COMMUNITY DRIVEN REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS: Applying Semantics to Match Customer Purchase Intents to Vendor Offers

Christophe Debruyne, Davor Meersman, Rami Hansenne, Mathias Baert

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a platform for requests for proposals and describes how ontologies drive the different com- ponents: the creation of a proposal, the annotation of vendor data, the transformation of vendor data into other formats and the semantic matching of a proposal against annotated vendor data. The ontology construction started from DOGMA, a methodology with its grounding in the linguistic representation of knowledge that is suitable for community participation in the creation process. The ontologies were created in a modular way, with general product and meta-models that can be extended depending on the domain. In the case of the pilot, the product were holiday packages, more precisely winter sports holiday packages.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
    EditorsJosé Cordeiro, Joaquim Filipe
    PublisherScitepress
    Pages525-530
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)978-989-8425-51-5
    Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2011

    Bibliographical note

    José Cordeiro and Joaquim Filipe

    Keywords

    • COMDRIVE
    • Ontology Engineering
    • RFP
    • Products
    • Offers
    • Matching

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