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Constructing intelligent and open mobile commerce using a semantic web approach

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, People’s Republic of China

Kaiquan Xu

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, People’s Republic of China

Stephen Shaoyi Liao

Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, issliao{at}cityu.edu.hk

To achieve the full potential of mobile commerce (m-Commerce), many problems need to be resolved, such as how to make m-Commerce seamlessly span wide areas with heterogeneous information sources; how to improve the matchmaking between user requirements and product specifications; and how to make m-Commerce systems more intelligent in taking different actions according to different user context environments. We believe that the semantic web is a promising technology to solve these problems. In this paper, a framework is proposed in which semantic web ontology is used to model the contexts, user profiles, and product/service information. The semantic web service ontology, OWL-S, is extended for matching user requirements with product specifications at the semantic level, with context information taken into account. Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) is used for inferencing with context and user profile descriptions. Our system adopts a multi-agent infrastructure to deal with the integration and interaction between information sources and users. This paper demonstrates some of the great potential of semantic web technology for m-Commerce.

Key Words: semantic web • mobile commerce • ontology

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 31, No. 5, 407-419 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0165551505055404


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