Enabling Semantic Interoperability
Semantic Interoperability is enabled through:
Establishing base semantic representation via ontologies (class
level) and their knowledge bases (instance level)
Defining semantic mappings & transformations among ontologies
(and treating these mappings as individual theories just like
ontologies)
Defining algorithms that can determine semantic similarity and
employing their output in a semantic mapping facility that uses
ontologies
The use of ontologies & semantic mapping software can
reduce the loss of semantics (meaning) in information
exchange among heterogeneous applications, such as:
Web Services
E-Commerce, E-Business
Enterprise architectures, infrastructures, and applications
Complex C4ISR systems-of-systems
Integrated Intelligence analysis