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Application of Ontological Engineering in Customs Domain

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

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Customs is considered a very complex business domain in terms of concepts, processes and rules. The complexity is increased because a number of actors are involved in various activities such as National Administrations and Economic Operators. All these should share a common understanding about various concepts. The paper presents a research work which examines the use of ontological engineering as a tool to represent and share various terms and knowledge in the area of Customs. The developed ontology is expressed in OWL syntax. Some illustrative examples are provided demonstrating how the complex relationships between various Customs concepts could be modelled.

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  1. Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Queen’s Building, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

    Panagiotis Loukakos & Rossitza Setchi

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  1. School of Engineering, The Parade, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157, St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, ,, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Loukakos, P., Setchi, R. (2010). Application of Ontological Engineering in Customs Domain. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15387-7_52

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