InfoSleuth: agent-based semantic integration of information in open and dynamic environments
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Resolving semantic heterogeneity in schema integration
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Semantic B2B integration: issues in ontology-based approaches
ACM SIGMOD Record
Ontology Management in Enterprises
BT Technology Journal
COOPIS '96 Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
An Ontology-Based Approach to eCatalogue Management
BT Technology Journal
An Ontology-Based Approach to eCatalogue Management
BT Technology Journal
Towards real-time business intelligence
BT Technology Journal
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eCommerce requires meaningful data exchange over a distributed network. A popular approach today typically requires a comprehensive integrated schema to which every data source or application has to map because end-to-end translation is too expensive in many situations. Apart from the difficulties in designing and extending the integrated schema, it tends to commoditise contents. This is why there are many competing standards.This paper proposes a novel framework to data exchange over a distributed network to support eCommerce. This framework allows new data sources to be added quickly and to be integrated with any other data on the fly according to the context of new business applications. To achieve this we consider how ontology-based techniques can be used to describe data source heterogeneities, and techniques to automatically reconcile mismatches and to transform data using incrementally and collectively created mapping rules. We show how this framework provides peer-to-peer message translations, thus enabling for example, the contents of a message of format A to be used to automatically fill a message of format B.