Authors:
Bahareh Rahmanzadeh Heravi
1
;
David Bell
1
;
Mark Lycett
1
;
Stephen D. Green
2
and
David Snelling
3
Affiliations:
1
Brunel University, United Kingdom
;
2
Document Engineering Services, United Kingdom
;
3
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd., United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
e-Business Standards, B2B Process, Ontology, Semantic Web, Semantic Standards, Standard Development.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Ontologies
;
Formal Methods
;
Future Directions
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration of Data Warehousing and Data Mining
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Technology Platforms
Abstract:
e-Business standards are recognised as one of the most important drivers of Business to Business Integration. These standards seek to provide unambiguous specifications for error-free exchange of documents and information between trading partners. These standards are however, syntax based and do not guarantee semantic interoperability between partners. This paper proposes the utilisation of semantic web technologies in the standards development process, aiming at developing more robust and at the same time flexible e-Business standard. In order to extract the requirements of an ontology based standard, a combined top down and bottom up approach has been adopted. This resulted in developing two ontologies: one for e-Business standards in general and one for ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (ebBP) as a specific e-Business standard. The challenge is to address the distance between these two ontologies and explore how ontologies can be utilised in developing next generation e-
Business standards. It is believed that ontology based e-Business standards will enhance interoperability between organisations involved in value networks and also may facilitate the standard development process itself.
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