Theories of meaning in schema matching: An exploratory study

Evermann, Jöerg

doi:10.1016/j.is.2008.04.001

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“…It could be particularly productive to work in conjunction with other projects that explore local government domains the in the context of semantic web technologies 6 . This review highlights the scope for further work in this area.…”

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Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Lumsden

Hall

Cruickshank

2011

Journal of Information Science

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Ontology development is considered to be a useful approach to the design and implementation of interoperable systems. This literature review and commentary examines the current state of knowledge in this field with particular reference to processes involved in assuring epistemological adequacy. It takes the perspective of the information systems practitioner keen to adopt a systematic approach to in-house ontology design, taking into consideration previously published work. The study arises from author involvement in an integration/interoperability project on systems that support Scottish Common Housing Registers in which, ultimately, ontological modelling was not deployed. Issues concerning the agreement of meaning, and the implications for the creation of interoperable systems, are discussed. The extent to which those theories, methods and frameworks provide practitioners with a usable set of tools is explored, and examples of practical applications of ontological modelling are noted. The findings from the review of the literature demonstrate a number of difficulties faced by information systems practitioners keen to develop and deploy domain ontologies. A major problem is deciding which broad approach to take: to rely on automatic ontology construction techniques, or to rely on key words and domain experts to develop ontologies.

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“…More recent studies confirm such findings. For example, research completed in 2009 reveals how domain experts and knowledge engineers present a range of interpretations of the same data [6].…”

Section: Ontologies Epistemological Adequacy and Systems Interoperabmentioning

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Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Lumsden

Hall

Cruickshank

2011

Journal of Information Science

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“…Among the existing approaches for addressing those semantic associations, we can cite ontology mapping [28], schema matching [29], [30] and [31] and schema morphism [32]. These approaches typically compute similarities by relating entities via semantic relationships, with, sometimes, a qualitative measure.…”

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Formal measures for semantic interoperability assessment in cooperative enterprise information systems

Yahia

Aubry

Panetto

2012

Computers in Industry

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International audienceThe growing complexity of modern organisations poses a series of challenges, among them the cooperation between autonomous and heterogeneous information systems in distributed networks. Actually, Information Systems (IS) are said to be cooperative if they share common goals in their environment and jointly contribute to achieve these common goals. Obviously, this presupposes the ability to exchange information and then to use it in accordance with each information system required. In the literature, these features refer to interoperability. In this context, one of the main issues concerns the evaluation of the lack of interoperability between Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) through the measurement of their semantic gaps. In order to achieve this purpose, this paper proposes a mathematical formalisation of the semantic relationships between CIS conceptual models. The resulting formal model is then analysed for evaluating the lack of interoperability implications to the global information systems shared goals. The proposed approach is illustrated through a case study dealing with a B2M (Business to Manufacturing) interoperability requirement between an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) application

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“…To achieve this, the expert can take profits from existing approaches (schema matching ( (Evermann, 2009), (Rahm and Bernstein, 2001)) and morphism (Goguen and Burstall, 1984), ontology mapping ( (Kalfoglou and Schorlemmer, 2003), (Choi, Song and Han, 2006)). The goal of this paper is not to develop such an approach.…”

Section: Semantic Relationshipmentioning

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Semantics enactment for interoperability assessment in enterprise information systems

Yahia¹,

Lezoche²,

Aubry³

et al. 2012

Annual Reviews in Control

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The grown complexity of the modern enterprise poses a series of challenges, among them keeping competitiveness in the fast changing environment in which the enterprise evolves. Addressing Enterprise Integration is considered as a key to achieve the goal of any enterprise either it is a single or a networked enterprise. Enterprise Modelling is a prerequisite to enable the common understanding of the enterprises and its various interactions in order to "provide the right information, at the right time, at the right place". However, problems often emerge from a lack of understanding of the semantics of the elaborated models resulting from various modelling experience based on different methods and tools. This paper describes the challenges associated to semantics enactment in Information Systems models. To facilitate this enactment, it proposes an approach based on a fact-oriented modelling perspective. Then, it also provides an algorithm to automatically build semantic aggregates that help in highlighting Enterprise Models core embedded semantics. A case study on the field of B2M interoperability is performed in order to illustrate the application of the presented approach.

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Theories of meaning in schema matching: An exploratory study

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Ontology definition and construction, and epistemological adequacy for systems interoperability: A practitioner analysis

Formal measures for semantic interoperability assessment in cooperative enterprise information systems

Semantics enactment for interoperability assessment in enterprise information systems

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