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초록

Product information is a core component in an e-commerce application. Semantically enriched and precise product information may enhance the quality and effectiveness of business transactions. A recent approach is to employ the ontology to model the product information. A basis is to model a formal product ontology which can be also applicable in practice. In addition, it may be beneficial to transform or publish the product ontology in a standard ontology language. A most well-known ontology language is OWL. In this paper, we present how each modeling construct of product ontology can be translated in OWL language. We take into account of the expressiveness and complexity provided by OWL for the translation of each modeling construct, along with its practical usage in the domain.