Title :
Ontology-Driven Decision Support in Dynamic Supply-Chains
Author :
Nelson, Andrew ; Nyabuti, Dickens ; Collins, John ; Ketter, Wolfgang ; Gini, Maria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
We describe an approach to building a highly configurable, semi-autonomous agent that can support users playing a variety of roles in a supply-chain trading environment. The agent´s decision processes are composed of networks of simple services that are described using OWL ontology. The ontology describes both the abstract data structures that are produced and consumed by individual services, as well as the business meaning of these data elements. This approach supports goal-directed composition of services in order to generate performance dashboards, as well as direct injection of user input at arbitrary points in the network.
Keywords :
Web services; data structures; decision support systems; knowledge representation languages; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; supply chain management; supply chains; OWL ontology; Web service; abstract data structure; dynamic supply-chain; goal-directed service composition; goods transfer; ontology-driven decision support system; semiautonomous agent; software agent; supply chain management; Autonomous agents; Companies; Computer science; Decision making; Humans; Information analysis; Management training; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Supply chain management; Decision Support; Economic Dashboard; Ontology; Supply Chains;
Conference_Titel :
Commerce and Enterprise Computing, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3755-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.79
