A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An Ontology-Driven Service-Oriented Approach

Saïd Izza, Lucien Vincent, Patrick Burlat

2005

Abstract

The crucial problem of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is the semantic integration problem. This latter is not correctly addressed by today's EAI solutions that focus mainly on the technical and syntactical integration. Addressing the semantic aspect will promote EAI by providing it more consistency and robustness. Some efforts are suggested to solve the semantic problem, but they are still not mature. This article will propose an approach that combines both ontologies and web services in order to overcome some issues related to the semantic integration problem.

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Izza S., Vincent L. and Burlat P. (2005). A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An Ontology-Driven Service-Oriented Approach . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 165-170. DOI: 10.5220/0002521601650170


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Saïd Izza and Lucien Vincent and Patrick Burlat},
title={A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An Ontology-Driven Service-Oriented Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={165-170},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002521601650170},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATION INTEGRATION - An Ontology-Driven Service-Oriented Approach
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Izza S.
AU - Vincent L.
AU - Burlat P.
PY - 2005
SP - 165
EP - 170
DO - 10.5220/0002521601650170