Solving semantic interoperability conflicts in cross-border E-government services

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-47

  Mocan, Adrian ^a   Facca, Federico M ^b   Loutas, Nikolaos ^c   Peristeras, Vassilios ^d   Goudos, Sotirios K ^e   Tarabanis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data integration; IT in public administration; Knowledge integration; Ontologies; Semantic matching; Web applications

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEB CRAWLER; WEB SERVICES;

GOVERNANCE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC DESCRIPTIONS; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SEMANTIC MATCHING; WEB APPLICATION; WEB SERVICE MODELING ONTOLOGIES;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 73449137443     PISSN: 15526283     EISSN: 15526291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2009010101     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abiteboul, S., Cluet, S., & Milo T. (1997). Correspondence and Translation for Heterogeneous Data. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory, (pp. 351-363).
2. Backhouse, J. (2005, July). D4.1: Structured account of approaches on interoperability. Technical report, FIDIS Deliverable, http://www.fidis.net/ fileadmin/fidis/deliverables.
3. de Bruijn, J., Lausen, H., Krummenacher, R., Polleres, A., Predoiu, L., Kifer, M., & Fensel, D. (2005, October). The Web Service Modeling Language (WSML). Technical report, WSML Working Draft, http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d16/d16.1/ v0.2/,.
4. Dean, M., & Schreiber, G. (2004, February). OWL Web ontology language reference. Technical report, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/.
5. European Commission (IDABC). (2004). European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European e- Government Services. http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc? id=19528.
6. Euzenat, J., Scharffe, F., Serafini, L. (2006, February). D2.2.6: Specification of the delivery alignment format. Technical report, Knowledge Web Deliverable. http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo/cooperation/kWeb/heterogeneity/deli/ kWeb-226.pdf.
7. Fensel, D., Lausen, H., Polleres, A., de Bruijn, J., Stollberg, M., Roman, D., & Domingue, J. (2006). Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology. Secaucus, NJ, USA: Springer- Verlag New York, Inc.
8. Goudos, S.K., Loutas, N., Peristeras, V., & Tarabanis, K. (2007). Public Administration Domain Ontology for a Semantic Web Services E-Government Framework. IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, USA, July 9-13.
9. Horrocks, I., Sattler, U., & Tobies, S. (1999). Practical reasoning for expressive description logics. In Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR99), (pp. 161-180).
10. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1990). Standard computer dictionary - a compilation of IEEE standard computer glossaries.
11. Kerrigan, M., Mocan, A., Tanler, M., & Fensel, D. (2007, June). The Web Service Modeling Toolkit - An Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Web Services. In Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), System Description Track, Innsbruck, Austria.
12. Kifer, M., Lausen, G., & Wu, J. (1995, July). Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages. Journal of the ACM, (42), 741-843.
13. Lausen, H., de Bruijn, J., Polleres, A., & Fensel, D. (2005). WSML - A Language Framework for Semantic Web Services. W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability.
14. MITRE (2004). Netcentric Semantic Linking Report: An Approach to Enterprise Semantic.
15. Mocan, A., & Cimpian, E. (2007). An ontologybased data mediation framework for semantic environments. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 3(2), 66-95, April-June.
16. Mocan, A., Cimpian, E., & Kerrigan, M. (2006, November). Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), Athens, Georgia, USA.
17. Noy, N.F., & Munsen, M. A. (2003). The PROMPT suite: Interactive tools for ontology merging and mapping. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 6(59).
18. Park, J., & Ram, S. (2004). Information systems interoperability: What lies beneath? ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 22(4), 595-632.
19. Peristeras, V. (2006). The Governance Enterprise Architecture - GEA - for reengineering public administration. PhD Dissertation, Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.
20. Peristeras, V., Loutas, N., Goudos, S., & Tarabanis, K. (2008). A conceptual analysis of semantic conflicts in pan-European e-government services. Journal of Information Science, 34(6), 877-891.
21. Rahm, E., & Bernstein, P. A. (2001, December). A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Schema Matching. The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, 10(4), 334-350.
22. Scharffe, F., & de Bruijn, J. (2005, December). A language to specify mappings between ontologies. In IEEE Conference on Internet- Based Systems SITIS6, Yaounde, Cameroon.
23. Silva, N., & Rocha, J. (2003). Semantic Web complex ontology mapping. In Proceedings of the IEEE Web Intelligence (WI2003), (p. 82).
24. Tambouris, E., & Tarabanis, K. (2005, June). EGovernment and interoperability. In European Conference in Electronic Government (ECEG 2005), Belgium, (pp. 399-407).
25. Tambouris, E., & Tarabanis. K. (2004). Overview of DC-based e-Government metadata standards and initiatives. International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2004), Zaragoza, Spain, (pp. 40-47)
26. Tambouris, E., Manouselis, N., & Costopoulou, C. (2007). Metadata for digital collections of egovernment resources. The Electronic Library, 25(2), 176-192.
27. Vitvar, T., Kerrigan, M., van Overeem, A., Peristeras, V., & Tarabanis, K. (2006, March). Infrastructure for the semantic pan-european e-government services. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web Meets E-Government, Stanford, CA, USA.
28. Vitvar, T., Mocan, A., Cimpian, E., Nazir, S., Wang, X., Loutas, N., Peristeras, V., Tarabanis, K., Kirgiannakis, E., Winkler, K., Dimitrov, M., Momtchev, V., & Mecella, M. (2006, Devember). D3.1: SemanticGov Architecture v.1., SemanticGov Deliverable.
29. Vitvar, T., Mocan, A., Kerrigan, M., Zaremba, M., Zaremba, M., Moran, M., Cimpian, E., Haselwanter, T., & Fensel, D. (2007). Semantically-enabled Service Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Application. Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications.
30. Witters, J., & van Overeem, A. (2004). PEGS infrastructure architecture v 1.0., IDABC.
31. Yanosy, J. (2005, August). Semantic interoperability and semantic congruence. In Collaborative Expedition Workshop..
32. Kalfoglou, Y., & Schorlemmer, M. (2003). Ontology mapping: The state of the art. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal (KER), 18(1), 1-31.
33. Kolaitis, P.G. (2005). Schema mappings, data exchange, and metadata management. In Proceedings of the twenty-fourth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, June 13-15, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland
34. Halevy, A.Y. (2001). Answering queries using views: A survey. VLDB Journal. 10(4), 270-294.
35. Ullman, J.D. (1997). Information integration using logical views. In Proceedings 6th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 97), Delphi, Greece.
36. Lenzerini, M. (2002). Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective. In Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, (pp. 233-246).
37. Batini, C., Lenzerini, M., & Navathe, S.B. (1986). A Comparative Analysis of Methodologies for Database Schema Integration. ACM Computing Survey, 18(4), 323-364.
38. Mocan, A., Kerrigan, M., Cimpian, E. (2008, June). Applying Reasoning to Instance Transformation. International Workshop on Ontologies: Reasoning and Modularity (WORM-08), Tenerife, Spain
39. Wang, X., Vitvar, T., Mocan, A., Peristeras, V., Goudos, S.K., Tarabanis, K. (2007, January). WSMOPA: Formal Specification of Public Administration Service Model on Semantic Web Service Ontology. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS2007), Hawaii
40. Peristeras, V., & Tarabanis, K. (2008). The Governance Architecture Framework and Models. In Saha, P. (Ed.). Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Information Science Reference, (ISBN: 978-1-60566-068-4)
41. Popa, L., Velegrakis, Y., Miller, R.J., Hernandez, M.A., & Fagin, R. (2002). Translating Web data. In Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases, (pp. 598-609), Hong Kong SAR, China.
42. Yan, L.L., Miller, R.J., Haas, L.M., & Fagin, R. (2001). Data-driven understanding and refinement of schema mappings. SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data), 30(2), 485-496.
43. Miller, R.J., Hernandez, M.A., Haas, L.M., Yan, L., Ho, C. T. H., Fagin, R., & Popa, L. (2001). The Clio Project: Managing Heterogeneity. SIGMOD Record, 30(1), 78-83.
44. Gomadam, K., Ranabahu, A., Ramaswamy, L., Verma, K., Sheth, A.P. (2008, August). Mediatability: Estimating the Degree of Human Involvement in XML Schema Mediation. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Santa Clara, CA.
45. Euzenat, J., & Shvaiko, P. (2007). Ontology matching. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE).
46. Aumueller, D., Do, H.-H., Massmann, S., Rahm, E. (2005). Schema and ontology matching with COMA++. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. June 14-16, Baltimore, Maryland.
47. Drumm, C., Schmitt, M., Do, H.-H., & Rahm, E. (2007, November). QuickMig - Automatic Schema Matching for Data Migration Projects. In Proceedings of ACM CIKM, Lisabon.
48. Kashyap, V., & Sheth, A. (2000). Information Brokering across Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadatabased Approach. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
49. Overeem, A., & Witters, J. (2004). Architecture for Delivering pan-European e-Government Services, IDA technical report, Capgemini.