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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"

The foundations of the proposed approach
are conceptually represented in Figure 1 and explanations follow.
E-Business
Electronic data interchange (EDI) is an information technology that allows business
partners to send and receive commercial documents in an electronic format (Hansen
Figure 1. Conceptual representation of semantic knowledge transparency and
integration.
Semantic Web
Ontology,
Knowledge
Representation,
Intelligent Agents
e-Business
e-Marketplace,
Infomediary
Knowledge Management
Organizational Knowledge,
Interorganizational Processes
Coordination
Semantic
Knowledge
Transparency
Semant c Knowledge Transparency n E-Bus ness Processes
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& Hill, 1989). Under EDI proprietary value-added networks data disclosure and
information transparency were not a concern. Interestingly, EDI by itself does not
provide market transparency (Zhu, 2004).
Nowadays, businesses are moving from EDI to Web-based systems.


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