Interoperability has gained in importance and become an essential issue within the Semantic Web community. The more standardized and widespread the data manipulation tools are, the easier and more attractive using the Semantic Web approach has become. Though Semantic Web technologies can support the unambiguous identification of concepts and formally describe relationships between concepts, the...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

This paper presents a semantic-mediation architecture that enables standards-based interoperability between heterogeneous supply-chain applications. The architecture was implemented using a state-of-the-art semantic-mediation toolset for design-time and run-time integration tasks. The design-time tools supported a domain ontology definition, message annotations, message schema transformations, ...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

Nowadays, eHealth and pHealth solutions have to meet advanced interoperability challenges. Enabling pervasive computing and even autonomic computing, pHealth system architectures cover many domains, scientifically managed by specialized disciplines using their specific ontologies. Therefore, semantic interoperability has to advance from a communication protocol to an ontology coordination chall...

Enterprise Interoperability is increasingly being enabled by use of service oriented architectures for the IT systems involved. A combined use of enterprise models, ontologies and service models can facilitate better semantic interoperability of the services being provided and requested. The focus of this paper is to show that service interoperability can be supported through a model driven app...

Current technology (e.g. the Internet) has provided vast opportunities to link many information sources (e.g. databases) to many information receivers (e.g. users and applications). This link, however, provides mainly for physical interoperability. There still remains major difficulties in achieving semantic interoperability. Semantic interoperability means that sources and receivers can exchan...

This chapter argues that the notion of identity of and reference to entities (objects, individuals, instances) is fundamental in order to achieve semantic interoperability and integration between different sources of knowledge. The first step in order to integrate different information sources about an entity is to recognize that those sources describe the same entity. Unfortunately, different ...