SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF E-SERVICES IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS

Nikos Papageorgiou, Yiannis Verginadis, Dimitris Apostolou, Gregoris Mentzas

2010

Abstract

Semantic interoperability is a crucial issue in enterprises when they participate in Virtual Organizations (VOs). Addressing semantic heterogeneities, detected in VOs, aims to ensure that the meaning of information exchanged is interpreted in the same way by all communicating parties and their systems. In this paper we examine how ontologies can be employed by a system of e-services for delivering interoperability to enterprises, independent of particular IT deployments. In order to support interoperability service utilities in VOs, this paper presents a top-level ontology for collaborative networked organizations (code named OCEAN). The OCEAN ontology is designed as a lightweight top-level ontology that provides a common terminological reference for e-services supporting VO collaborations. We demonstrate how the usage of OCEAN enables e-service interoperability in knowledge-intensive collaborations presenting concrete examples from the pharmaceutical industry.

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Papageorgiou N., Verginadis Y., Apostolou D. and Mentzas G. (2010). SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF E-SERVICES IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-17-1, pages 221-228. DOI: 10.5220/0002935502210228


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@conference{ice-b10,
author={Nikos Papageorgiou and Yiannis Verginadis and Dimitris Apostolou and Gregoris Mentzas},
title={SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF E-SERVICES IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={221-228},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002935502210228},
isbn={978-989-8425-17-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2010)
TI - SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY OF E-SERVICES IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-17-1
AU - Papageorgiou N.
AU - Verginadis Y.
AU - Apostolou D.
AU - Mentzas G.
PY - 2010
SP - 221
EP - 228
DO - 10.5220/0002935502210228