Semantic interoperability

Using DCOM to support interoperability in forest ecosystem management decision support systems

“…• Semantic interoperability ensures that exchanges of services and data make sense, that is, that the client and the server have a common understanding of the meanings of the requested services and data (Heiler 1995). Semantic interoperability is often closely linked to notational interoperability because issues associated with notational interoperability can and do lead to semantic conflicts in many cases (Heiler 1995).…”

“…Semantic interoperability is often closely linked to notational interoperability because issues associated with notational interoperability can and do lead to semantic conflicts in many cases (Heiler 1995).…”

“…For example, interoperability can be realized with reasonable efforts for a wide range of differences in data formats and for recognized differences of representation (Wegner 1996). Semantic interoperability, however, may be hard to achieve in many cases (Heiler 1995 There are two major mechanisms for interoperation: interface standardization and interface bridging (Wegner 1996). Interface standardization links client and server interfaces to predefined standards whereas interface bridging is a two-way linkage between a client and server.…”

“…Interoperability is the ability of two or more software components to cooperate by exchanging services and data with one another, despite the possible heterogeneity in their language, interface and hardware platform (Heiler 1995, Wegner 1996, Sheth 1998 (Manola 1995). Distributed computing offers many advantages, including location transparency to users, scalability (adding more capability by adding more computers to the network), fault tolerance (allowing processing to continue even when a computer or network connection is broken), load balancing (sharing the work load equally among the networked computers) and resource sharing (sharing databases or other special services).…”

Achieving Interoperability through Semantics-Based Technologies: The Instant Messaging Case

“…Furthermore, in pervasive environments where there is no a priori knowledge about the concrete applications to be connected, it is essential to guarantee that the applications associate the same meaning to the data they exchange, i.e., semantic interoperability [10]. Ontologies support semantic interoperability by providing a machine-interpretable means to automatically reason about the meaning of data based on the shared understanding of the application domain [1].…”