The interoperability of the electronic documents exchanged in eBusiness
applications is an
important problem in industry. Currently, this problem is handled by
the mapping experts who understand the meaning of every element in the involved
document schemas and define the mappings among them which is a very costly and tedious process.
In order to improve electronic document interoperability,
the UN/CEFACT produced the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS)
which defines a common structure and semantic properties for document artifacts.
However, at present, this document content information is available only through text-based search mechanisms and tools.
In this thesis, the semantics of CCTS based business document
standards is explicated
through a formal, machine processable language as an ontology.
In this way, it becomes possible to compute a harmonized
ontology, which gives
the similarities among document schema ontology classes of different document standards
through both the semantic properties they share and the semantic equivalences established
through reasoning. However, as expected, the harmonized
ontology only helps discovering the similarities of structurally and semantically equivalent elements.
In order to handle the structurally different but semantically similar document artifacts, heuristic rules are
developed describing the possible ways of organizing simple document artifacts
into compound artifacts as defined in the CCTS methodology.
Finally, the equivalences discovered among document schema ontologies
are used for the semi-automated generation of XSLT definitions
for the translation of real-life document instances.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610689/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2009 |
| Creators | Kabak, Yildiray |
| Contributors | Dogac, Asuman |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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