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Ontological Modeling of E-Catalogs using Description Logic  

Lee Hyunja (숙명여자대학교 컴퓨터과학부)
Shim Junho (숙명여자대학교 정보과학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Databases / v.32, no.2, 2005 , pp. 111-119 More about this Journal
Abstract
Electronic catalog contains ich semantics associated with products, and serves as a challenging practical domain for ontology application. Ontology is concerned with the nature and relations of being. It can play a crucial role in e-commerce as a formalization of e-Catalogs. Description Logics provide a theoretical core for most of the current ontology languages. In this paper, we present an ontological model of e-Catalogs in DL. We take an Extended Entity Relationship approach for conceptual modeling method, and present the fundamental set of modeling constructs and corresponding description language representation for each construct. Additional semantic knowledge can be represented directly in DL. Our modeling language stands within SHIQ(d) which is known reasonably practical with regard to its expressiveness and complexity. We illustrate sample scenarios to show how our approach may be utilized in modeling e-Catalogs, and also implement the scenarios through a DL inference tool to see the practical feasibility.
Keywords
e-Catalog; e-Commerce; Ontology; EER; Description Logic;
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