Extension of Reverse Engineering Approach of SWS for the Resolution of Semantic Interoperability of EIS

Abstract

Enterprise Information System (EIS) must cover the interoperability criteria inside its “application view” scope. Nevertheless, the urbanization approach, on which we rely to implement this EIS, has to deal with “horizontal fit” and “traversal fit” problems: lack of intra and inter-applicative communications problems. To overcome these deficiencies, we show in this paper our solutions to ensure semantic interoperability between the applications of different EIS, which are involved to exploit collaboratively business processes. For that, we rely on the Semantic Web Services (SWS) to allow enterprises that use multiple software systems for a business management project, to exchange easily business data between these services. In this context, we propose to reuse and extend the reverse engineering approach that serves to describe the SWS. Three phases permit to describe our contribution: extraction of relevant terms, analysis of the filtered terms and construction of Ontology Design Patterns (ODP). We demonstrate that our strategy enhance the semantic interoperability criteria between the enterprises.