2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04)
Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Electronic Product Catalogues for Semantic Interoperation
San Diego, California
July 06-July 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2098-7
A very important issue in constructing global electronic markets is to enable semantic interoperation between fragmented electronic markets by constructing an interoperable electronic product catalogue (EPC) for product data exchange. Nevertheless, the heterogeneous EPCs are highly complex, which causes the severe semantic inconsistency that prevents from semantic interoperation between them. To reduce complexity and to provide a solution to semantic consistency maintenance, this paper has developed a theory of deconstruction and reconstruction. The theory deconstructs heterogeneous EPCs into ordered concepts, structures and semantic relations by a proposed articulation approach. It reconstructs the deconstructed units into a novel CONEX framework for component EPC integration. The CONEX maintains semantic consistency amongst heterogeneous component EPCs in structure, concept and context.
Citation:
Jingzhi Guo, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen, "Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Electronic Product Catalogues for Semantic Interoperation," cec, pp.333-336, 2004 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04), 2004