is prohibited.
that support the transparent exchange of information and knowledge make interorganizational
e-business relationships viable.
Semantic.Web
Another theoretical foundation of the semantic knowledge transparency in e-business
processes is the concept of the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is an extension
of the current Web in which information is given ???well-defined meaning??? to allow
machines to ???process and understand??? the information presented to them (Berners-
Lee et al., 2001, p. 35). According to Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web comprises
and requires knowledge representation, ontologies, and agents in order to function
(Figure 2 shows the different layers of the Semantic Web architecture):
???. Knowledge.representation: Structured collections of information and sets of
inference rules that can be used to conduct automated reasoning. Knowledge
representations must be linked into a single system.
???. Ontologies: Systems must have a way to discover common meanings for
entity representations. In philosophy, ontology is a theory about the nature of
existence; in systems, ontology is a document that formally describes classes
of objects and defines the relationship among them.
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