Nowadays, companies are very dynamic, thus increasing their competitiveness is mandatory. This competitiveness is associated with dynamics and flexibility, a fast product changeover is needed. Interoperability has an important role to implement these features that companies need, in order to reduce time, effort and money. This paper describes how the production process can be improved with sema...

The Internet of Things (IoT) idea, explored across the globe, brings about an important issue: how to achieve interoperability among multiple existing (and constantly created) IoT platforms. In this context, in January 2016, the European Commission has funded seven projects that are to deal with various aspects of interoperability in the Internet of Things. Among them, the INTERIoT project is a...

Today, we make a separation between the real/physical world and the Internet. It is time for these two be blended and provide ubiquitous access and interoperability online. We are approaching Internet of Things a forthcoming technological revolution that will radically change our environment and enable innovative applications and services. To make this happen, we have to eliminate the fragmenta...

The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. In order to find these services the concepts underlying their implementation have to be matched against the requirements resulting from the question. It is in this matchmaking process where semantic heterogeneity has ...

Cloud Computing represents an evolution of information systems. This technology is suitable for large groups but also for SMEs that offers a very high computing power at lower costs. It is used to interconnect several organizations disregarding their geographic location, and transforms current computer infrastructures and services. Cloud computing brings a new approach to computing, a different...

Within the context of Europe’s e-Health strategy, interoperability is the only sustainable way to help partners acting in various locations, with different expertise, perspectives, agendas and status, even cultures and languages, and using distinct information systems from different vendors, to collaborate harmoniously to deliver quality healthcare. Furthermore, to meet the technical demands fo...

Achieving automatic interoperability among systems with diverse data structures and languages expressing different viewpoints is a goal that has been difficult to accomplish. This paper describes S-Match, an open source semantic matching framework that tackles the semantic interoperability problem by transforming several data structures such as business catalogs, web directories, conceptual mod...

Achieving automatic interoperability among systems with diverse data structures and languages expressing different viewpoints is a goal that has been difficult to accomplish. This paper describes S-Match, an open source semantic matching framework that tackles the semantic interoperability problem by transforming several data structures such as business catalogs, web directories, conceptual mod...

1. Increased focus on multi-functional and multi-national operations brings new requirements to military command and control, in addition to other capability requirements. Parallel but separate from this development, interoperability has been of major concern within Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for years, especially in connection with standards for distributed simulations, e.g. High Level Arch...

The Semantic Web is arising over the pas few years as a realistic option for a world wide Information Infrastructure, with its promises of semantic interoperability and serendipitous reuse. In this paper we will analyse the essential ingredients of semantic technologies, what makes them suitable as the foundation for the Information Infrastructure, and what the alternatives to semantic technolo...