Ontology-driven coordination for supply chain system

This paper proposes an ontology-driven coordination framework for information interoperation in supply chain system (SCS). To achieve semantic interoperability in heterogeneous enterprise information systems, ontologies have been advised to use. Mapping among multiple ontologies is necessary for an across-enterprises supply chain. In some complex supply chain, it highly demands semantic interoperability to bridge heterogeneous enterprise applications at various domain into an integrative system. In this paper, we elaborate application ontologies and their mapping logic in SCS, and discuss how to use object-oriented technologies to define primitive ontology and describe ontology coordination logic. We also discuss how to design and implement the coordination framework to solving the semantic interoperability for supply chain information system.