Context-Sensitive Semantic Synchronization Enablement in Electronic Negotiations

Abstract

When integrating electronic negotiations into real-world business processes, an important problem arising is the magnitude of e-business standards in use. In order to support electronic negotiations when negotiation partners use and need to integrate terms named and formatted according to different document standards, taxonomies or similar standards, references between those standards are needed. In this paper, we present a framework for a negotiation support meta-tool which is designed to maintain and dynamically evolve a collection of such references. To deal with semantic ambiguities in different contexts, it provides users with context-sensitive references. The framework uses technologies from ontological engineering and machine learning, its services can be integrated into existing negotiation applications via web services. Furthermore, it allows parameterzation for the actual domain of use.

New Ways of Mapping Knowledge Organization Systems: Using a Semi-Automatic Matching Procedure for Building up Vocabulary Crosswalks

“…Similar to the evaluation scenario presented in this article are approaches that enable a validation of the detected correspondences after the matching process. While Paulheim (2007) enables a rating of correspondences by the user, the matching process presented by Cruz (2012) and Noy (2003) is performed iteratively. User feedback on correspondences is directly included into the subsequent matching tasks.…”