Joon Myun Cho , Soon Hung Han , Hyun Kim

The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 365-374, Jun. 2005
10.3745/KIPSTD.2005.12.3.365,   PDF Download:

Abstract

The B2B electronic product commerce needs intermediary system to provide an integrated interface for the parts libraries of multiple suppliers. However, it is difficult to automatically integrate the parts libraries because they are heterogeneous. Existing ontology-based approaches show a limited functionality of automated integration of information because they can not prevent ontologies from being modeled in different ways, so that the inter-ontology mappings to resolve the heterogeneity become complicated and arbitrary. In order to overcome such problems this paper proposes an ontology modeling framework for parts libraries based on the Guarino´s theory of upper ontology. The framework provides knowledge modeling primitives which have explicit formal meanings and modeling principles based on ontological natures. Using the framework, ontology developers can model the knowledge of parts libraries systematically and consistently, so that the resulting ontologies become comparable and uniform, and the ontology merging algorithm for the automated information integration can be easily developed.

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