integrationslogik

Integrationslogik is a formal framework used in German-language literature to study the logic of combining disparate components, data sources, or processes into a unified system. It seeks to describe the rules and properties that govern integration operations, aiming to ensure that merged artefacts remain coherent, provably consistent, and tractable to analyze. The term is used across computer science, information systems, and knowledge representation, and may function as a theoretical lens or as a practical methodology for designing integration architectures.

Core concepts in Integrationslogik include explicit integration operators for merging, composing, or fusing parts of a system, each with defined semantics. The framework emphasizes invariants and constraints that must hold in any merged model, and it promotes compositionality so that the behavior of complex integrations can be inferred from simpler components. It also addresses conflict resolution, normalization rules, and notions of equivalence, traceability, and (where appropriate) reversibility. The approach often draws on tools from formal logic, category theory (for modeling composition), and model checking to support verification.

Applications of Integrationslogik span data integration, service or microservice composition, and workflow or process fusion, as well as knowledge graph merging and model-driven development. In data integration, it provides formal rules for resolving schema and ontology differences and for proving that merged data satisfies global constraints. In software engineering, it guides interface compatibility, component composition, and the verification of integration tests.

See also data integration, software composition, formal logic, category theory.