Intelligent business knowledge management using topic maps

ABSTRACT

We present a method, complete with case study, for capturing and managing the information stored in business transactions based on the widely used UBL. Where conventional wisdom would use a RDBMS-based approach, we use Topic Maps as the knowledge representation format and show how by effectively leveraging its features we can efficiently navigate, discover and retrieve content in ways not possible with the conventional approach.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications
          Subjects: Methodologies (e.g., object-oriented, structured)

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
UBL, business documents, business intelligence, case study, information retrieval, knowledge representation, querying, topic maps, translator