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Semantic Interoperability Enablement in E-Business Modeling

Semantic Interoperability Enablement in E-Business Modeling

Janina Fengel
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781609605872|ISBN10: 160960587X|EISBN13: 9781609605889
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-587-2.ch209
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Fengel, Janina. "Semantic Interoperability Enablement in E-Business Modeling." Global Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 373-402. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-587-2.ch209

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Fengel, J. (2011). Semantic Interoperability Enablement in E-Business Modeling. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Global Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 373-402). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-587-2.ch209

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Fengel, Janina. "Semantic Interoperability Enablement in E-Business Modeling." In Global Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 373-402. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-587-2.ch209

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Abstract

Businesses all over the world are faced with the challenge of having to flexibly react to change and to dynamically work with varying business partners. For establishing electronic business, the underlying processes and subsequent IT-support need to be described clearly. For doing so, conceptual modeling has become an indispensable means. Models describe interrelated business objects and activities, expressed in a certain modeling language with elements labeled in natural language. If the decision for the labels is not dominated by rules, models are semantically heterogeneous, not only concerning their modeling language, but more importantly, concerning their domain language, making their comparison or integration a non-trivial task. For its alleviation Semantic-Web technologies are applied. Transforming legacy models of different types into ontologies allows for reusing and connecting the domain facts modeled. Here, the novel method of semantic model referencing developed for this task is used, and this chapter will show how it can provide the basis for semantic integration.

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