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Títol: An ontology - driven conceptual modeling of olive oil supply chain
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TAMAYO LÓPEZ, AILÍ ANDREA (data lectura: 17-07-2023)Tutor/Cotutor: RAHMANI, DJAMEL
Departament: DEAB
Títol: An ontology - driven conceptual modeling of olive oil supply chain
Data inici oferta: 07-02-2023 Data finalització oferta: 07-02-2023
Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
- GR ENG CIEN AGRONOM
GR ENG CIEN AGRONOM
Lloc de realització:
ERASMUS
Paraules clau:
Supply Chain, Ontologies, Agri-food, Olive oil, Production, Process
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The agri-food sector is one of the largest and most important
sectors of today's industrial
economy. Production and economic losses in the food market and
along the food production
chain are one of the main problems faced by this industry, mainly
due to poor coordination
among the different actors involved in a supply chain (SC).
In SC, a main obstacle to increasing efficiency is the lack of an
integrated flow of information
data between the different suppliers and buyers in the sector.
Partners in the agri-food sector
SC have different experiences and roles, resulting in language
asymmetry that affects overall
production performance due to information leakage in some parts
of the chain.
Communication is critical not only from person to person, but
also from person to machine or
from machine to machine. Industry 4.0 and IoT now permeate most
scenarios, from the field to
the fork, and the scene is also populated by ICT engineers who
use a very specialized language
and are involved in the development of analytics tools. These
kinds of tools (e.g., computational
models, life-cycle assessment) promise better performance that
increases productivity and
reduces losses, they introduce a different language.
For the reasons outlined, a common language needs to be defined,
and one of the solutions
studied in recent years to improve semantic communication is
represented by ontologies, which
identify and describe a specific vocabulary by domain, consisting
of annotated terms with a
specific definition and related to each other.
Ontologies help to link concepts and processes in the industry,
contributing to the understanding
and improvement of the complex system including markets and
supply chains. They already
represent a way to standardize communication in the agri-food
industry and have also been
studied in recent years.
This thesis begins with an introduction to a general analysis of
supply chains, together with the
relationship with value chains alongside their different
objectives. Then, a study of the structure
and functionality of ontologies based on the literature is
addressed with a description of
previous ontologies and the tools most useful for working with
them. Finally, an attempt is made
to create a new ontology for the field of olive oil SC, a
discussion is made about its potential
usefulness and final conclusions are drawn.
Overview (resum en anglès):
The agri-food sector is one of the largest and most important sectors of today's industrial economy. Production and economic losses in the food market and along the food production chain are one of the main problems faced by this industry, mainly due to poor coordination among the different actors involved in a supply chain (SC). One of the innovative solutions that is starting to be developed to improve loss of information between industrial processes amongst people to people, people to machinery and machinery to machinery are ontologies. Ontologies are dictionaries of vocabulary related to a specific domain that define each word, called class or entity, by adding attributes and relationships with other classes. This vocabulary not only is understandable for humans but also for machines enabling to create a wide network that can introduce data attached to each class and analyse dynamically a process chain.
This thesis begins with an introduction to a general analysis of supply chains, together with the relationship with value chains alongside their different objectives. Then, a study of the structure and functionality of ontologies based on the literature is addressed with a description of previous ontologies and the tools most useful for working with them. Finally, an attempt is made to create a new ontology for the field of olive oil SC.
Supply Chain, Ontologies, Agri-food, Olive oil, Production, Process
The agri-food sector is one of the largest and most important
sectors of today's industrial
economy. Production and economic losses in the food market and
along the food production
chain are one of the main problems faced by this industry, mainly
due to poor coordination
among the different actors involved in a supply chain (SC).
In SC, a main obstacle to increasing efficiency is the lack of an
integrated flow of information
data between the different suppliers and buyers in the sector.
Partners in the agri-food sector
SC have different experiences and roles, resulting in language
asymmetry that affects overall
production performance due to information leakage in some parts
of the chain.
Communication is critical not only from person to person, but
also from person to machine or
from machine to machine. Industry 4.0 and IoT now permeate most
scenarios, from the field to
the fork, and the scene is also populated by ICT engineers who
use a very specialized language
and are involved in the development of analytics tools. These
kinds of tools (e.g., computational
models, life-cycle assessment) promise better performance that
increases productivity and
reduces losses, they introduce a different language.
For the reasons outlined, a common language needs to be defined,
and one of the solutions
studied in recent years to improve semantic communication is
represented by ontologies, which
identify and describe a specific vocabulary by domain, consisting
of annotated terms with a
specific definition and related to each other.
Ontologies help to link concepts and processes in the industry,
contributing to the understanding
and improvement of the complex system including markets and
supply chains. They already
represent a way to standardize communication in the agri-food
industry and have also been
studied in recent years.
This thesis begins with an introduction to a general analysis of
supply chains, together with the
relationship with value chains alongside their different
objectives. Then, a study of the structure
and functionality of ontologies based on the literature is
addressed with a description of
previous ontologies and the tools most useful for working with
them. Finally, an attempt is made
to create a new ontology for the field of olive oil SC, a
discussion is made about its potential
usefulness and final conclusions are drawn.
This thesis begins with an introduction to a general analysis of supply chains, together with the relationship with value chains alongside their different objectives. Then, a study of the structure and functionality of ontologies based on the literature is addressed with a description of previous ontologies and the tools most useful for working with them. Finally, an attempt is made to create a new ontology for the field of olive oil SC.