AN ONTOLOGY-BASED E-BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS REGISTRY

ABSTRACT Over the last decade great expectations have been placed on Enterprise Modelling and Integration through ontologies. However, most of the existing proposals concentrate on the internal business processes and the issue of E-business process modeling still remains a big challenge for research to tackle. In this regard, this paper presents a first approach towards a standard ontology-based framework for developing an E-business transactions Registry, in which interoperable transactions of heterogeneous business domains – Enterprises, Governmental and Banking Institutions of different countries (cross-border) or Enterprises of different interests (cross-sector) are going to be modelled. Such an Interoperability Registry is a system devoted to the formal description, composition and publishing of traditional, electronic, or web services, together with the relevant documents, rules and the process descriptions in an integrated schema. Through this repository, the discovery of e-business transactions by users –enterprises, government, intermediaries- or systems can be automated, resulting in an important tool for managing e-Business transformation towards achieving cross-sector and cross-border interoperability.