Extending the SweetDeal Approach for e-Procurement Using SweetRules and RuleML

We show the first detailed realistic e-business application scenario that uses and exploits capabilities of the SweetRules V2.1 toolset for e-contracting using the SweetDeal approach. SweetRules is a uniquely powerful integrated set of tools for semantic web rules and ontologies. SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate and execute contacts with substantial automation and modularity. The scenario that we implement is of electronic procurement of computers, with request-response iterated B2B supply-chain management communications using RuleML as content of the contracting discovery/negotiation messages. In particular, the capabilities newly exploited include: SweetJess or SweetXSB to do inferencing in addition to the option of SweetCR inferencing, SweetOnto to incorporate/merge-in OWL-DLP ontologies, and effectors to launch real-world actions. We identify desirable additional aspects of query a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: RULEML
• Authors: Sumit Bhansali, Benjamin N. Grosof
• Keywords: E-business Application Scenario, Iterated B2b Supply-chain, RULEML 2005, SweetRules V2.1 Toolset