An Ontology for Agent-Based Monitoring of Fulfillment Processes
Roland Zimmermann, S. Käs, Robert Butscher, Freimut Bodendorf · Birkhäuser-Verlag eBooks · 2005
An agent-based supply chain monitoring system for tracking orders and their related suborders is presented. To enable the necessary communication between the agents an ontology is introduced. The design of the ontology and the implementation are discussed in detail. The usage of the ontology for inter-agent communication is illustrated with the help of AUML models of the agent-interactions in the supply chain monitoring system. Concluding, two prototypes of the system are presented.