Semantic Integration of Business Applications

Abstract

The increasingly important requirement for efficient electronic communication has brought along a fundamental issue that all business systems need to address: What are effective and efficient ways of achieving integration and interoperability with other systems. The basic problem that this paper attempts to solve is the problem of business application integration which is a consequence of structural and semantic differences among business data. This paper defines an algorithm for semantic reconciliation of business document schemas, an algorithm for transformation of business documents, and provides a software prototype that implements the proposed integration method.