Collaborative Commerce in Supply Chains: An Approach to Facilitate Semantic Interoperability

GUADALUPE RICO, MARIELA; LAURA CALIUSCO, MARÍA; TAVERNA, MARIA LAURA; CHIOTTI, OMAR; ROSA GALLI, MARÍA

Santa Fe

Jornada; Jornadas de Informática Industrial: Cadenas de Abastecimiento; 2008

A collaborative commerce relationship is characterized by enterprises that want to exchange only the necessary information to achieve common goals with their trading partners, without loosing their autonomy and privacy. In this scenario, it is necessary to define an approach for allowing trading partners to exchange information without imposing a global meaning to facilitate semantic interoperability. To this aim, in this paper, an approach is proposed to make some domain features that are generally implicit in domain ontologies explicit. In addition, a metamodel for supporting the modeling of these extended ontologies is also presented.