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Managed Semantic Interoperability for Federations

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Semantic interoperability is a fundamental service in any dynamic federation that admits diverse autonomous members with heterogeneous data or service description schemata. Managing such schema diversity promotes and enables communication and collaboration within these federations. This paper presents a process, model and algorithms to manage the lifecycle, refinement and dynamic combination of semantic mappings using federation context and automated correspondence pattern recognition for complex mappings. Related work is surveyed, key requirements are derived and the system is evaluated through prototyping and experimental results for semi-automated generation of executable groundings for complex mappings.

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  3. Turtle/RDF is a human-readable text-based syntax for writing RDF triples and is currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation, http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/.

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This research is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland (Grant 08/SRC/I1403) as part of the FAME Strategic Research Cluster (www.fame.ie).

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Brennan, R., Walshe, B. & O’Sullivan, D. Managed Semantic Interoperability for Federations. J Netw Syst Manage 22, 302–330 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-013-9291-3

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