Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2002
Abstract
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. 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
Keywords
Electronic commerce, product description, relational schema, schema integration
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | E-Commerce | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Volume
14
Issue
3
First Page
583
Last Page
598
ISSN
1041-4347
Identifier
10.1109/TKDE.2002.1000344
Publisher
IEEE
Citation
YAN, Guanghao; NG, Wee-Keong; and LIM, Ee Peng.
Product Schema Integration for Electronic Commerce: A synonym comparison approach. (2002). IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 14, (3), 583-598.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/122
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2002.1000344
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