The Semantic Web is a key component for realizing the vision of semantic knowledge
transparency in e-business processes. The Semantic Web provides the technical
foundations to support the transparent flow of semantic knowledge representation
to automate, enhance, and coordinate collaborative inter-organizational e-business
processes (Singh, Iyer, et al., 2005). The Semantic Web vision comprises ontologies
for common semantics of representation and ways to interpret ontology; knowledge
representation for structured collections of information and inference rules for automated
reasoning in a single system; and intelligent agent to collect content from
diverse sources and exchange data enriched with semantics (Berners-Lee, Hendler,
& Lassila, 2001). This vision provides the foundation for the semantic framework
proposed in this research.
This chapter is structured as follows. First, we conduct a review and analysis of the
relevant literature in the areas of e-business, KM, and the Semantic Web. Second, the
conceptualization of the e-business process universe of discourse and its description
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