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==Ontologies for Interoperability==
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                Ontologies for Interoperability: a Tutorial

                             Maurizio Lenzerini1, Michele Missikoff2
   1   Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
                                       lenzerini@dis.uniroma1.it
          2 Laboratory of Enterprise Knowledge and Systems (LEKS), IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy

                                         missikoff@iasi.cnr.it




Abstract. Interoperability has been defined as the capability of two (or more) actors (natural or
artificial) to effectively cooperate for achieving a given objective. A cooperation takes place by
exchanging messages that require a common interpretation, despite the fact that each actor is
characterised by a different system of symbols (e.g., they speak different languages). To this end,
at the beginning of a cooperation, the two (or more) actors need to confront their respective views
of the world (for the fragment of interest) and agree on a common conception. The latter can be
represented by an ontology. In this tutorial, after a brief introduction on the nature of an ontology,
and how such a philosophical notion has been recently revised to be managed by computers, we
address ontology languages and the most relevant ontology processing operations, in particular
querying and reasoning. Successively, we consider the problem of a multi-ontology setting and the
key questions arising in this context. Finally a brief account of the ontology-based services for
interoperability and a few engineering issues will be presented.

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