OWL-based Enriched EbXML For Tourism E-Commerce

Tourism is an integration of eating, living, going, traveling, buying and amusing, it involves many travel establishments and travel resources. Therefore, realizing a tour e-Commerce platform and making integration of tour e-Commerce information are keys for travel information share and enhancing travel service quality.Therefore, we realize OWL-based Enriched ebXML for Tourism e-Commerce platform. Using ebXML technical architecture can integrate many travel service systems, which are used now to a tourism e-Commerce platform. Then users can invoke web service from this platform. So integration of tourism e-Commerce information is finished. In addition, by using the method that can represent OWL semantic constructs through ebXML Registry constructs, travel ontology can be built and mapped into ebXML registry. As a result, the semantic information can be stored in ebXML registry now. Then new ebXML predefined procedure will be appended for handling semantic information in ebXML registry. Because some predefined procedures made by Asuman. Dogac have problems for realizing the semantic query function, these predefined procedures are modified by using graph width-first search algorithm. Finally, a semantically enriched travel's ebXML registry scheme is finished.Based on the work done, ebXML tourism e-Commerce platform is built. Using our platform, service providers can publish particular travel services and users can quickly find valid travel services or travel composition services by semantic query function. In conclusion, the platform realizes radically the optimization of travel resources, increases the veracity of information query, and accelerates the development of the whole travel industry.