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Integrating Semantic Web concepts into the domain of eBusiness is a hot topic. However, most of the efforts spent so far concentrated on the improvement on B2C (business-to-consumer) eCommerce applications, achieved by the semantic enrichment of information. With the growing importance of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) companies started to move into the section of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), where applications exchange their business information semiautomatically. This B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce is driven by aligning the internal business processes of companies to publicly available business processes. Thereby companies often do not consider the economic drivers of their business processes, which leads to incompatibilities between management, administration, and technical layers. This chapter covers the two major domains of eBusiness/eCommerce, namely B2B and B2C. In the first, a model-driven approach toward B2B IT solutions is introduced, covering semantic aspects dealing with business models, business process models, and business document models. In the second application domain, the basic concepts of Semantic Web in the area of B2C eCommerce are examined using a representative example from the eTourism domain.
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Grün, C. et al. (2011). eBusiness. In: Domingue, J., Fensel, D., Hendler, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92913-0_19
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