There is a need in specific domains to develop strong interaction between agents using emerging technologies to facilitate communication and collaborative use of information. A successful implementation of these technologies enables interoperability based on real time and transparent information transfers to make decisions or to work on concurrent basis. New approaches using standards, which al...

One of the major problems facing systems for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications today is the lack of interoperability among the various systems. When integrating software applications, substantial difficulties can arise in translating information from one application to the other. In this paper, we f...

XML has become a 'lingua ubiquita' but not yet a 'lingua franca': everyone is using it, but with too many of their 'own', costly, dialects, even within particular enterprises, and without the gains so often promised. It is a standard that risks imploding, unless senior management and IT services step in to impose tightly-defined, semantic, business vocabularies as well as clear policies for the...

The shift from paper documents to their respective electronic formats is producing important advantages in the functioning of businesses and Public Administrations. However, this shift is often limited to the internal operation of each entity because of the lack of security in the electronic communication mechanisms. Traditionally, these entities have managed their Local Area Networks (LANs) or...

1. To stimulate collaboration between diverse communities bound by common objectives in the area of semantic interoperability and integration; 2. To lay the foundation for a framework and a theory for understanding and classifying technologies for semantic interoperability and integration; 3. To set the research agenda for this area with the long-term aim of building a “research pipeline” for c...

The achievement of semantic interoperability is a complex task, which affects multiple levels and functions of information systems and the information process. In this section, we propose a systematic requirements analysis of the different constituent functions necessary to achieve overall semantic interoperability in a DL environment. We begin with a clarification of terminology that tends to ...

Semantic alignment of application software components’ ontologies represents a great interest in vehicle domains that manipulate heterogeneous overlapping knowledge frameworks. In the past few years, with growth novel service requirements such as autonomous driving, V2X (Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication) and many others, automotive component models are becoming increasingly collaborative other ...

A workkow consists of a collection of activities which support a speciic business process; classical examples range from claim management in an insurance company to production scheduling in a manufacturing company to patient care management and support within an hospital. In conventional workkow systems, each business process is separately speciied and autonomously supported by a workkow manage...

Interoperability has been identified as a major issue to be addressed by every egovernment initiatives. In order to tackle this issue, the egovernment agencies have developed tools to facilitate the interchange of information between departments when providing public services to citizens and businesses through internet. This paper surveys how the egovernment agencies in Europe and the United St...

Recent years have seen rapid progress in the development of ontologies as semantic models intended to capture and represent aspects of the real world. There is, however, great variation in the quality of ontologies. If ontologies are to become progressively better in the future, more rigorously developed, and more appropriately compared, then a systematic discipline of ontology evaluation must ...