Drug Discovery: An Innovative Approach to Application Integration Using SOA & Ontology
Ontology-based techniques are being experimented with as a possible answer for creating semantically enriched SOAs.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has radically changed the application integration landscape. However, the need for intelligent service discovery based on invocation context and service capability is still a challenge. Ontologybased techniques are being experimented with as a possible answer for creating semantically enriched SOAs. In this paper, we discuss the ongoing experimentation with using ontology as a layer above Web services to achieve semantic integration. We have chosen an area of drug discovery called sample management where life sciences companies face application integration challenges. We have created a conceptual ontology model for life sciences for use in our studies.
This paper first details the experiment process and then demonstrates how to achieve semantic integration using ontological means. Register to download the whitepaper.