Ontological Approach Towards E-business Process Automation

Author

Wu, Baolin ; Li, Li ; Yang, Yun

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, Vic.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

161

Abstract

This paper discusses the interoperability of e-business processes by using an ontology approach with description logic and agent systems to achieve e-business automation. An innovative e-business process modeling framework is proposed that outlines the building blocks required for Internet-based e-business in order to enable e-business process automation. The framework helps in understanding the role of many proposed standards with respect to the building blocks and in identifying both overlaps and gaps among them. The domain knowledge of e-business processes is conceptualised as an e-business process ontology that enables agents´ communication in e-business application sharing and reusing. Several agent-based automation mechanisms are discussed based on the ontology that provides implementation guidelines to e-business process automation

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; software agents; Internet; agent system; description logic; e-business process automation; interoperability; ontological approach; Australia; Automation; Communications technology; Logic; Ontologies; Proposals; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Web and internet services; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Business Engineering, 2006. ICEBE '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2645-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEBE.2006.75

Filename

4031646