Semantic integration is the process of interrelating information from diverse sources including calendars and to do lists; email archives; physical, psychological, and social presence information; documents of all sorts; contacts (including social graphs); search results; and advertising and marketing relevance derived from them. In this regard, semantics focuses on organizing and using information.
In Enterprise Application Integration, semantic...
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Semantic integration is the process of interrelating information from diverse sources including calendars and to do lists; email archives; physical, psychological, and social presence information; documents of all sorts; contacts (including social graphs); search results; and advertising and marketing relevance derived from them. In this regard, semantics focuses on organizing and using information.
In Enterprise Application Integration, semantic integration can be used to automate the communication between computer systems using metadata publishing to allow ontologies to be linked or mapped. One approach to (semi-)automated ontology mapping requires the definition of a semantic distance or its inverse, semantic similarity and appropriate rules. Other approaches include so-called lexical methods, as well as methodologies that rely on exploiting the structures of the ontologies. For explicitly stating similarity/equality, there exist special properties or relationships in most ontology...
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