Semantic Interpretation of UN/EDIFACT Messages for Evaluating Inter-organizational Relationships

Authors: 
Worarat Krathu
Christian Pichler
Robert Engel
Marco Zapletal
Type: 
Speech with proceedings
Proceedings: 
The 5th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT'12)
Publisher: 
Pages: 
81 - 93
ISBN: 
ISBN: 978-3-642-35075-7
Year: 
2012
Abstract: 
Electronic information exchange between business partners based on UN/EDIFACT messages directly reflects inter-organizational business performance, which is typically evaluated by management people. However, querying such messages results in an ambiguous task for management people due to the complex structure of EDIFACT formats. For this reason, we provide an ontology-based extraction framework for EDIFACT messages. The framework provides (i) business information concepts reflecting business performance, and enables (ii) the automated extraction of business data from EDIFACT messages by applying reasoning techniques. Having the framework at hand allows querying business information from EDIFACT messages based on business information concepts resulting in three distinct advantages: (i) the reduction of the complexity of querying tasks and the accessibility of business information, (ii) the querying of super- and sub-concepts, and (iii) the reduction of the search scope.
TU Focus: 
Computational Science and Engineering
Reference: 

W. Krathu, C. Pichler, R. Engel, M. Zapletal, H. Werthner:
"Semantic Interpretation of UN/EDIFACT Messages for Evaluating Inter-organizational Relationships";
Vortrag: The 5th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT'12), Bangkok, Thailand; 06.12.2012 - 07.12.2012; in: "The 5th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT'12)", (2012), ISBN: 978-3-642-35075-7; S. 81 - 93.

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Last changed: 
20.12.2012 06:23:15
TU Id: 
210343
Accepted: 
Accepted
Invited: 
Department Focus: 
Business Informatics
Abstract German: 
Author List: 
W. Krathu, C. Pichler, R. Engel, M. Zapletal, H. Werthner