A Mapping Process for Application Ontologies Integration

Today, enterprise application integration is still facing many problems and the crucial one is the semantic heterogeneity. This problem is not adequately addressed by today's solutions that focus mainly on the technical and syntactical integration. Using the semantic aspect will promote enterprise applications by providing it more consistency and interoperability. The development of ontologies to encapsulate the applications heterogeneity may produce new obstacles for application ontologies integration. This article will propose a mapping process in order to address the semantic integration problem. Ontology mapping is important when working with more than one ontology. Typically similarity considerations are the basis for this. In this paper an approach to integrate various similarity strategies is presented. In brief, we determine also similarity through rules which have been derived by ontology experts.