ONTOLOGY-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES - Accomplished within the Project: Future Network-based Semantic Technologies (FUNSET-Science)

Gottfried Koppensteiner, Munir Merdan, Wilfried Lepuschitz, Erhard List, Lisa Vittori

2009

Abstract

In current networked organizations knowledge is distributed among the organization and their partners resulting in the loss of transparency regarding the kind and the place of knowledge within the network. Our approach is to use the semantic technology together with software agents in order to improve knowledge capturing, reuse and transfer. Our paper describes an ontology-based multi-agent approach for the knowledge exchange and process control with and within virtual enterprises. Different case-studies with different ontologies are combined with a negotiation ontology, which is used as intercrossing, to support semantic interoperability between heterogeneous inter- as well as cross-company levels.

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Koppensteiner G., Merdan M., Lepuschitz W., List E. and Vittori L. (2009). ONTOLOGY-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES - Accomplished within the Project: Future Network-based Semantic Technologies (FUNSET-Science) . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 300-307. DOI: 10.5220/0002311103000307


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@conference{keod09,
author={Gottfried Koppensteiner and Munir Merdan and Wilfried Lepuschitz and Erhard List and Lisa Vittori},
title={ONTOLOGY-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES - Accomplished within the Project: Future Network-based Semantic Technologies (FUNSET-Science)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={300-307},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002311103000307},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - ONTOLOGY-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES - Accomplished within the Project: Future Network-based Semantic Technologies (FUNSET-Science)
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Koppensteiner G.
AU - Merdan M.
AU - Lepuschitz W.
AU - List E.
AU - Vittori L.
PY - 2009
SP - 300
EP - 307
DO - 10.5220/0002311103000307