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1.
First progresses are already accomplished with Ontology issues in tourism (i.e. in (RMSIG, 2006), HARMONISE
(Werthner, 2001)).
2.
ECOLEAD provides frameworks, reference models, guidelines … for settling issues, how Collaborative Networks agree on
common Business Strategies, Business Models, and Business Processes.
3.
SMTEs are enabled to implement Tourism and Collaborative Ontology with the help of RDF/OWL enhancing their web
sites and therefore are accessible to Collaborative Agents.
4.
Collaborative Agents are implemented by service providers, who intend to create a Collaborative Network organizing mega
events.
5.
Negotiation vocabulary and behaviour of Collaborative Agents according to (FIPA, 2006) may not take into account
SMTEs. It’s up to the service providers to implement the Collaborative Agent. Therefore knowledge and responsibility of
Agent implementation are transferred from the bulk of involved organizations, to the service providers.
*About the authors: Dr. Josef Withalm & Dipl.-Ing. Walter Wölfel are both with Siemens IT Solutions and Services PSE,
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