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[ÏÂÔØ] TopQuadrant Technology Briefing ÓïÒåÍøϵÁн̳̣¨ËĸöרÌ⣩ Õâ¸öËĸö²»ÊÇÒ»ÕÂÒ»¸öѹËõÎļþ£¬ÊÇËĸöÎļþÒ»ÆðµÄ·Ö¾íѹËõ£¬ËùÒÔ¶¼ÏÂÔØÒ»Æð½âѹ²ÅÄܽâѹ³É¹¦¡£Ö»½âѹÆäÖÐÒ»¸öûÓÐÓᣠÒÔÏÂÊÇĿ¼ I. Semantic Technology 1. Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 3 2. A Need to Integrate and a Need to Manage.................................................................................. 4 2.1 The Most Common Solution Strategy .................................................................................................. 4 2.2 Semantic Solutions................................................................................................................................ . 5 Figure 1: Illustration of a Unified View of Billing and Contractual Databases ................................................................ 6 3. Semantic Integration Vendors ...................................................................................................... 7 Table 1: Overview of Semantic Integration Vendors ..................................................................................................... 10 4. Capabilities of Semantic Integration Platforms:........................................................................ 11 Table 2: Comparison of Capabilities Offered by Vendors ............................................................................................. 12 Table 3: Support for Open Standards of Semantic Integration Products ........................................................................ 14 Figure 2: Positioning of Vendor¡¯s Solutions within the Semantic Integration Space ..................................................... 14 5. Standard Languages for Knowledge Modeling.......................................................................... 15 Figure 3: Tree of Knowledge Technologies ................................................................................................................... 15 Table 4: View of Knowledge Modeling Standards and Marketplace Adoption ............................................................. 16 5.1 XML-based Knowledge (Ontology) Modeling Languages ............................................................... 16 6. Recommendations for Getting Started:....................................................................................... 19 6.1 About Vendor Selection ....................................................................................................................... 19 6.2 Tools Update ........................................................................................................................................ 19 II. Semantic Integration Strategies and Tools 1. Semantic Technology..................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 What is Semantic Technology? ............................................................................................................. 4 Figure 1: Example of a Taxonomy for e- Government...................................................................................................... 4 Figure 2: Part of the FEA Capabilities Manager Ontology Model ................................................................................... 5 Figure 3: Example of a Rule for Exhibit 300 Measures ................................................................................................... 6 1.2 How Knowledge Models are different from other Software Models ................................................ 6 1.3 Standard Languages for Knowledge Modeling ................................................................................... 7 Figure 4: Tree of Knowledge Technologies ..................................................................................................................... 7 1.3.1 The History and the Current State .................................................................................................................... 8 1.3.2 XML-based Knowledge (Ontology) Modeling Languages............................................................................... 9 Figure 5: RDF Example................................................................................................................................. ................ 11 Applications of Semantic Technology ........................................................................................................... 12 1.4 Application Architecture ..................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 6: Typical Application Architecture................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 7: The role of Semantic Engine in the Application Architecture......................................................................... 16 Figure 8: Architecture for Semantic Interoperability...................................................................................................... 17 2. Ontology Development Tool Support.......................................................................................... 18 2.1 Executive Summary............................................................................................................................. 18 2.2 Ontology Lifecycle and Tools .............................................................................................................. 18 2.3 Ontology Tools Survey......................................................................................................................... 20 2.4 Tool Interoperability....................................................................................................................... .... 24 3. Semantic Integration, Strategies and Tools................................................................................ 26 3.1 Executive Summary............................................................................................................................. 26 3.2 A Need to Integrate and a Need to Manage ....................................................................................... 27 3.2.1 The Most Common Solution Strategy ............................................................................................................ 27 3.2.2 Semantic Solutions ........................................................................................................................................ 28 Figure 9: Illustration of a Unified View of Billing and Contractual Databases .............................................................. 29 3.3 Semantic Integration Vendors............................................................................................................. 30 3.4 Capabilities of Semantic Integration Platforms:............................................................................... 34 Figure 10: Positioning of Vendor¡¯s Solutions within the Semantic Integration Space ................................................... 37 3.5 Recommendations for Getting Started: ............................................................................................. 37 3.5.1 About Vendor Selection ................................................................................................................................ 38 III. Ontology Myth or Magic? Toward the Practical Application of Ontology- enabled Knowledge Solutions 1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................3 2. Introduction ¨C Why Ontology-enabled Solutions? ............................................................................5 2.1 What Do Ontologies Do? .............................................................................................................................5 2.2 Why Bother with these Technologies Now? ..............................................................................................6 3. Ontology Solutions ¨C the Promise and the Price ...............................................................................7 3.1 Challenges of Enterprise Solutions.............................................................................................................8 3.1.1 A Brief History of Solution Failures....................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Challenges of Emerging Technologies........................................................................................................9 3.2.1 ¡°Ontology Engineering¡±: an Emerging state of the Art .......................................................................................... 9 3.2.2 Semantic Web ¨C Vision or Dream? ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.2.4 Where Does It Make a Real Difference? .............................................................................................................. 11 3.2.5 Summary ¨C Ontologies as Emerging Technology................................................................................................. 12 3.3 Unique Challenges of Semantic Technologies .........................................................................................12 3.3.1 Assessing the State of Practice for Creating Effective Ontology Applications..................................................... 13 3.3.2 Establishing a ¡°Beachhead¡± toward Larger Victories........................................................................................... 13 3.3.3 The Three Peaks, revisited .................................................................................................................................. 14 4. A Practical Approach for Successful Ontology Solutions...............................................................15 4.1 Envisioning Solutions for Semantic Technologies ..................................................................................16 4.1.1 Solution Envisioning with Capability Cases......................................................................................................... 17 4.1.2 Solution Envisioning: From Vision to Plan in Three Phases ................................................................................ 18 4.2 Guidelines for Adoption of Semantic Technology ..................................................................................22 4.2.2 Tactics: Some Traps ............................................................................................................................................ 22 4.2.3 Some Tips........................................................................................................................................ .................... 23 5. Conclusions: The Future of Semantic Technologies ......................................................................24 VI. Ontology Tool Support Ontology Development Lifecycle and Tools 1. Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 3 2. Ontology Lifecycle Tool Support................................................................................................... 4 3. Ontology Tools ............................................................................................................................... 6 Table 1: Ontology Tool Support.................................................................................................................................. .... 6 3.1 Ontology Tool Interoperability ........................................................................................................... 10 Table 2: Conversion Capability of major Ontology Creation tools ................................................................................ 10    Êղؠ  ·ÖÏí   ¶¥(0)