Title: Semantic enterprise application integration standards

Authors: Nenad Anicic, Zoran Marjanovic, Nenad Ivezic, Albert Jones

Addresses: Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Jove Ilica 154, Belgrade 11000, Serbia-Montenegro. ' Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Jove Ilica 154, Belgrade 11000, Serbia-Montenegro. ' National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. ' National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA

Abstract: This paper investigates the potential of the Semantic Web technologies to support a semantic-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) standards architecture. We give detailed information of the support that these technologies and the underlying Description Logics (DL) formalism provide for the integration task. Our main aim is to assess the potential impact of these emerging technologies on industrial interoperability efforts. In addition to that effect, we plan to use this advanced EAI standards architecture as an experimental framework in which the Semantic Web technologies are evaluated on realistic enterprise integration problems. We illustrate novel capabilities beyond the existing syntactic integration approaches when managing multiple enterprise ontologies derived from a common ontology.

Keywords: enterprise application integration; EAI; semantic technologies; standards; e-business; electronic business; semantic web; XML; OWL; industrial interoperability; enterprise integration; enterprise ontologies.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMTM.2007.011850

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2007 Vol.10 No.2/3, pp.205 - 226

Published online: 28 Dec 2006 *

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