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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