Ontology application in software component registry to achieve semantic interoperability

The ebXML registry has become one of the most well accepted registry standards for governments and industries. Though originally designed for B2B artifacts, almost any industrial artifact can be registered into an ebXML registry by extending the ebXML registry information model. However, this extensibility also debilitates its interoperability caused by insufficient semantic provided for it. This paper presents our solution to extend semantic for a software component in our development of SCRR system. An attribute ontology of software component is introduced to provide rich semantic information. We also explain how to implement a software component registry based on classification by applying the attribute ontology.