IEEE Internet Computing
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures
Bridging the semantic Web and Web 2.0 with Representational State Transfer (REST)
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web
EKAW '08 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns
LiveCompare: grocery bargain hunting through participatory sensing
Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Perspectives for Web Service Intermediaries: How Influence on Quality Makes the Difference
EC-Web 2009 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
Reconfigurable SCA Applications with the FraSCAti Platform
SCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
The role of ontologies in enabling dynamic interoperability
Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
Ubira: a mobile platform for an integrated online/offline shopping experience
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Will I Like It? Providing Product Overviews Based on Opinion Excerpts
CEC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 13th Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing
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Online shopping has reached an unforeseen success during the last decade thanks to the explosion of the Internet and the development of dedicated websites. Nonetheless, the wide diversity of e-commerce websites does not really foster the sales, but rather leaves the customer in the middle of dense jungle. In particular, finding the best offer for a specific product might require to spend hours browsing the Internet without being sure of finding the best deal in the end. While some websites are providing comparators to help the customer in finding the best offer meeting her/his requirements, the objectivity of these websites remains questionable, the comparison criteria are statically defined, while the nature of products they support is restricted to specific categories (e.g., electronic devices). In this paper, we introduce Macchiato as a user-centered platform leveraging online shopping. Macchiato implements the principles of the Internet-of-Things by adopting the REST architectural style and semantic web standards to navigate product databases exposed on the Internet. By doing so, customers keep the control of their shopping process by selecting the stores and comparing the offers according to their own preferences.