Semantic technologies
Today, the Internet provides us with a vast amount of information. The amount of information and the number of users are rapidly increasing, and the use of the information is changing. However, the difficulties when trying to harness and extract relevant and correct information hinder efficient usage of it. In addition there is an increasing amount of B2B or B2C services available on the net. Developers of applications using such services are now faced with similar problems. How can they:
- discover and reuse existing available services,
- integrate services developed in different context in a efficient way, and
- how can we get the system to propose and adapt service compositions as new services become available or old services no longer exist?
There is a need for developing better technology that take the underlying semantics into account.
Interoperability
Enterprises are today faced with a number of challenges related to interoperability. Interoperability is the ability for two or more systems (or organisations) to exchange information and to utilise the information in a meaningful way. Interoperability is not limited to technical integration challenges, it can also be addressed from an organisational point of view (e.g. restructuring or merger), where integration of business processes, workflows and different software systems are important.
Interoperability has four dimensions:
- Enterprise – business processes and its environments
- Knowledge – organisational roles, competence and skills
- ICT – technical aspects related to applications, data and communications
- Semantics – precise definitions and common understanding of the enterprise, knowledge and ICT
SINTEF has a long track record of research within these 4 dimensions and can address the complexity of interoperability challenges from different view points. We have developed frameworks and methods for enterprise architecture and ICT-architecture which address different aspects of interoperability.
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Titi Roman