Technology Roadmap of Semantic Services Oriented Architecture for E-business

The research described in this paper explores an effective way to support e-business tasks through semantic services oriented architecture (SSOA). A proposed SSOA and its technology roadmap are discussed from a number of e-business perspectives including consumers, suppliers, integrations and cooperation. Supply chain management is a typical sector within e-business. A supply chain case study is provided as an application example to illustrate the vision of this research.