Developing a web-based ontology for e-business

Abstract

Ontological engineering (OE) is a subset of knowledge science. Ontology is a powerful technique for knowledge management and reasoning tasks. Recently, most research of OE is related to developing robust, smart, knowledge-based systems in different domains. Nowadays, e-business, or electronic business, is the integrated execution of all business analytics processes of an enterprise by means of smart computing and informatics. The objective of this study is to develop a web-based ontology for e-business paradigms. In this work, five web-based ontologies were designed for the following: (a) e-business applications; (b) e-business participants; (c) e-business infrastructure; (d) e-business support areas, and (e) fields in e-business. The developed ontologies were implemented in ontology web-based language OWL2 using the Protégé smart tool version 5.0.0 editing environment.