Abstract
Abstract: In recent years, manufacturing supply chains are inclined to be worldwide business activity due to economic advantage of product development and service deployment in globalized world. This worldwide nature encompasses of complex business interactions and interchange of information between geographically distributed enterprises in different business sectors. Semantic web service can provide appropriate information exchange architectures for global supply chain business operations. This paper describes the main features of an ontology-based Semantic Web Service Architecture (SWSA), for which a prototype system was built for material procurement systems of a manufacturing supply chain. Description Logics (DL) are used to represent the terminological knowledge of SWSA in a structured way. The architecture uses a hybrid knowledge-based system which consists of Structured Case-Based Reasoning (S-CBR), Rule-Based Reasoning (RBR), and a service concept matching algorithm. SWSA includes: (1) a collection of web service descriptions in Ontology Web Language-Based Service (OWL-S), (2) service advertisement using business Complex Concept (CC), and (3) a concept similarity assessment algorithm. Finally, an example of this concept similarity assessment algorithm is presented to demonstrate its functionality.
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