Intelligent integration of distributed components: Ontology Fusion approach

The article discusses the questions of software architecture design for distributed systems that consist of multiple independent software entities (such as CORBA components or software agents). The main motivation of our approach is to provide a developer with ability to reduce difficulties in integration and adaptation of software entities into a heterogeneous distributed system. According to our approach a software entity consists of procedural and declarative parts. Procedural part can be concerned as a number of abstract software patterns and declarative part is coarse-grained knowledge of entity preferences with relevant external information.