Ontological Approach to Integration of Event-Centric Logistics Information into EPC Network

As business organizations have become more complicated and large-scale, so have collaboration among business partners and enterprise information integration become more common. A number of integration approaches to semantic collaboration have been addressed. Over the past few decades, ontology-based integration approaches have been the focus. Ontology is considered to be one of the typical semantic representation methods. As logistics enables business networks, and as logistics data is stored in distributed information systems, semantic information integration is required among logistics partners. In the present study, we addressed the issue of an ontological approach to integration of event-centric logistics information into EPC-based logistics. We formalized the logistics and logistics events, and generalized and extended a previously developed logistics ontology. In this paper, we introduce an ontological method for integrating distributed logistics information into the EPC network.