Improving Information Systems Interoperability and Flexibility Using a Semantic Integration Approach

Current enterprise service bus solutions suffer a scalability constraint connected with the needed number of managed service interfaces. To address this issue, we propose a semantic layer to reduce complexity of service orchestration and data integration processes. By endowing {ESB} solutions with the semantic layer and its related core semantic services, we introduce uniform interfaces for managed services and give an implementation perspective for improving information-systems interoperability through a semantic service bus middleware.