Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation

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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"

Relations,
such as inverse and transitivity, were also identified. For example, the
sightseeing concept is disjoint from the shopping concept.
??? Background knowledge for each concept was added to express domain-relevant
properties. For example, a tourism organization has a telephone number, a fax
number, an address, and an e-mail.
Ontology Creation
In an early stage of our project, the ontologies were implemented using Prot?©g?©
(n.d.) editor. This was a very time-consuming task since it was necessary to find out
information about real tourism activities and infrastructures on the Web and feed
them into the knowledge base.
The main components of the tourism ontologies are concepts, relations, instances,
and axioms. A concept represents a set or class of entities within the tourism domain.
Activity,.Organization, Weather, and Time are examples of concepts used. These
concepts were represented in OWL in the following way:
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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"