An Ontology-Based Method for Semantic Integration of Business Components

TL;DR

This paper proposes an ontology-based approach for integrating reusable Business Components in information systems, addressing semantic conflicts through ontology alignment and enrichment methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method combining Business Component integration with ontology alignment and enrichment for semantic conflict resolution.

Findings

Effective semantic conflict detection and resolution

Enhanced domain ontology for better alignment

Improved integration process for Business Components

Abstract

Building new business information systems from reusable components is today an approach widely adopted and used. Using this approach in analysis and design phases presents a great interest and requires the use of a particular class of components called Business Components (BC). Business Components are today developed by several manufacturers and are available in many repositories. However, reusing and integrating them in a new Information System requires detection and resolution of semantic conflicts. Moreover, most of integration and semantic conflict resolution systems rely on ontology alignment methods based on domain ontology. This work is positioned at the intersection of two research areas: Integration of reusable Business Components and alignment of ontologies for semantic conflict resolution. Our contribution concerns both the proposal of a BC integration solution based on ontologies alignment and a method for enriching the domain ontology used as a support for alignment.