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Implementation of enterprises’ interoperation based on ontology

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The interoperation among enterprises in e-business could block the ambient semantic collaboration and cause a big problem since varying information descriptions and different data models may be used in different enterprises’ information systems. Ontology is an important tool to overcome the above mentioned syntax and semantic misunderstanding problem. Our goal is to provide a user-friendly environment supporting syntax and neutral format data model for business information. In this paper, two scenarios are discussed and a unified description of data model is developed to solve the gap in interoperation through mapping from logical data of enterprise’s information system. It provides the methods to realize the mapping among different types of data or information. First, database and other types of information are transformed into neutral format that are described by web ontology language (OWL). Second, the neutral format can be mapped into the semantic entities and semantic linking through the process of extraction and annotation and added into ontology and then described in a standard format that makes the collaboration be understood easily.

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This work was supported by the Europeans Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (No. FP6-2005-IST-5-034980), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2007AA04Z105), and National Natural Science of Foundation of China (No. 60674080).

Xiao-Feng Di received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in automatic control from Information Department of Jinan University, PRC in 2002 and 2005, respectively. She is a Ph. D. candidate at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, PRC.

Her research interests include enterprise integration, semantic web, knowledge management, enterprise modeling and analysis, and workflow management.

Yu-Shun Fan received the B. Sc. degree in automatic control from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, PRC in 1984, and the M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in control theory and application from Tsinghua University, PRC in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor of the Department of Automation, director of the System Integration Institute, and director of the Networking Manufacturing Laboratory, Tsinghua University. He is a member of the IFAC Advanced Manufacturing Technology Committee. From September 1993 to March 1994, he was a visiting scientist at the University Bochum, Germany, supported by Federal Ministry for Research and Technology. From April 1994 to July 1995, he was a visiting scientist, supported by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at Fraunhofer Institute for Production System and Design Technology (FhG/IPK), Germany. He served on the program committees of the International Symposium on CIM, Beijing, PRC in 1992, IEEE International Conference on Factory Automation and Emerging Technology, Los Angeles, USA in 1997, and International Workshop on Emergent Technologies in Engineering Cooperative Information Systems, Beijing, PRC in 2002.

His research interests include enterprise modeling methods and optimization analysis, business process reengineering, work- flow management, system integration and integrated platform, object-oriented technologies and flexible software systems, Petri nets modeling and analysis, and workshop management and control.

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Di, XF., Fan, YS. Implementation of enterprises’ interoperation based on ontology. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 7, 303–309 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-010-0507-7

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