An Ontological Approach to Logistics
Laura Daniele, Luís Ferreira Pires · 2013
Ontologies enable common understanding of concepts, and have been acknowledged as a powerful means to foster collaboration. This chapter states that the use of ontologies can be beneficial for enterprise interoperability in the logistics domain, to improve communication and foster knowledge reuse, to facilitate the integration of existing systems and to support the development process of software solutions. It presents some examples of semantic interoperability issues in logistics. The chapter gives some background information on ontologies, and discusses possible applications of ontologies in the logistics domain. It presents the ontological approach for logistics, and presents a representative fragment of the core ontology for logistics. The chapter discusses some related work in the area of ontologies, and finally, presents the conclusions and future work.