Title :
Semantic Inference on Heterogeneous E-Marketplace Activities
Author :
Guo, Jingzhi ; Xu, Lida ; Gong, Zhiguo ; Che, Chin-Pang ; Chaudhry, Sohail S.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Macau, Macao, China
fDate :
3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) is a common business information space populated with many entities of different system types. Each of them has its own context of how to process activities. This leads to heterogeneous e-marketplace activities, which are difficult to make interoperable and inferred from one entity to another. This study solves this problem by proposing a concept of separation strategy and implementing it through providing a semantic inference engine with a novel inference algorithm. The solution, called the RuleXPM approach, enables one to semantically infer a next e-marketplace activity across multiple contexts/domains. Experiments show that the cross-context/cross-domain semantic inference is achievable. This paper is an understanding of many aspects related to heterogeneous activity inference.
Keywords :
business data processing; inference mechanisms; retail data processing; semantic Web; RuleXPM approach; business information space; cross context semantic inference; cross domain semantic inference; electronic marketplace; heterogeneous activity inference; heterogeneous e-marketplace activities; separation strategy; Business; Collaboration; Context; Engines; Ontologies; Semantics; Vocabulary; Electronic marketplace (e-marketplace); heterogeneous systems; inference engine; semantic consistency maintenance; semantic inference;
Journal_Title :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2162946