Usage of semantic transformations in B2B integration solutions

Abstract

We propose a computation-oriented approach to ontology-based B2B integration. The domain ontology is used within the integration platform as a scheme for internal data representation. The main idea is to represent the ontology in a form that enhances the usage of static and dynamic type-checking features offered by the programming language compiler or runtime environment. For these purposes the ontology is represented as a set of types and transformation functions. We study the resulting integration platform architecture and compare expressive power and logical inference possibilities to other ontology representations.