Semantic Interoperability: Issues, Solutions, Challenges

Editor: Salvatore F. Pileggi, Carlos Fernandez-Llatas
s.f.pileggi@ieee.org

The Semantic Web would be an evolving extension of current Web model (referred as Syntactic Web) that introduces a semantic layer in which semantics, or meaning of information are formally defined. Semantics should integrate web-centric standard information infrastructures improving several aspects of interaction among heterogeneous systems: semantic interoperability would improve common interoperability models (basic and functional interoperability) introducing the interpretation of means of data. Semantic interoperability is a concretely applicable interaction model under the assumption of adopting rich data models (commonly called Ontology) composed of concepts within a domain and the relationships among those concepts. Semantic technologies are partially inverting the common view at actor intelligence: intelligence is not implemented (only) by actors but it is implicitly resident in the knowledge model. In other words, schemas contain information and the "code" to interpretate it.

Important Dates:
Chapter Proposal: February 28, 2011
Acceptance Notification: March 7, 2011
Chapter Submission: TBD
Final Chapter Submission: TBD

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