Heterogeneous Knowledge Integration for Supply Chain Systems
Qi Xu · 2005
In supply chain systems,it becomes high necessary to extract pertinent information and apply consistent and current knowledge to assessing buying and selling information that comes from a variety of heterogeneous sources of supply chain system. This paper addresses knowledge synthesis in facilitating integration for supply chain. We dis- cuss an agent-based and ontology-based innovative architecture to provide a computing framework for ease of knowl- edge syntheses by taking into consideration the state-of-the-art software technologies. Using the system,agent can delegate variety of tasks to interact in a integrated mean. Formal models of domain ontology and knowledge base are elucidated, which aim at creating the foundation for representing information using a desirable common semantics. Re- source description framework schema is proposed as the vehicle of data transformation so that heterogeneous knowl- edge syntheses can be performed effectively by taking advantage of emerging computing technologies. By doing so, necessary information and data are promptly accessible and retrieved knowledge from the deployed supply chain sys- tem is consistent,pertinent,and current.