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INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO Y DISEÑO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Adding Semantics to Electronic Business Documents Exchanged in Collaborative Commerce Relations
Autor/es:
RICO, MARIELA; TAVERNA, MARIA LAURA; CALIUSCO, MARÍA LAURA; CHIOTTI, OMAR; GALLI, MARÍA R
Revista:
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Editorial:
Universidad de Talca
Referencias:
Lugar: Talca - Chile; Año: 2009 vol. 4 p. 72 - 90
ISSN:
07181876
Resumen:
In order to support the execution of collaborative business processes, trading partners have to exchange
electronic business documents. Since each partner has its own systems and culture, they could use different
terms and metadata structures to represent their data, even when referring to the same domain of interest.
Then, an appropriate approach for defining the semantics of these documents is required to achieve semantic
interoperability. To this aim, a number of approaches have been proposed based on the use of a single domain
ontology. These approaches imply the imposition of a global meaning of terms, which are used to represent the
entities of a domain. This goes in opposition to one of the aims of trading partners, which is to participate in
collaborative business processes without losing their autonomy and privacy. In this scenario, it is necessary to
define a framework for allowing trading partners to exchange information without imposing a global meaning of
it. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed in order to define the semantics of the electronic business
documents interchanged between trading partners in a collaborative relationship. This approach is based on the
idea of making some domain features, which are generally implicit, explicit in the domain ontologies. An
application example of this approach is also presented.