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that participate in business transactions. The FUSION ontologies serve the objective
of making the technical realization as declarative as possible.
The FUSION ontologies constitute the cornerstone for the semantic description
and modeling of business-oriented web services. The core objective of these business
ontologies is to facilitate efficient business collaboration and interconnection
between heterogeneous, incompatible services supporting the semantic fusion of
service-oriented business applications that exist within an enterprise or in several
collaborating companies.
The FUSION ontologies conceptualize the identified attributes, concepts, and their
relationships of the service-oriented businesses applications and will be developed
in three layers, each of them referring to a significant business entity??”aspect:
the service provider, the service functionality, and the services data types. This
multi-layer architecture of FUSION ontologies provides a rich representation of
service-oriented business applications, captures the significant requirements of
both services functionality and data, supports efficient representation of services
in intra- and inter-organizational level, and provides a flexible structure that could
be easily refined and updated.
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