Supporting semantic interoperability in a middleware infrastructure for the development of collaborative services

Author

De Almeida, Thiago R. ; David, José Maria N ; Maciel, Rita Suzana P

Author_Institution

UNIFACS, Univ. Salvador, Salvador, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 June 2011

Firstpage

422

Lastpage

428

Abstract

With the increasing communication demand among distributed collaborative applications, software developers are facing new challenges related to semantic interoperability issues. This article aims to present a solution based on a mediation service and ontology in order to support interoperability across specific middleware services. These services are part of a middleware infrastructure which was designed to support groupware development. To illustrate our proposal, we discuss some problems usually found when distributed groupware applications interoperation is required. Furthermore, we focus our evaluation on a mediation approach to support the interoperability in a middleware infrastructure.

Keywords

groupware; middleware; open systems; collaborative services development; distributed collaborative applications; groupware development; interoperation applications; mediation ontology; mediation service; middleware infrastructure; middleware services; software developers; supporting semantic interoperability; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Context; Middleware; Ontologies; Semantics; SOA; context; interoperability; middleware services; ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2011 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0386-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2011.5960108

Filename

5960108