A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
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IEEE Intelligent Systems
A Tool for Integrating Conceptual Schemas and User Views
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Multi-User View Integration System (MUVIS): An Expert System for View Integration
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Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks
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Heterogeneous product description in electronic commerce
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IEEE Intelligent Systems
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Building and querying e-catalog networks using P2P and data summarisation techniques
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Prodlight: a lightweight ontology for product description based on datatype properties
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EC-Web'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
A pragmatic approach to model and exploit the semantics of product information
Journal on Data Semantics VII
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In any electronic commerce system, the heterogeneity of product descriptions is a critical impediment to efficient business information exchange. In the ABECOS electronic commerce system, buyer agents, seller agents, and directory agents liaise with one another in e-commerce activities. Only when agents have a common ontology of product descriptions (also called product schemas) are they able to interact seamlessly in e-commerce activities. This gives rise to the Product Schema Integration problem (PSI); the problem of integrating heterogeneous schemas of a certain product into one globally compatible schema. In this paper, we adopt an integration approach based on product attribute synonyms. We give a formal definition of the problem and show that it is NP-complete. We contrast our approach of study to conventional schema integration in federated databases. We also propose a set of approximate algorithms for PSI and evaluate their performance.