Internet electronic product catalogs: an approach beyond simple keywords and multimedia

Stanoevska‐Slabeva, Katarina; Schmid, Beat

doi:10.1016/s1389-1286(00)00025-6

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“…a common product description frame, which is a formal language for description and classification of objects). Similar to the above two examples, Stanoevska-Slabeva and Schmid (2000) favoured the use of mediating ontologies to integrate the external heterogeneous EPCs.…”

Section: Automated Mediation Approachmentioning

confidence: 82%

Collaborative conceptualisation: towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design

Guo

2009

Enterprise Information Systems

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To cite this article: Jingzhi Guo (2009) Collaborative conceptualisation: towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design, Enterprise Information Systems, 3:1, 59-94,The maintenance of semantic consistency between numerous heterogeneous electronic product catalogues (EPC) that are distributed, autonomous, interdependent and emergent on the Internet is an unsolved issue for the existing heterogeneous EPC integration approaches. This article attempts to solve this issue by conceptually designing an interoperable EPC (IEPC) system through a proposed novel collaborative conceptualisation approach. This approach introduces collaboration into the heterogeneous EPC integration. It implies much potential for future e-marketplace research. It theoretically answers why real-world EPCs are so complex, how these complex EPCs can be explained and articulated in a PRODUCT MAP theory for heterogeneous EPC integration, how a semantic consistency maintenance model can be created to satisfy the three heterogeneous EPC integration conditions and implemented by adopting a collaborative integration strategy on a collaborative concept exchange model, and how this collaborative integration strategy can be realised on a collaboration mechanism. This approach has been validated through a theoretical justification and its applicability has been demonstrated in two prototypical e-business applications.

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Section: Automated Mediation Approachmentioning

confidence: 82%

Collaborative conceptualisation: towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design

Guo

2009

Enterprise Information Systems

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“…This approach cannot prevent the interoperability problem between multiple ontologies. MEPCs [19] and Internet EPC [31], on the other hand, provide a global shared vocabulary by statically mapping product terms through one or more mediators. By this approach, all enterprises can interoperate with each other if they stick to and have no misunderstandings about the shared ontology.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context representation, transformation and comparison for ad hoc product data exchange

Guo

Sun

2003

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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Product data exchange is the precondition of business interoperation between Web-based firms. However, millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) encode their Web product data in ad hoc formats for electronic product catalogues. This prevents product data exchange between business partners for business interoperation. To solve this problem, this paper has proposed a novel concept-centric catalogue engineering approach for representing, transforming and comparing semantic contexts in ad hoc product data exchange. In this approach, concepts and contexts of product data are specified along data exchange chain and are mapped onto several novel XML product map (XPM) documents by utilizing XML hierarchical structure and its syntax. The designed XPM has overcome the semantic limitations of XML markup and has achieved the semantic interoperation for ad hoc product data exchange.

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“…Some of the benefits include improvements in operational efficiency and revenue generation by integrating e-commerce into their value chain activities [5], access to wider range of markets [4,12,13,32], greater potential for partnership with suppliers and vendors [18,38], improved customer services [2,6,38], 24 * 7 accessibility [10,23], flexibility in administration and partnership [4], information update [3,33,38], lower transaction costs [2,7,25,38], product/service differentiation [4,6,19], ability to enter supply chain of larger companies [11,19], so on and so forth. Though adoption of EC provides various benefits as mentioned above and also, it has been widely acknowledged that the adoption of EC by businesses in developing countries is an important economic indicator of growth [26,40], many firms in the developing countries like India, China or South Africa still have not realized the potential benefits of EC.…”

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A review of e-commerce literature on India and research agenda for the future

Vaithianathan

2010

Electron Commer Res

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Firms across the globe have adopted e-commerce (EC) in their operations and have reaped benefits thereof. While firms in technologically developed countries like US and UK has deployed EC to its advantage, whereas firms in developing countries like India failed to follow the suit. Though it has been widely acknowledged by the researchers that the adoption of EC by businesses in developing countries is an important economic indicator of growth; many firms in India still have not realized the potential benefits of EC. This study examines the existing status of EC in India and reviews the available literature on E-commerce adoption in India and puts forth opportunities for future research. The study might serve as a starting point for further research in e-commerce in India.

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Internet electronic product catalogs: an approach beyond simple keywords and multimedia

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Collaborative conceptualisation: towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design

Collaborative conceptualisation: towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design

Context representation, transformation and comparison for ad hoc product data exchange

A review of e-commerce literature on India and research agenda for the future

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