On the Use of Description Logic for Semantic Interoperability of Enterprise Systems

Esma Yahia (1) , Jing Yang (1) , Alexis Aubry (1) , Hervé Panetto (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

With the growing advances in computing and communications technologies, the concept of system-of-systems (SoS) becomes widely recognized as it offers potential benefits and new challenges. Relevant perspectives related to SoS constitutes nowadays an active domain of research, among them those issues concerning the need of full interoperation. When it is related to enterprise information systems, the SoS paradigm may then be derived to a form of System-of-Information Systems (SoIS). This paper presents an overview of the features of the interoperation in SoIS and proposes guidelines to evaluate and formalize it in order to identify semantic gaps between information systems concepts and models. It provides, through an example, an approach to use Description Logic for evaluating semantic interoperability concerns.

Mots clés: System-of-Systems; Information Systems; Semantic Interoperability; Description Logic; Ontology

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Esma Yahia, Jing Yang, Alexis Aubry, Hervé Panetto. On the Use of Description Logic for Semantic Interoperability of Enterprise Systems. 4th IFAC/IFIP EI2N'2009 workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking, Nov 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal. pp.205-215, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_31⟩. ⟨hal-00416386⟩