Graph-theoretic method for merging security system specifications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A semantic query approach to personalized e-catalogs service system
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
An iterative approach for web catalog integration with support vector machines
AIRS'05 Proceedings of the Second Asia conference on Asia Information Retrieval Technology
Learning to integrate web catalogs with conceptual relationships in hierarchical thesaurus
AIRS'06 Proceedings of the Third Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Querying tree-structured data using dimension graphs
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Conceptual and formal ontology model of e-catalogs
EC-Web'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
Semantic integration of tree-structured data using dimension graphs
Journal on Data Semantics IV
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Internet marketplaces are now faced with new challenges that arise from the need to seamlessly integrate enormous number of product catalogs from different sources. In order to help users find products efficiently, Internet shops provide hierarchies of product catalogs (called category hierarchies). However, the absence of robust models (and well understood semantics) for product catalogs and their hierarchies severely impairs our ability to systematically support structured operations. In this paper, we present an extended catalog model whose purpose is to provide a universal product catalog repository with browsing, searching, and downloading capabilities in order to facilitate catalog sharing and interoperability. In addition, we present a model for category hierarchies with well defined semantics which allows flexible representation of product hierarchies as well as automatic merging of different category hierarchies as a special case of catalog integration.