A semi-automated system for interoperability assessment: an ontology-based approach

ABSTRACT

A plethora of approaches to assess the ability of companies to interoperate can be found in the literature. Nevertheless, most of the current assessment approaches are following manual-conducted processes, which can be laborious, time-consuming and costly. Therefore, this paper aims at developing a knowledge-based system for supporting an interoperability assessment process using an ontology as its knowledge model. The resulting system allows identifying potential interoperability problems and related solutions based on the knowledge model including information of the assessed enterprise(s). A real business case is presented for evaluating the proposed approach.

KEYWORDS:

• Enterprise interoperability
• interoperability assessment
• knowledge-based system
• ontology
• ontology-based system

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/IMAPS.

2. superdecisions.com.

3. http://cmmiinstitute.com/capability-maturity-model-integration.

4. https://netbeans.apache.org/.

5. https://www.java.com/.

6. github.com/owlcs/owlapi.

7. BPMN stands for Business Process Model Notation. It is a standard managed by the Open Management Group. Its objective is to provide a framework and a modelling language for designing business processes.

Additional information

Funding

This work has been conducted in the context of the PLATINE project (PLAnning Transformation Interoperability in Networked Enterprises), financed by the national fund of research of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (FNR), under the grant [C14/IS/8329172/R2].