Profiles semantics and matching flexibility for resources access.
Max Chevalier, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, Pascaline Laure Tchienehom · Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems · 2005
Heterogeneity of resources (information, users, hardware devices, etc.) has raised the problem of defining a generic model, which would be used as a basis for describing them in various applications for resources access. In this article, we propose a profile generic model, which describes the logical structure, the contents and the semantics of any resource. Through the exploitation of profiles semantics we show the matchings flexibility that allows interoperability between different profiles and hence between different applications. For that, we define rules for deducing couples of profiles elements that have a compatible semantics and hence that we can match.