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About two thirds of the energy consumed in buildings originates household appliances. Nowadays, appliances are often intelligent and networked devices that form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. Reducing energy is therefore a matter of managing and optimizing the energy utilization on a system level. These systems need standardized interfaces on a sensor and device level...
The proliferation of sensor and actuator networks in the urban environment is directly associated with an increasing volume of data, relating to various aspects of the city. Synchronously, the heterogeneity of data formats, sensory observations, measuring capabilities and accompanying contextual information is substantially growing. Aggregating immense amounts of data feeds from different networks...
In healthcare IT environment there are disparate functional systems and they need to collaborate to support healthcare enterprise workflow. While messaging standard and service-oriented approach provides general interoperability practice, they lack sufficient support for semantic interoperability. Semantic web service technology has proved useful to improve semantic interoperability by annotating...
It is very important first to state that the emergence of the e-commerce and e-government or the electronic libraries perform a necessity to have an access to multiple resources of information. Otherwise, these sources are not necessarily homogenous, either on the syntactic or semantic standard. For the semantic component, the conflicts appear when the systems don't have the some interpretation of...
Effective chronic disease management ensures better treatment and reduces medical costs. Representing knowledge through building an ontology for Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is important to achieve semantic interoperability among healthcare information systems and to better execute decision support systems. In this paper, an ontology-based EMR focusing on Chronic Disease Management is proposed...
e-Business standards are recognised as one of the most important drivers of Business to Business Integration. These standards seek to provide unambiguous specifications for error-free exchange of documents and information between trading partners. These standards are however, syntax based and do not guarantee semantic interoperability between partners. This paper proposes the utilisation of semantic...
Web services integration has been a vigorous research area for the last years. With the introduction of the semantic Web the publication of expressive metadata in a shared knowledge framework enables the deployment of services that can intelligently use Web resources. Syntactic and semantic interoperability of services is crucial for services integration and complex scientific workflows creation....
Technological advances such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have increased the feasibility and importance of effectively integrating information from an ever widening number of systems within and across enterprises. A key difficulty of achieving this goal comes from the pervasive heterogeneity in all levels of information systems. A robust solution to this problem needs to be adaptable, extensible,...
The role of metadata is gaining importance due to today's growth of multimedia content. Currently, XML is the standard for data interchange. However, as XML Schemas do not express semantics but rather the document structure, there is a lack of semantic interoperability regarding current (XML-based) metadata standards. By using semantic Web technologies, ontologies can be created to describe the semantics...
In this article, a model of service oriented market is presented. It gives a more equitable opportunity of integration in the business markets for the small and medium enterprises. Nevertheless, multi-site planning is a critical and difficult task due to the heterogeneity between planning applications of the various partners. For this objective, the proposed interoperable and distributed architecture...
With the increasing popularity of Web services, both academia and industry have invested considerably in Web service description standards, discovery, and composition. Although interoperability at the syntax level is supported, the semantic interoperability is handicapped because of the different registry models of Web service. It is for this reason that the semantic and interoperable Web service...
Product development environments are known for their growing complexity, especially if they are envisioned for the whole product lifecycle. The objective of the PLM business activity is to manage products across their lifecycles, from cradle to grave. PLM is focused on the product, and holistically brings together many product-related components. For such environments, ontologies could play an important...
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