Ontology-Based Information Integration Mapping Construction Between Global View and Local Views in Virtual Organization
Information integration is the key approach for achieving information sharing in the virtual organization. From the point of view of implementing information sharing in the virtual organization, how to construct the mapping between the global view and the local views during the information integration was thoroughly studied and an ontology-based two phases mapping construction method was advanced. In the method, based on the ontology, the first phase was devoted to the construction of initial mapping and the second phase was to adjust the mapping according to the information sources change. In the first phase, referred to the GAV (Global as View) the initial mapping between the global view and the local views was founded. In the second phase, referred to the LAV(Local as View) the mapping was adjusted when the information sources change. An example of constructing the mapping between the global view and the local views in the E-Commerce virtual organization was presented to illustrate the way the method works, which also demonstrated the validity of the method.