Ontology Alignment in RFID Privacy Protection

RFID technology has been widely spread. Many business players and consumers will take advantage of RFID system. On the other hand, it is important to protect the RFID user's privacy information. RFID stakeholders have published the privacy protection guidelines to control to obtain, use and manage the privacy information for RFID system. In this article, we analyze four guidelines which are published by four various RFID stakeholders. As a result of our analysis, we propose RFID privacy protection ontology. This ontology consists of goal ontology, function ontology and technology ontology. This article shows features of each ontology and relationship among them, and also discusses the stepwise ontology alignment to design method of RFID system.