The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: next generation information technologies and systems
Clio: a semi-automatic tool for schema mapping
SIGMOD '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Data integration: a theoretical perspective
Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
MAFRA - A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Data Exchange: Semantics and Query Answering
ICDT '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Theory
Schema Mapping as Query Discovery
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Mapping Technology for Enterprise Integration
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Business and Enterprise Ontology Management with SymOntoX
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information
DS-8 Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Eighth Working Conference on Database Semantics- Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems
Harmonise: A Solution for Data Interoperability
I3E '02 Proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Towards The Knowledge Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Government
Answering queries using views: A survey
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
XWRAP: An XML-Enabled Wrapper Construction System for Web Information Sources
ICDE '00 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Data Engineering
Semantic Web Complex Ontology Mapping
WI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence
Search Strategies in Shopping Engines: An Experimental Investigation
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Enhancing hotel search with semantic web technologies
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Service and document based interoperability for European ecustoms solutions
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Covering the semantic space of tourism: an approach based on modularized ontologies
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies
Comparison of knowledge during the assembly process of learning objects
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Advanced technologies in e-tourism
ACS'09 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
Sem-Fit: A semantic based expert system to provide recommendations in the tourism domain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Integrating open data and generating travel itinerary in semantic-aware tourist information system
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Improving travel information access with semantic search application on mobile environment
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Ambient affiliates in virtual cross-organizational tourism alliances
Computers in Human Behavior
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Travel and tourism comprise the leading application field in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, representing approximately half of the total worldwide B2C turnover. Even in the 1960s, travel applications (i.e., computerized airline reservation systems) were at the forefront of information technology (IT). Several facts explain this-- the product is a confidence good, consumer decisions rely on information available beforehand, and the industry is highly networked, based on worldwide cooperation between stakeholders of different types. The latter factor and the related problem of interoperability represent a major challenge for IT solutions. Harmonise, a European project based on a Semantic Web approach and utilizing a Web services infrastructure, deals with business-to-business (B2B) integration on the "information" layer by means of an ontology-based mediation. It allows tourism organizations with different data standards to exchange information seamlessly without having to change their proprietary data schemas. The "weak" coupling takes into consideration the specific industry context, with its majority of small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and with many different, also legacy, solutions. Real-world business tests show that this approach meets industry expectations and can facilitate the necessary network effect in order to create an interoperable e-tourism marketplace.