Building the DAML Electronic Commerce Domain

Abstract

The inability of the Web applications built on the prevalent hypertext markup language (HTML) infrastructure to meaningfully share information has greatly hindered electronic commerce. These applications do not adequately analyze and semantically structure the overwhelming amounts of data returned to a user through a keyword, full-text, or other search. The inadequacy of the existing Web tools to semantically structure information has caused staggering costs and productivity losses in the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce domain. Agent technology provides an efficient approach to achieving interoperabilty of Web applications and offers a framework for developing Semantic Web tools that enable seamless electronic commerce. This project has built a B2B eCommerce Gateway (DAMLGate) on the DARPA agent markup language (DAML) infrastructure. DAMLGate enables interoperability and linking of Web documents to machine-readable ontologies. The initial version of DAMLGate facilitates distributed agile manufacturing processes in the highly automated and dynamic electronics assembly environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 2002
Accession Number
ADA417127

Entities

People

  • David E. Anyiwo

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronics
  • Html
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Manufacturing
  • Markup Languages
  • Production
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics