive and productive. However these collaborations often come with some costs since theworldwide diversity of communities has led to the development of variousknowledge representation elements, namely ontologies that, in most cases, arenot semantically equivalent. Even after solving once the establishment of a semantic alignment with other systems, they do not keep unchanged. Consequently, they need to check regularly its semantic alignment. Therefore, to aidin the resolution of this semantic interoperability problem, the authors propose aframework that intends to provide generic solutions and a mean to validate thesemantic consistency of ontologies in various scenarios, thus maintaining theinteroperability state between the enrolled systems.