Most enterprises contain several heterogeneous systems, creating a fuzzy network of interconnected applications, services, and data sources. In this emerging business context, a clear need appears to link these former incompatible systems by using enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions. We propose a semantically enriched service-oriented business applications (SE-SOBA) framework that will provide a dynamically reconfigurable architecture enabling enterprises to respond quickly and flexibly to market changes. We also propose the development of a pure semantic-based implementation of the universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI) specification, called pure semantic registry (PSR), which provides a flexible, extendable core architectural component allowing the deployment and business exploitation of Semantic Web services. The implementation of PSR involves the development of a semantic-based repository and an embedded resource definition framework (RDF)-based reasoning engine, providing strong query and inference capabilities to support effective service discovery and composition. We claim that when SE-SOBAs are combined with PSR and rule-based formalizations of business scenarios and processes, they constitute a holistic business-driven semantic integration framework, called FUSION, applied to intra- and inter- organizational EAI scenarios.

If we try to increase the level of automation in Business-to-Business (B2B) Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios, we confront challenges related to the resolution of data heterogeneities, service discovery and process composition. In this paper, we propose the Enterprise Interoperability Ontology (ENIO) that provides a shared, common understanding of data, services and processes within B2B integration scenarios. ENIO consists of an Upper Enterprise Interoperability Ontology (Upper ENIO), which is based on the DOLCE-SUMO alignment, with extensions called facets that cover several dimensions of the EAI domain. Each facet contains a relative meta-model that utilizes widely adopted standards. Finally, we demonstrate the utilization of ENIO in a real-world B2B scenario across a franchisor-franchisees collaborative value network.

The FUSION approach proposes both a conceptual framework and a system architecture that supports the composition of business processes using semantically annotated web services as building blocks. Results will be validated by supporting collaborative commercial proof-of-concept pilots. The FUSION approach will facilitate trans-national pilot cases having operations spanning the enlarged Europe, in particular: integration of transactions of a franchising firm, provision of career and human resource management services, collaboration of companies in a chain of schools of foreign languages. The paper provides an overview on the FUSION approach and illustrates how it can be applied on one of the pilot cases.

In this paper we propose a methodology to perform a comparison between a legal document and its related handwritten summary. We thus describe the algorithms that verify when a human-produced summary is consistent with its source document. We first analyze both documents in order to extract only the relevant information then we compare such information in order to obtain a measure of correlation indicating the consistence between the two documents. Eventually, we briefly report on the performance of these algorithms.

Service-oriented computing is being adopted at an unprecedented rate, making the effectiveness of automated service discovery an increasingly important challenge. UDDI has emerged as a de facto industry standard and fundamental building block within SOA infrastructures. Nevertheless, conventional UDDI registries lack means to provide unambiguous, semantically rich representations of Web service capabilities, and the logic inference power required for facilitating automated service discovery. To overcome this important limitation, a number of approaches have been proposed towards augmenting Web service discovery with semantics. This paper discusses the benefits of semantically extending Web service descriptions and UDDI registries, and presents an ovennew of the approach put forward in project FUSION, towards semanticallyenhanced publication and discovery of services based on SAWSDL.

Inter-organizational knowledge networks and knowledge marketplaces have emerged in order to enable organizations to share or commercially exploit their knowledge outside narrow organizational borders. The materialization of these structures requires concrete and sound mechanisms for the efficient external provision of knowledge stored in knowledge repositories and for the conclusion of agreements among parties that will specify the terms and conditions of knowledge transactions. In our approach, we propose 'Knowledge Services' and k-UDDI,enhanced by reference ontologies we have developed, as a means to enable the publication, discovery, negotiation and invocation of web services that carry knowledge objects from knowledge repositories of various organizational contexts regardless of the environment within which they are delivered.

This paper presents a multi-agent platform for the confrontation of emergency incidents of patients that belong to High Risk Groups. It presents the design and implementation of the required software components. Moreover, the reader is presented with all the required information about the discrete components and their communication so as to provide the desired service. Finally, the paper presents the actions that will be performed in the future concerning its further enhancement. I. INTRODUCTION t present, the majority of people around the world that suffer from chronic diseases or belong to high risk groups (HRG) are unwilling to venture out of the confines of their homes without the escort of dedicated people, lest they may require emergency treatment. Consequently, many of them progressively become socially disabled, which aggravates their already delicate physical condition. The proposed system will try to address the aforementioned problem by offering the end user/patient an increased degree of self-sufficiency when going out of his/her home. For this purpose, it introduces an intelligent rescue mechanism that provides instant and efficient assistance in the event of an emergency. Hence, the patient benefits from an improved level of safety; stress is reduced and quality of life is ameliorated. More specifically, our team designed and implemented a distributed intelligent software platform which performs a set of actions when a medical emergency occurs. First of all, it undertakes the task to contact the nearest available and suitable doctor and direct him/her to the patient's exact location. Furthermore, it alerts the nearest available hospital so that an ambulance may be dispatched to the site of the emergency. Therefore, the patient receives help from both the doctor and the hospital that are closest to his/her location.