Ontology-based Application Integration
Ontology-based Application Integration introduces UI-level (User Interface Level) application integration and discusses current problems which can be remedied by using ontologies. It shows a novel approach for applying ontologies in system integration. Wh
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Heiko Paulheim
Ontology-based Application Integration Foreword by Johannes Fürnkranz
Heiko Paulheim Knowledge Engineering Group Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1429-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1430-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1430-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936126 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is an extended version of the dissertation “Ontology-based Application Integration on the User Interface Level” at Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, D17.
Foreword
There is probably no invention in the history of mankind that had such a profound impact on our lives in such a short time as the World Wide Web. Twenty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee has developed the first versions of HTML which allowed to weave documents into the large hypertext document that we know today. It was soon realized that the potential of this technology is not limited to connecting texts, but may serve as a backbone for a world-wide knowledge base called the Semantic Web. Again, Tim Berners-Lee helped to pioneer the vision of data and knowledge being publicly available in a formalized, machine-processable form. Based on standards like RDF or OWL, knowledge and semantics may be freely exchanged between heterogeneous applications. The number of facts stored in public knowledge repositories, so-called ontologies, is increasing at a rapid scale. Linked open data are on the verge of permeating our everyday lives. Now we are facing the next revolution. Not only documents or knowledge will be connected, but computer applications are no longer running on personal computers, but on centralized servers which can be accessed via Web interfaces from a large variety of processors in smartphones, TVs, cars, household appliances, and more. For the end user, this not only relieves them of the burden of the update and maintenance of their software, but allows them to access their applications in a uniform way, everywhere and at every time. A grand challenge for web-based software design is to integrate different heterogeneous applications into a homogeneous new system that utilizes the familiar existing components but allows a
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