Towards an Ontology-enabled Approach Helping SMEs to Access the Single European Electronic Market
Celson Pantoja Lima, Flavio Bonfatti, Silvia Sancho, Anastasiya Yurchyshyna · Conference on Leading Web in Concurrent Engineering · 2006
The SEAMLESS project targets the design and deployment of a self-organising, open, dynamic collaborative e-environment providing companies (especially SMEs) with the required means to support their e-business needs without cultural/technological constraints. SEAMLESS represents the instantiation of the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM) concept considering the environmental conditions (technical and business-related) required to support simple but useful e-business practices targeting the enlarged Europe. The SEAMLESS conceptual approach is ontology-enabled since the business interoperation heavily depends on how effectively SMEs are able to understand precisely the meaning of the business requests among them. This paper discusses the SEAMLESS vision and framework, and points out the challenges to be faced.