This paper presents a novel method of constructing a tourism e-commerce platform based on semantic web services. In order to solve the puzzles of web services discovery, system adaptability, automatically assembling and calling caused by bad system semantic interoperability in tourism e-commerce based on traditional web services, we construct a novel tourism e-commerce system framework based on...

E-tendering is widely used in corporate and government purchasing in e-business practice. Existing etendering platforms cannot solve semantic interoperability problems between heterogeneous e-tendering systems. This paper proposes a novel semantic-enriched e-tendering (SEET) approach, which enables heterogeneous e-tendering systems to be semantically connected and interoperable by applying coll...

The complexity and dynamism of distributed intelligent systems have motivated the utilization autonomic computing in such systems. However, interoperability agents order to attain self-managing properties is itself a great challenge that requires more attention. Although number semantic approaches exist for central systems, there are not many attempts develop mechanisms facilitating feedback lo...

The DCMI metadata schema registry has been developed as an authoritative source of DCMI metadata terms. The DCMI registry has an important role to enhance semantic interoperability of the metadata terms. From our experiences in the development of the DCMI registry, we have learned that the registry has large potential to serve as a center of various service functions related to metadata schemas...

Recent advances in geospatial technologies have made available large amount of geospatial data. Meanwhile, new developments in Internet and communication technologies created a shift from isolated geospatial databases to ad hoc networks of geospatial data sources, where data sources can join or leave the network, and form groups to share data and services. However, effective integration and sha...

We discuss the mathematical foundations underlying the explicit use of semantic descriptions to facilitate information and systems integration. We do not attempt to provide a formal framework that is mature enough for modeling semantic interoperability and integration, nor do we attempt to fix the foundations of such a framework yet. Instead we want to stimulate the discussion around three main...

This work researches the problem of semantic interoperability in a web environment, and investigates a conceptual approach that tailors the semantics of the shared data to that of the end user. The aim is to develop a semi-automatic integration tool that assists users to build a conceptual layer above the shared data that takes into account the users perception on the data. In addition, users s...