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The next phase envisioned for the World Wide Web is automated ad-hoc interaction between intelligent agents, web services, databases and semantic web enabled applications. Although at present this appears to be a distant objective, there are practical steps that can be taken to advance the vision. We propose an extension to classical conceptual models to allow the definition of application components in terms of public standards and explicit semantics, thus building into web-based applications, the foundation for shared understanding and interoperability. The use of external definitions and the need to store outsourced type information internally, brings to light the issue of object identity in a global environment, where object instances may be identified by multiple externally controlled identification schemes. We illustrate how traditional conceptual models may be augmented to recognise and deal with multiple identities.
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council SPIRT Grant “Self-describing transactions operating in a large, open, heterogeneous, and distributed environment” involving QUT, UNSW and GBST Holdings Pty Ltd.
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Oaks, P., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Edmond, D., Spork, M. (2003). Extending Conceptual Models for Web Based Applications. In: Song, IY., Liddle, S.W., Ling, TW., Scheuermann, P. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2003. ER 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2813. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39648-2_19
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