Knowledge engineering: principles and methods
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special jubilee issue: DKE 25
Ontologies for integrating engineering applications
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
The evolution of Protégé: an environment for knowledge-based systems development
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
B2b Integration
Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies: where is their meeting point?
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
A Semantic Web Primer
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Web-Service Semantic Enabled Implementation of Machine vs.Machine Business Negotiation
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Ontologies: How can They be Built?
Knowledge and Information Systems
WSMX - A Semantic Service-Oriented Architecture
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Applied Ontology
A semantic-mediation architecture for interoperable supply-chain applications
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
An Organizational Knowledge Ontology for Automotive Supply Chains
HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Supply chain ontology: Review, analysis and synthesis
Computers in Industry
GenCLOn: An ontology for city logistics
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Efficient supply chain management (SCM) requires consistent exchange and sharing of information semantics, which is often hindered by semantic clashes among heterogeneous applications. This paper proposes an ontology-based architecture for addressing the problem of semantic integration. A supply chain ontology (SCO) is developed by using the skeletal method to capture concepts and relationships common to SCM. Moreover, it is formally defined in OWL DL, a web-based ontology language, to serve as an interlingua for an architecture enabling information integration of SCM. Syntactic transformation between XML Schema and OWL in the architecture is implemented by syntactic translators that are developed by using XSLT. Furthermore, a rule-based approach is presented to map semantically similar terminologies between SCO and application ontologies with the aim of enabling semantic interoperability among applications in supply chains. The mapping rules are represented by SWRL, a rule description language that is independent of the rule languages specific to inference engines. In addition, a case study of a printer supply chain is illustrated to demonstrate the proposed methodology. Finally, a prototype system is developed using the Java platform to implement the SCO-based approach to semantic integration of SCM.