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.