Preventing ontology interoperability problems instead of solving them

Preventing ontology interoperability problems instead of solving them

A major source of interoperability problems on the Semantic Web are the different vocabularies used in metadata descriptions. This paper argues that instead of solving interoperability problems we should focus more effort on avoiding the problems in the first place, in the spirit of Albert Einstein's quote "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them". For this purpose, coordinated coll...

Use of Ontology for Solving Interoperability Problems between Enterprises

When trying to solve interoperability problems between enterprises, the semantic issues are important. To date, they are more and more focused on ontology. This paper presents how to use ontology in the PBMEI method, aimed at solving enterprise interoperability problems in modelling environment. During the elaboration of PBMEI, the necessary ontology information is explicitly specified. Because...

Solving Terminological Inconsistency Problems in Ontology Design

Information models and ontologies, although originally developed for different applications and most often used in different disciplines, share several common features. It is natural to assume that techniques applicable for knowledge representation tasks based on ontologies, can be used for information models as well. In this paper, the focus will be on resolving inconsistencies in ontology des...

Solving Interoperability Problems on a Federation of Software Process Systems

Software process components that share information and that cooperate for common tasks lead to multiple problems of interoperability. Some based-interoperability approaches have been proposed. However, more problems remain to be solved to enable the heterogeneous process components interoperability at execution level. This paper presents a process-based approach (architecture) for the federatio...

Temporal Reasoning Problems and Algorithms for Solving Them