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Table 4 Table of definitions.

From: Simulation environment and graphical visualization environment: a COPD use-case

Concept

Description

Interoperability

Capability of exchanging parameters between models in the SE

Ontology

It is a way of storing information based on the relations of the different entities included in an ontology

Mapping parameters

Those parameters that have different representation in different models, although they are the same.

Semantic description

Description of a concept by meaning

Web service

It is a communication method to exchange data or information between applications

Web socket

Makes possible the communication between a client application (web browser) and a server (remote machine). In this type of communication a channel is open to send and receive data from both parts.

wrapper

Piece of code that works as intermediary between two source codes written in different programming languages.