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This paper presents an approach to information mediation in the industrial domain resulting from the NIIIP infrastructure. In this environment, representations of computing resources normally managed behind distinct organizational “firewalls” are shared by members of a Virtual Enterprise. Issues of descriptive heterogeneity, multiple sources of control, and semantic mismatch are addressed by providing a common representation of both physical resources and natural language tokens as linked objects. The focus of this paper is on the algorithm or “stopping rule” that causes the mediation portion of the system to be invoked to learn to resolve object/action level conflicts by adding high-level abstractions in the form of “triplet tokens” to the Virtual Enterprise’s Knowledge Base Management System.
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Goldschmidt, A. (1996). An Approach to Information Mediation in the Industrial Domain. In: Wiederhold, G. (eds) Intelligent Integration of Information. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0467-8_4
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