Towards a Management Framework for Data Semantic Conflicts: A Financial Applications Perspective

An application-oriented analysis of data semantic challenges is presented. The anal- ysis serves as a basis for developing a framework for effectively managing such challenges. The paper focuses on financial information providers as representative cases. A model representing relationships between attributes is proposed and is used for presenting and discussing certain semantic conflicts and their business implications. Directions of current work which are based on that model and which aim to advance towards an effective management framework are outlined.