Semantic mediation modelling in the service component design. (21st March 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wu, Raymond
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 2:Number 3(2007)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 194
• Publication Date: 2008-03-21
• Subjects: semantic mediation services -- component synthesis -- transformation metadata -- modelling -- service component design -- AHP -- analytical hierarchy process -- eigenvalue -- component evaluation -- semantics; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Semantic mediation is one of the big challenges in this century from scale and complexity. The main objective of mediation is to minimise the architecture gap, and reduce expenses. Achieving this objective requires multi-dimensional approaches including service strategy and integration. Therefore, architecture alignment and coherence are extremely important. We further extend our investigation by using AHP and eigenvalue techniques in component evaluation. Our proposal mainly argues that semantic mediation should not be initiated from the macro architecture; instead we propose that mediation should impact components first, to push semantics strategy directly into the micro process to be synthesised into the service layer.