e-Commerce Ontology Web (e-COW)

The objective of "e-Commerce Ontology Web" (e-COW) is to implement the
ontology concept and semantic web in knowledge management to improve business
operation in organization. Generally, current problem of e-commerce system is
searching information is very difficult and sometimes may miss relevant information
especially details for certain products. Furthermore, human browsing and reading
required to extract relevant information from information sources. The semantic web
deals with important application areas such as knowledge management and
electronic commerce (both B2C and B2B). It may help to overcome many of the
current bottlenecks in these areas. In feasibility study, it helps author in identifying
the framework of semantic web and ontology development process. The important
feature ofthe e-COW is retrieving information based on the class and attributes of
data intree views, and advance search using ontology agents. Inaddition the system
will display products details in meaningful and organized which can help users to
understand easily. With development of many knowledge management systems
today, it shows that the knowledge management is very important especially to
organization. As a result, we know ontology has become important concept in
knowledge management especially for managing and organizing information and
data.