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MENTOR: an enabler for interoperable intelligent systemsFootnote

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Pages 557-573 | Received 25 May 2009, Accepted 10 Nov 2009, Published online: 13 May 2010
 

Abstract

A community with knowledge organisation based on ontologies will enable an increase in the computational intelligence of its information systems. However, due to the worldwide diversity of communities, a high number of knowledge representation elements, which are not semantically coincident, have appeared representing the same segment of reality, becoming a barrier to business communications. Even if a domain community uses the same kind of technologies in its information systems, such as ontologies, it doesn't solve its semantics differences. In order to solve this interoperability problem, a solution is to use a reference ontology as an intermediary in the communications between the community enterprises and the outside, while allowing the enterprises to keep their own ontology and semantics unchanged internally. This work proposes MENTOR, a methodology to support the development of a common reference ontology for a group of organisations sharing the same business domain. This methodology is based on the mediator ontology (MO) concept, which assists the semantic transformations among each enterprise's ontology and the referential one. The MO enables each organisation to keep its own terminology, glossary and ontological structures, while providing seamless communication and interaction with the others.

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the European Commission for its support and partial funding and the partners of the research projects: INTEROP NoE (Network of Excellence), iSurf and INNOVAFUN.

Notes

1. Based on ‘MENTOR – A Methodology for Enterprise Reference Ontology Development’, by J. Sarraipa, J.P.M.A. Silva, R. Jardim-Gonçalves and A.A.C. Monteiro, which appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems IS'08, pp. 6-32–6-40.

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Notes on contributors

Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves

2. 2. [email protected]

Adolfo Steiger-Garcao

3. 3. [email protected]

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