Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Ontology Enabled Collaborative Commerce Platform (SOCP) in the Cloud

• Main Authors: Yao-Jen Lee, 李曜任
• Other Authors: Chuan-Jun Su
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37514646062080239050

碩士 === 元智大學 === 工業工程與管理學系 === 99 === The competition of e-commerce is getting fiercer and customers are becoming more demanding. Customers navigate through the millions of products and services to fulfill their needs. Manufacturers and supplier need to maintain full spectrum of related products and service to be attractive to customers. Focusing on producing their core competitive products with their proprietary capability becomes desirable yet unreachable. SOA encourages liberating the silos of data and software in an organization as web services, that making it possible to share and reuse them anywhere in a loosely-coupled way. For less complicated applications, Representational State Transfer (REST) is an easy way to implement SOA. Cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Using the RESTful paradigm and deploying SOA in a cloud computing environment provide a promising way for developing a cost-effective collaborative commerce platform. To enrich semantic and interoperability for heterogeneous e-commerce platforms, an United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) -centered product ontology is developed and used for consolidating the suppliers’ merchandise information. The ontological recommendation system can infer the preferred products and make the purchasing suggestions for buyers according to buyer profiles and inferring engine of knowledge base. This research aims to design and develop a SOA and Ontology-driven Collaborative Commerce Platform (SOCP) to be deployed in a Cloud Computing environment. The SOCP is expected to provide an effective platform for both buyers and sellers to transact with uniform product information. The SOCP enables not only suppliers to focus on their core competency but also end-users to gain personal and rich online shopping experience.