Authors:
Christophe Debruyne
1
;
Davor Meersman
2
;
Mathias Baert
3
and
Rami Hansenne
3
Affiliations:
1
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
;
2
Curtin University, Australia
;
3
iChoosr BVBA, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Product and RFP Ontology, Request for proposals, Semantic matching, Data integration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Internet Technology
;
Knowledge Management
;
Metadata and Metamodeling
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
XML and Data Management
Abstract:
This paper presents a platform for requests for proposals and describes how ontologies drive the different components: the creation of a proposal, the annotation of vendor data, the transformation of vendor data into other formats and the semantic matching of a proposal against annotated vendor data. The ontology construction started from DOGMA, a methodology with its grounding in the linguistic representation of knowledge that is suitable for community participation in the creation process. The ontologies were created in a modular way, with general product and meta-models that can be extended depending on the domain. In the case of the pilot, the product were holiday packages, more precisely winter sports holiday packages.