Integration with Ontologies Andreas Maier, Eddie Mnch WM2003, April 2003, Luzern

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Integration with OntologiesAndreas Maier, Eddie
Mönch WM2003, April 2003, Luzern
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Integration one of todays hottest IT topics
Front-End
easy to use
access to relevant content
abstraction
Integration
reusability
knowledge representation
extendibility
complexity
Back-End
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Integration as smart support in MS Office
Menu
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System Architecture
point-to-point-connections
real integrated solution
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Requirements for an ontology-based approach
1. covering all existing data structures
2a. mapping merging 2b. managing the business
logic complexity
3. provide a performant data storage
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Requirement 1 covering all existing data
structures
Front-End
Ontologies
Back-End
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Menu
Requirement 1 Architecture Overview
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Requirement 2a mapping merging
i.e. attribute-to-concept-mapping
? OntoMap
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Requirement 2b business logic complexity
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Requirement 2b business logic complexity
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Requirement 3 performant data storage
ontology2
ontology1
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repository
database
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Tools OntoMap
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Tools RuleEditor
if and
Transitivity
then
Composition
FORALL X,Y,Z Xis greater than-gtgtZ lt-
Xis greater than-gtgtY
AND Yis greater
than-gtgtZ.
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Tools RuleDebugger
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• Thank you for your attention!
• Coming up for discussion
• - Mapping problems orthogonal structures
• - Data Storage relational DBs ? Repositories
• Semantic Web?, Distributed Ontologies?
• maier_at_ontoprise.de, moench_at_ontoprise.de