Semantic Interoperability: Tight to Loose
Coupling
Tight coupling: applies to databases, systems
Same address space, same process space, same operating
system, same machine
Semantic compacts can be made because semantics stays in the
minds of the developers who agree
Loose coupling
Different platforms, networks, anywhere on Internet
Semantics must be explicit: agents, programs need to interpret the
semantics directly, to interoperate semantically
Levels: systems of systems, enterprise, community, value
chains/pipes
Ontologies (explicitly represented, logical
semantics): increasingly needed the higher you
go