MFI-3: An Enabler for Semantic Interoperation between Enterprise Information Resources

Author

He, Yangfan ; He, Keqing ; Wang, Chong ; Wang, Jiang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Software Eng., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

21-22 April 2009

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Enterprise information resources describe the characteristics of an enterprise from different perspectives. Effective management of information resources plays an important role in the business decision-making process. However, interoperation between information resources has always been a hard issue due to the difference in syntax and semantics. Establishing ontologies for enterprise information resources and using ontology mapping techniques to achieve semantic interoperability provides a viable solution for the above-mentioned problem. ISO/IEC 19763-3 (MFI-3)1 provides a metamodel for the registration of structural and evolutionary information about ontologies. It can help to eliminate the "blind spots" phenomenon in the ontology searching process, which is caused by the language or technical specialties. This paper explains the rational of MFI-3 and illustrates its usage in the semantic interoperation between enterprises.

Keywords

business data processing; decision making; enterprise resource planning; information resources; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; resource allocation; ISO/IEC 19763-3; MFI-3; blind spots phenomenon; business decision-making process; enterprise information resource; evolutionary information; information resource management; metamodel; ontology mapping; ontology searching; semantic interoperability; structural information; Computer industry; Crisis management; Environmental management; Helium; Information management; Information resources; Ontologies; Resource management; Risk management; Technology management; Enterprise Information Resource Management; MFI-3; Semantic Interoperation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications China, 2009. IESA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3652-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I-ESA.2009.28

Filename

5260874