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1. Buyers communicate their needs to the e-marketplace using standardized
ontology for specifying the buyer needs.
BuyerNeeds ??† (Resource) ??§
(= 1 hasCharacteristics . BuyerID)??§
(= 1 CoordinatesFlowProducedBy . ComunicateBuyerNeeds) ??§
(= 1 CoordinatesFlowConsumedBy . DiscoverSuppliers)
a. The BuyerNeeds resource abstracts the specialized buyer requirements
and buyer needs as shown in Figure 6. This inheritance hierarchy of buyer
needs illustrates the ability to specify meta-knowledge of processes and
instantiate the individual workflows using multiple types of resources
that inherit from the same parent resource used in the process knowledge
specification.
BuyersNeeds ??† ( Resource)
BuyersRequirements ??† BuyerNeeds
BuyerPreferences ??† BuyerNeeds
b. BuyersRequirements are buyer needs that specify buyers??™ demand function.
Figure 6. Buyer needs is an abstraction for the buyer requirements and buyer preferences
involved in the supplier selection e-business process
Buyer Needs Inher tance
The Suppl er D scovery Bus ness Process s nvoked for
Buyer Requ rements or Buyer Preference Resources
Resource:
Buyer
Requirements
Resource:
Buyer
Preferences
Resource:
Buyer
Needs
Semant c Knowledge Transparency n E-Bus ness Processes
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