A framework for semantic checking of information systems

In this day and age, enterprises often find that their business benefits greatly if they collaborate with others in order to be more competitive and productive. However these collaborations often come with some costs since the worldwide diversity of communities has led to the development of various knowledge representation elements, namely ontologies that, in most cases, are not semantically equivalent. Even after solving once the establishment of a se-mantic alignment with other systems, they do not keep unchanged. Consequently, they need to check regularly its semantic alignment. Therefore, to aid in the resolution of this semantic interoperability problem, the authors propose a framework that intends to provide generic solutions and a mean to validate the semantic consistency of ontologies in various scenarios, thus maintaining the interoperability state between the enrolled systems.