Facilitating Business Interoperability from the Semantic Web

Abstract

Most approaches to B2B interoperability are based on language syntax standardisation, usually by XML Schemas. However, due to XML expressivity limitations, they are difficult to put into practice because language semantics are not available for computerised means. Therefore, there are many attempts to use formal semantics for B2B based on ontologies. However, this is a difficult jump as there is already a huge XML-based B2B framework and ontology-based approaches lack momentum. Our approach to solve this impasse is based on a direct and transparent transfer of existing XML Schemas and XML data to the semantic world. This process is based on a XML Schema to web ontology mapping combined with an XML data to semantic web data one. Once in the semantic space, it is easier to integrate different business standards using ontology alignment tools and to develop business information systems thanks to semantics-aware tools.

Modeling of Collaborative Enterprises -- CSFs-Driven High-Level Requirements

“…Information asymmetry (autonomy of partners) [ Syntactic heterogeneity addressed by [66]- [71] goals or, vice versa which resources are necessary in order to fulfil a goal (Req. 6).…”

“…7) is partially granted by XBRL, an XML-based language, which aim is to facilitate the preparation, publication, exchange, and analysis of financial statements [69]. However, XBRL and XML have some limitations, due to the lack of inference mechanisms and of formal semantics [70], which is particularly useful to solve interoperability issues in the business domain [71]. In this sense, although XBRL solves the issue of syntactic heterogeneity, it does not face the problem of semantic heterogeneity.…”

Ontology-based standards development: Application of OntoStanD to ebXML business process specification schema

“…The Rhizomik project (García and Gil, 2007), however, provides facilities for automatic transformation of XML schema and XML documents to RDF and OWL documents respectively.…”

A model for B2B integration traffic systems

“…Примери таквих језика су: Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server Pages (JSP) итд. Визија семантичког Web-а претпоставља да ће подаци лоцирани било где на Web-у бити доступни и разумљиви, како људима, тако и машинама [64]. Семантички Web представља еволутивни информационо дефинисани концепт [4].…”