Building the DAML Electronic Commerce Domain

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Building the DAML Electronic Commerce Domain

• David E. Anyiwo
• Bowie State University

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Motivation

• The inability of most Web applications to
  communicate and meaningfully share relevant
  information has severely constrained
  business-to-business (B2B) and other types of
  electronic commerce.
• Web-based business information is largely
  characterized by low intelligence density.
• Consequently, most businesses incur staggering
  logistical costs and productivity losses in their
  e-business transactions.

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Motivation (contd)

• A recent study by SAIC found that up to 40 of
  product design time in the missile industry was
  spent searching for relevant information, such
  as, design data, part specifications, production
  plans, models, simulations, price quotes, and
  schedule estimates.
• According to the study, about 50 of the
  development and production time and cost of most
  large-scale system projects lie in the supply
  chain below the prime contractor level.
• There is a growing need to transition evolving
  DAML tools to enhance electronic commerce.

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The DAML EC Domain

• Build a business-oriented ontology domain on the
  DAML infrastructure to support business-to-busines
  s electronic commerce.
• The DAML EC Gateway facilitates the discovery and
  distribution of rich semantic descriptions of
  commercial products and services, front- and
  back-office applications, expertise and provides
  other portal services.
• Subsequent versions of the DAML EC Gateway will
  support business-to-customer and other electronic
  commerce models.

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Ongoing Activities

• Identify and structure common e-commerce
  marketplace value propositions.
• Organize and involve various user groups in the
  creation of clearinghouses from which computer
  and other industry DTDs can be sourced.
• Build and maintain libraries of rich,
  cross-enterprise ontology assets.

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Ongoing Activities (contd)

• Plan a workshop to establish the baseline for
  developing a common, dynamically extensible
  ontology base for the computer manufacturing
  industry.
• Construct relevant industry value chain and other
  business-to-business e-commerce models.

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Challenges

• Coordination of collaborative efforts within the
  DAML Program
• Promotion of DAML/DAML-S tools for broad-based
  application in the e-commerce marketplace.
• Facilitation of interconnectivity coordination
  among e-business solution providers.