A Semantics Definition Metamodel

Ma. Laura Caliusco (1), César Maidana (1), Ma. Rosa Galli (2), Omar Chiotti (2)

e-mails: mcaliusc@frsf.utn.edu.ar, cmaidana@frsf.utn.edu.ar, mrgalli@ceride.gov.ar, chiotti@ceride.gov.ar

(1) GIDSATD - UTN - FRSF Santa Fe Argentina
(2) INGAR - CONICET Santa Fe Argentina

Abstract

New information technologies provide new opportunities for allowing collaborative business-to-business (B2B) relationships. An effective B2B relationship requires a right modeling of collaborative processes and each message within these processes.

The XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is becoming widely used for representing both the processes and the business documents. However, the use of XML is insufficient for implementing an effective B2B relationship because of semantics heterogeneity that takes place in a collaborative process.

In order to represent semantics ontology specification languages from Artificial Inteligence (AI) area have arisen. However, the main disadvantage of these languages is they are mostly based on logic formalisms to support machine reasoning. This makes the language syntax unfamiliar for business analysts who define the collaborative process and model the business documents to be exchanged.

To fill the gap between people involved in the business documents definition and ontology specification languages, there are some proposals for the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in ontology development. But, UML does not satisfy all requirement for ontology modeling.

In this paper we present a metamodel for ontology definition. The objective of this metamodel is to overcome the gap between B2B area and AI techniques to model semantics associated to XML-based B2B documents.

Keywords:Ontology, Metamodel, XML, Bussiness-to-Bussiness, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering


BibTex 

@INPROCEEDINGS{caliusco04:56,
                  AUTHOR       = {Ma. Laura Caliusco and César Maidana and Ma. Rosa Galli and Omar Chiotti},
                  TITLE        = {A Semantics Definition Metamodel},
                  BOOKTITLE    = {30ma Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI2004)},
                  YEAR         = {2004},
                  editor       = {Mauricio Solar and David Fernández-Baca and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas},
                  pages        = {150--159},
                  address      = {},
                  month        = Sep,
                  organization = {Sociedad Peruana de Computación},
                  note         = {ISBN 9972-9876-2-0},
                  file         = {http://clei2004.spc.org.pe/es/html/pdfs/56.pdf}
}

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