Ontologies-based business integration / Michael Rebstock, Janina Fengel, Heiko Paulheim ; with additional contributions by Christian Huemer [and others]
Front Matter; Coping with Semantic Variety in E-Business; Integrating Processes, Applications and Information; E-Business Standards; Case Study: Designing ebXML -- The Work of UN/CEFACT; Ontology Engineering; Advanced Knowledge Creation Techniques; Semantic Web Programming Frameworks; A Methodology for Semantic E-Business Integration; Access Control for E-Business Integration; Case Study: An Application for Dynamic Semantic E-Business Integration -- The ORBI Ontology Mediator; Business Integration -- Past, Present and Beyond; Back Matter
Summary
The globalization of everyday business and increasing international trade lead to a growing need to improve national and international business collaborations and transactions. Upcoming new technologies for e-business transactions allow for new ways of process, information and application integration. But business partners almost always have different ways to systemize the information needed to run the business, in terms of information structure, syntax and semantics. Consequences are mismatch and misunderstanding in electronic transactions. This book shows what ontology management can do for
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index