%0 Conference Paper %1 Elenius/2007/Purpose-Aware %A Elenius, Daniel %A Johnson, Mark %A Ford, Reginald %A Denker, Grit %A Martin, David %B Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea %C Berlin, Heidelberg %D 2007 %E Aberer, Karl %E Choi, Key-Sun %E Noy, Natasha %E Allemang, Dean %E Lee, Kyung-Il %E Nixon, Lyndon J B %E Golbeck, Jennifer %E Mika, Peter %E Maynard, Diana %E Schreiber, Guus %E Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe %I Springer Verlag %K 2007 application_software heterogeneous in_use_3 interoperability iswc ontology_(computer_science) reasoning semantic_web system tool training %P 743--756 %T Purpose-Aware Reasoning about Interoperability of Heterogeneous Training Systems %U http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/743.pdf %V 4825 %X We describe a novel approach by which software can assess the ability of a confederation of heterogeneous systems to interoperate to achieve a given purpose. The approach uses ontologies and knowledge bases (KBs) to capture the salient characteristics of systems, on the one hand, and of tasks for which these systems will be employed, on the other. Rules are used to represent the conditions under whichthe capabilities provided by systems can fulfill the capabilities needed to support the roles and interactions that make up each task. An Analyzer component employs these KBs and rules to determine if a given confederation will be adequate, to generate suitable confederations from a collection of available systems, to pre-diagnose potential interoperability problems that might arise, and to suggest system configuration options that will help to make interoperability possible. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach using a prototype Analyzer and KBs.

@inproceedings{Elenius/2007/Purpose-Aware, abstract = {We describe a novel approach by which software can assess the ability of a confederation of heterogeneous systems to interoperate to achieve a given purpose. The approach uses ontologies and knowledge bases (KBs) to capture the salient characteristics of systems, on the one hand, and of tasks for which these systems will be employed, on the other. Rules are used to represent the conditions under whichthe capabilities provided by systems can fulfill the capabilities needed to support the roles and interactions that make up each task. An Analyzer component employs these KBs and rules to determine if a given confederation will be adequate, to generate suitable confederations from a collection of available systems, to pre-diagnose potential interoperability problems that might arise, and to suggest system configuration options that will help to make interoperability possible. We have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach using a prototype Analyzer and KBs.}, added-at = {2007-11-07T19:13:58.000+0100}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Elenius, Daniel and Johnson, Mark and Ford, Reginald and Denker, Grit and Martin, David}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/225ad67b501d348937afa715368368bda/iswc2007}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea}, crossref = {http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/proceedings}, editor = {Aberer, Karl and Choi, Key-Sun and Noy, Natasha and Allemang, Dean and Lee, Kyung-Il and Nixon, Lyndon J B and Golbeck, Jennifer and Mika, Peter and Maynard, Diana and Schreiber, Guus and Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe}, interhash = {44b2b050aaf327b25507e8042302f54b}, intrahash = {25ad67b501d348937afa715368368bda}, keywords = {2007 application_software heterogeneous in_use_3 interoperability iswc ontology_(computer_science) reasoning semantic_web system tool training}, month = {November}, pages = {743--756}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2007-11-07T19:20:54.000+0100}, title = {Purpose-Aware Reasoning about Interoperability of Heterogeneous Training Systems}, url = {http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/papers/743.pdf}, volume = 4825, year = 2007 }