IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Discovery Process in a B2B eMarketplace: A Semantic Matchmaking Approach

Discovery Process in a B2B eMarketplace: A Semantic Matchmaking Approach
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Fergle D’Aubeterre (Flint Transfield Services Ltd (FT-SERVICES), Canada), Lakshmi S. Iyer (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), Richard Ehrhardt (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)and Rahul Singh (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 24
Source title: Intelligent, Adaptive and Reasoning Technologies: New Developments and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vijayan Sugumaran (Oakland University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-595-7.ch005

Purchase

View Discovery Process in a B2B eMarketplace: A Semantic Matchmaking Approach on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

In the context of a customer-oriented value chain, companies must effectively address customers changing information needs during the process of acquiring a product or service to remain competitive. The ultimate goal of semantic matchmaking is to identify the best resources (supply) that fully meet the requirements (demand); however, such a goal is very difficult to achieve due to information distributed over disparate systems. To alleviate this problem in the context of eMarketplaces, the authors suggest an agent-enabled infomediary-based eMarketplace that enables semantic matchmaking. They extend and apply the exact, partial, and potential match algorithms developed in Di Noia et al. (2004) to show how partial and potential matches can become full matches. Specifically, the authors show how multi-criteria decision making techniques can be utilized to rank matches. They describe mechanisms for knowledge representation and exchange to allow partner organizations to seamlessly share information and knowledge to facilitate the discovery process in an eMarketplace context.

Related Content

Kamel Mouloudj, Vu Lan Oanh LE, Achouak Bouarar, Ahmed Chemseddine Bouarar, Dachel Martínez Asanza, Mayuri Srivastava. © 2024. 20 pages.
José Eduardo Aleixo, José Luís Reis, Sandrina Francisca Teixeira, Ana Pinto de Lima. © 2024. 52 pages.
Jorge Figueiredo, Isabel Oliveira, Sérgio Silva, Margarida Pocinho, António Cardoso, Manuel Pereira. © 2024. 24 pages.
Fatih Pinarbasi. © 2024. 20 pages.
Stavros Kaperonis. © 2024. 25 pages.
Thomas Rui Mendes, Ana Cristina Antunes. © 2024. 24 pages.
Nuno Geada. © 2024. 12 pages.
Body Bottom