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Overview
•The Problem
•Tightness of Coupling & Explicit Semantics
•Semantic Integration Implies
Semantic Composition
•Dimensions of Interoperability & Integration
•Ontologies
–The Ontology Spectrum
–What are Ontologies?
–Levels of Ontology Representation
–What Problems do Ontologies Help Solve?
•Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable
Systems
–Enabling Semantic Interoperability
–Examples
–Visions
–What do We Want the Future to be?