Semantic B2B integration: issues in ontology-based approaches
ACM SIGMOD Record
Understanding semantic relationships
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Product Schema Integration for Electronic Commerce-A Synonym Comparison Approach
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Product Data Integration in B2B E-Commerce
IEEE Intelligent Systems
A Modeling Approach for Product Classification Systems
DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Catalog Integration for Electronic Commerce through Category-Hierarchy Merging Technique
RIDE '02 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE'02)
Ontological Modeling of e-Catalogs using EER and Description Logics
DEEC '05 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce
Practical Issues for Building a Product Ontology System
DEEC '05 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce
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Ontology concerns with the nature and relations of being. Electronic catalog contains rich semantics associated with products, and serves as a challenging practical domain for ontology application. It is beneficial to model e-Catalogs based not only on the definition of each product class and the taxonomic hierarchy of classes but also on the associated semantic knowledge. Ontology can play an important role in e-Commerce as a formalization of e-Catalogs. However, an ontological modeling should not be technically too complicated to represent and comprehend the e-Catalog domain for a domain expert who has little knowledge in the formal language. In this paper, we present an ontological representation of e-Catalogs, which is both conceptual and formal. We take an Extended Entity Relationship approach to denote the fundamental set of modeling constructs, and present corresponding description logic representation for each construct. We also consider the modeling language to be reasonably practical with regard to its expressiveness and complexity. We illustrate sample e-Catalog modeling scenarios to demonstrate the practical feasibility of our modeling approach.