Ontological model for knowledge capitalization in multimodal transport domain

Abstract

The significant evolutions in the economic and business environment has undergone profound changes and see grow criticality control information for controlling the global supply chain. In this environment, more and more complex, especially because of globalization and the globalization of economies, contributing directly to increased trade and the expansion of the geographical area, the optimization of the cooperation within the global supply chain becomes more focused on optimizing physical movement of goods. Thus, the integration of transport in optimizing supply chains offers an opportunity to better management of flows, different decision-making levels. For recent decades, modeling agent database was used as an unconventional tool to perform this task. However, the establishment of a formal ontology as a shared model, to ensure interoperability and reusability of the models with which developers can standardize their models become increasingly necessary. We present in this paper an initiative to develop an ontology that formalizes the domain knowledge of the multimodal transport of goods.