Developing an Electronic Clearinghouse for Efficient and Unified Government and Corporate Online Procurement using Ontology-based Technologies

Funding: 2006: $53,000
2007: $53,000
2008: $52,000

Project Member(s): Hawryszkiewycz, I.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
The Lido Group (The Lido Group Partner funds)

Start year: 2006

Summary: The development of electronic clearinghouses has long promised great cost savings and efficiencies for government and corporate procurement, but these exchanges have often failed, due to a lack of interoperability and common information framework. Government and corporate procurement of accommodation currently incurs large inefficiencies from unmatched need and under-utilized inventory. This project will develop novel ontology-based technologies and methodologies and an ontology-based clearinghouse architecture to overcome this obstacle to clearinghouses. A prototype clearinghouse, in the accommodation services domain, will be developed and tested against real-world commercial requirements identified by the industry partner.

Keywords: electronic clearinghouse, information systems,

FOR Codes: Interorganisational Information Systems, Data Storage Representations, Application packages, Wholesale, Retail trade, Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services, Data Format not elsewhere classified, Wholesale and Retail Trade, Service oriented computing, Inter-organisational, extra-organisational and global information systems

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