A semantic-mediation architecture for interoperable supply-chain applications

Vujasinovic, Marko; Ivezic, Nenad; Kulvatunyou, Boonserm; Barkmeyer, Edward J.; Missikoff, Michele; Taglino, Francesco; Marjanovic, Zoran; Miletić, Igor

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“…As explained in Section 2, this type of mismatched case is called an 'element granularity mismatch'. Semantic Gateway resolves this element granularity mismatch by having the original message from OEM go though four translation steps as shown below, where (1) and (2) are captured in Figure 6, while (3) (1) (Lifting OEM's XML to OEM's RDF) the two elements, './customer' and './partName' of the OEM's BOD lift into the corresponding RDF document and constitute L OEM according to the XML to RDF transformation algorithm (Vujasinovic et al 2008).…”

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“…Especially, Bicer et al share their framework, Artemis 3 through an open source agreement. On the contrary, for any-to-one architecture, ATHENA 4 provided a toolset for both design and run-time activities to enable the proposed semantic mediation of heterogeneous XML messages (Vujasinovic et al 2008). Our proposed system adopts the any-to-one approach with further studies in Sections 5 to 7, each of which provides a specific literature review.…”

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A semantic e-Kanban system for network-centric manufacturing: technology, scale-free convergence, value and cost-sharing considerations

Park

Shin

2012

International Journal of Production Research

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It is critical to facilitate business partners to be seamlessly interoperable with each other as the network-centric manufacturing (NCM) paradigm becomes a major trend in today's manufacturing environment. In this work, we propose a semantic e-Kanban inventory system where a semantic gateway is acting as a mapping hub to enable heterogeneous messages to be seamlessly exchanged between business partners on demand. The semantic gateway uses reasoning rules to map business partners' proprietary data schemas and provides interoperability required for NCM. To observe the network dynamics of our proposed system, a discrete time dynamic model is built and shows its growth to a scale-free network with a convergence rate depending on the initial connectivity of the semantic gateway and preferential attachment parameters. To analyse the proposed system from an economic perspective, analytical and numerical studies are conducted showing that it has enough potential to reduce supply chain costs in comparison to those of the traditional approach. Finally, this study attempts to address the cost-sharing issue encountered when multiple partners are direct beneficiaries of the efficiency gain through a joint network-centric capability, but it is questionable who should pay for the capability implementation. The cost-sharing issue must be investigated because most network-centric capabilities would not be economically or technically feasible for an individual company to achieve.

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A semantic e-Kanban system for network-centric manufacturing: technology, scale-free convergence, value and cost-sharing considerations

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Shin

2012

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Their potential for achieving a more effective and efficient management of the information spread out along the chain is a major research opportunity, largely with a view to driving innovation in industry. Another series of papers with a more technical slant focuses on the development of such systems, proposing innovative designs and architectures (e.g., Grefen et al, 2009;Vujasinovic et al, 2009). …”

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Study of supply-chain management in the automotive industry: a bibliometric analysis

González‐Benito

Lannelongue

Alfaro

2013

International Journal of Production Research

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“…The main body of research in supply chain information interoperability has been focused on information exchange among the supply chain participants after the supply chain is configured [1]. However, information interoperability in preconfiguration stages is equally important as it improves the quality of communication among suppliers when searching for appropriate manufacturing counterparts [2].…”

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“…One promising approach for addressing the interoperability issue is the use of formal ontologies that encode explicit capability knowledge. In fact, several research projects have used ontological approach for dealing with information interoperability in manufacturing supply chains [1,3,4]. One of the key challenges in developing ontologies is knowledge acquisition especially when dealing with a vast and complex domain such as manufacturing.…”

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Manufacturing Capability Inference and Supplier Classification Based on a Formal Thesaurus

Ameri

Thornhill

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Standard representation of manufacturing capability information is a necessity for efficient configuration of loosely-coupled supply chains. ManuTerms is a formal thesaurus that provides a set of standard vocabulary that can be used for description of manufacturing capabilities. In this paper, a method is proposed for supplier characterization and classification guided by ManuTerms. The tools developed in this work use the capability narrative of manufacturing suppliers as the input and extract key concepts that refer to certain aspects of manufacturing capabilities in order to characterize and classify manufacturing suppliers. Through an experimental study, the supplier classification method was validated with respect to the level of agreement with human judgment.Keywords: supply chain interoperability, manufacturing capability, thesaurus, supplier characterization. IntroductionEffective configuration and operation of distributed supply chains highly depends on the ability to meaningfully exchange engineering information among the supply chain members. The main body of research in supply chain information interoperability has been focused on information exchange among the supply chain participants after the supply chain is configured [1]. However, information interoperability in preconfiguration stages is equally important as it improves the quality of communication among suppliers when searching for appropriate manufacturing counterparts [2]. A significant portion of the information exchanged and consumed during the supply chain pre-configuration stages is related to the manufacturing capabilities that different suppliers can offer. Manufacturing capability of a supplier refers to the aggregate abilities, skills, and expertise a supplier can provide to the customers enabled by its internal and external resources. The existing models for manufacturing capability representation are often proprietary and unstructured or semi-structured without well-defined semantics. This has resulted in information loss and information ambiguity in supply chain communications. In order to streamline information exchange in the early stages of supply chain lifecycle, it is imperative to develop

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A semantic-mediation architecture for interoperable supply-chain applications

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

A semantic e-Kanban system for network-centric manufacturing: technology, scale-free convergence, value and cost-sharing considerations

A semantic e-Kanban system for network-centric manufacturing: technology, scale-free convergence, value and cost-sharing considerations

Study of supply-chain management in the automotive industry: a bibliometric analysis

Manufacturing Capability Inference and Supplier Classification Based on a Formal Thesaurus

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