Evolving a "Wise" integration system for e-commerce transactions

  • Authors:
  • Chima Adiele;Sylvanus A. Ehikioya

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge AB, Canada T1K 3M4;Nigerian Communications Commission, Plot 72, Ahmadu Bello Way, Abuja, Nigeria

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Web facilitates a global marketplace that provides an economic platform for application developers, merchants and customers to exchange goods and services from a wide range of domains. As a result, large volume of data now resides on the Web. Access to data distributed over the Web is becoming increasingly difficult because of information overload. A system that transcends the amalgamation of data, and provides easy access to data distributed over the Web is necessary. We present WISE, a correctness preserving approach to integration of Web data sources. We describe components of WISE, including a flexible semistructured data model, a common-term vocabulary, and an efficient integration algorithm that automates the integration process. We formally specify these components and show that the global integrated schema is correct, complete, minimal, and understandable.