Using Ontology for Electronic Commerce System

Abstract

Nowadays, information system has been developed and played key role in live of human beings. By applying the developme nt of information system, user can search the desired information from the inter net . However, user cannot get this informat ion certainly f rom the internet because it can have ambiguous . Ontologies play a crucial role on the construction of the Semantic Web, because they provide a shared conceptualization of the knowledge and services available on the web in a machine-readable way, allowing the information sharing between heterogeneous systems. T his system provides the problem of semantic interoperability among heterogeneous XML sources of the same real world domain and making these sou rces available for qu erying will be concentrated. An ontology defines the terms used to describe and represent an area of knowle dge Due to the building of semantic of the ontology in this system, customer can retrieve the information they want from the di fferent terms by using OWL ontology . This system solves queries to support e commerce transaction that involve retrieving and integrating information from multiple information resources. This system use OWL to build the Ontology.