document: Semantic web support for the business-to-business e-commerce lifecycle If an e-services approach to electronic commerce is to become widespread , standardisation of ontologies , message content and message protocols will be necessary . In this paper , we present a lifecycle of a business-to-business e-commerce interaction , and show how the Semantic Web can support a service description language that can be used throughout this lifecycle . By using DAML , we develop a service description language sufficiently expressive and flexible to be used not only in advertisements , but also in matchmaking queries , negotiation proposals and agreements . We also identify which operations must be carried out on this description language if the B2B lifecycle is to be fully supported . We do not propose specific standard protocols , but instead argue that our operators are able to support a wide variety of interaction protocols , and so will be fundamental irrespective of which protocols are finally adopted .
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