Ontology-Based E-Catalog Matching for Integration of GDSN and EPCglobal Network

  • Authors:

  • Joshua Zhexue Huang;Feilong Tang;Yunming Ye;George Huang;Minglu Li

  • Affiliations:

  • the University of Hong Kong;the University of Hong Kong;Harbin Institute of Technology;Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, the University of Hong Kong;Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai

  • Venue:
  • ICEBE '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

EPCglobal network is aimed to capture the realtime dynamic information about the flow of goods in the global supply chain. The global data synchronization network (GDSN) can automatically synchronize the static product information among trading partners. To maximize the efficiency of the global supply chain and further increase the market share and revenues of companies, these two technologies must be integrated to support full and highly-efficient collaboration among trading partners. This paper proposes a model to integrate these two networks, and discusses the key issues and technologies for implementation of the integration model. Intelligent e-catalog matching is at the heart of this integration. Because of lack of unified e-catalog standards, we propose to use ontology to solve the ecatalog matching problems and introduce a matching algorithm to maximize the accuracy of product searching in product sourcing operations.