Enhancing interoperability: ontology-mapping in an electronic institution

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Daniel Dinis Teixeira (Author) Other; Eugénio Oliveira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Pages: 47-62

International Workshops on Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability, ATOP 2008

Estoril, 12 May 2008 through 13 May 2008

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electronic engineering ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-007-Q9H

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01668-4_3

Abstract (EN): The automation of B2B processes requires a high level of interoperability between potentially disparate systems. We model such systems using software agents (representing enterprises), which interact using specific protocols. When considering open environments, interoperability problems are even more challenging. Addressing business automation as a task that intends to align businesses through a tight integration of processes may not be desirable, because business relationships may be temporary and dynamic. Furthermore, openness implies heterogeneity of technologies, processes, and even domain ontologies. After discussing these issues, this paper presents, in the context of an Electronic Institution, an ontology-mapping service that enables the automation of negotiation protocols when agents may use different ontologies to represent their domain knowledge. The ontology-mapping service employs two approaches used for lexical and semantic similarity, namely N-Grams and WordNet, and poses few requirements on the ontologies' representation format. Examples are provided that illustrate the integration of ontology-mapping with automated negotiation. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16