The essence of the process specification language
Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International - modeling and simulation in manufacturing
Ontologies for integrating engineering applications
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor
Towards an approach for formalizing the supply chain operations
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems
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Each paper in this special issue deals with a particular aspect of supply chain management. Nevertheless, they all point to a common need for meaningful and timely information exchange across the supply chain. The Internet and the existing Web technologies have made the exchange of information essentially free and instantaneous. On the other hand, determining the meaning of that information, which we call integration, is still very costly. Millions of dollars and hundreds of man-years have been spent developing and coding interface specifications and software applications to achieve this integration. While this approach has been successful in the past, it is not a viable approach for the future in which the Semantic Web is becoming an important business strategy. In this paper, we discuss a new approach, called self-integration in which software applications are imbedded in an environment that allows them to integrate automatically. We first provide some background information on integration and then focus on our research on semantic querying, semantic mapping, and semantic inferencing.