A Semantic Web Service-Oriented Model for E-Commerce

E-commerce on the Internet provides a high level of flexibility and openness, but it still has many drawbacks due to the heterogeneity of the exchanged information. Web Services have added a new level of functionality on top of current Web, enabling the use and combination of distributed functional components within and across company boundaries, but they offer only syntactical description that are hardly amenable to automation. Developments in the field of semantic Web services (SWS) show the opportunity of adding higher semantic levels to the existing frameworks, to improve their usage and ease scalability. In this paper, we outline a semantic Web e-commerce in which data sources and services are made available through SWS, described by ontologies, allowing interoperability as well as reasoning to create a comprehensive response adapted to user goals. We present a semantic Web service oriented model for e-commerce, aiming to integrate the development of semantic Web services using the WSMO into ISR-III framework, it can also be applied to e-government.