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In enterprise integration, one of the most complex tasks is to map elements of various interfaces to each other. These interfaces often transport data in different ways. This means that some form of data transformation is needed. We present an approach where structural and semantic models of the interfaces can be used together to automate or semi-automate this otherwise tedious and error prone manual process. Some of the possible criteria for interface element mapping are shown, along with semantic conflicts and how they are detected and resolved. We also present a prototype tool, including an overview of its architecture, that enables us to test our approach and have a real-world runnable implementation that is deployable on an enterprise service bus runtime. Finally, we show how some of the steps in the mapping and conflict resolution process could be made configurable by the user, making the integration developer agnostic with respect to the technical implementation of the involved systems.
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Forrester Research “Reducing Integration Costs”, December 2001.
Resource Description Framework; https://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf.
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services; https://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/.
All studens involved in the experiment study at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Chair of Informatics; http://informatika.ftn.uns.ac.rs.
Ontology source ommits namespace and imports for space restriction reasons.
There is no built in way in OWL to represent part-whole relationships. When making an ontological model of a system one would select one of the available mereology ontologies or develop their own. For our purposes of testing the automatic matcher, we have used the W3C working draft available at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/SimplePartWhole.
OSGi is a set of specifications that define a dynamic component system for Java; https://www.osgi.org.
Apache Jena framework: http://jena.apache.org/.
Simple Object Access Protocol; https://www.w3.org/TR/soap.
Business Application Programming Interface, a way for providing access to processes and data in SAP a system such as R/3.
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Vuković, Ž., Milanović, N., Vaderna, R. et al. Semantic-aided automation of interface mapping in enterprise integration with conflict detection. Inf Syst E-Bus Manage 15, 305–322 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-016-0326-7
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