Collaborative Negotiation for Ontology-Driven Enterprise Businesses

Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves , Carlos Coutinho , Adina Cretan , Catarina Ferreira da Silva (1) , Parisa Ghodous (1)

1 SOC - Service Oriented Computing

The requirements from a globalised world demand that enterprises not only shift their paradigm from product-centrism to component-centrism on integrated products, potentiating the need for tight interoperability dependencies, but also that the products specifications and concepts are fully understood by customers and providers in a transparent manner that surpasses the barriers of language, culture and technology. This paper presents the NEGOSEIO framework, which enables service-based interoperability between parties, closely integrated with semantics and business understanding via the use of reference ontologies in the quest for achieving a stronger interoperability liaison. The paper’s validation and discussion is performed in its application on the ontology negotiation of business environments in the scope of the EU-funded FP7 project TIMBUS for digitally preservation of resources and enduring business continuity.

Mots clés: Enterprise InteroperabilityOntologyConflict resolutionNegotiationEnterprise Information Systems

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves, Carlos Coutinho, Adina Cretan, Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Parisa Ghodous. Collaborative Negotiation for Ontology-Driven Enterprise Businesses. Computers in Industry, 2014, 65 (9), pp.1232-1241. ⟨10.1016/j.compind.2014.01.001⟩. ⟨hal-01270661⟩