Enabling goods traceability through data modeling and semantic web service ontologies

Abstract

In a context of globalization and internationalization of markets, optimizing physical movement of goods becomes inescapable. To do this, in this paper, we present our contribution to the implementation of a global system of goods traceability in a multimodal transport context. Thus, we propose a new approach for modeling the data needed to cover the entire goods lifecycle. Then, for the sake of integration of our traceability solution, an integration approach according to a service oriented architecture will be presented, and this by presenting a new ontology for semantic description of web services, dedicated to our traceability solution.