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Kaykova, Khr yenko, Kovtun, Naumenko, Terz yan, & Zharko<br />
Discussion.and.Future.Work<br />
One <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> goals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> SmartResource activity is a demonstration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> benefits<br />
and possibilities that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong> technology potentially can bring to <strong>the</strong><br />
industry. The trend within worldwide activities related to <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong> definitely<br />
shows that <strong>the</strong> technology has emerging growth <strong>of</strong> interest in both academia and<br />
business during a quite small time interval. The stage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> technology (according<br />
to highly qualified expert evaluations [Davis, 2004]) is called now “from skepticism<br />
and curiosity to enthusiasm: People are now asking ‘How questions as opposed to<br />
‘Why’ and ‘What.’” Moreover, prognoses show that “semantic solutions, services and<br />
s<strong>of</strong>tware markets will grow rapidly topping $60B by 2010” (Davis, 2004). <strong>Semantic</strong><br />
technologies are building blocks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> next megawave <strong>of</strong> economic development<br />
— distributed intelligence — and now is <strong>the</strong> time for semantic technology investments<br />
to streng<strong>the</strong>n portfolios.<br />
Usability.<strong>of</strong>.<strong>the</strong>.SmartResource.Results<br />
The developed methodology <strong>of</strong> resource adaptation and its prototype implementation<br />
can be used by ICT industries in tasks related to <strong>the</strong> problem <strong>of</strong> Enterprise Application<br />
Integration and to less global problems <strong>of</strong> legacy application adaptation, for<br />
example. In addition, <strong>the</strong> proposed solution is compatible with <strong>the</strong> existing open<br />
W3C standard RDF, which provides rich semantic descriptions to resource data<br />
and, hence, enables resource maintenance by future specialized intelligent <strong>Web</strong><br />
services or applications.<br />
To apply <strong>the</strong> developed approach for <strong>the</strong> previously mentioned tasks, <strong>the</strong> following<br />
steps must be performed:<br />
• Development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> library (centralized or decentralized storage) <strong>of</strong> reusable<br />
programming components according to <strong>the</strong> decomposition model recommended<br />
in GAF. In <strong>the</strong> development process, both large and small s<strong>of</strong>tware development<br />
companies can participate, applying <strong>the</strong>ir unique expertise in specific<br />
component implementations and providing it to <strong>the</strong> world for a certain price.<br />
The great advantage <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> component owners is that, according to GAF, <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
components are meant to be discovered and linked to <strong>the</strong> specific adapter<br />
automatically, thanks to <strong>the</strong> ontology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> components.<br />
• Ontology <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> s<strong>of</strong>tware components must be engineered to automate <strong>the</strong><br />
process <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir search and acquisition. For this purpose, <strong>the</strong> existing types <strong>of</strong><br />
components must be systematized, which requires involvement <strong>of</strong> a comprehensive<br />
player from <strong>the</strong> s<strong>of</strong>tware market.<br />
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