Collaborative Concept Exchange
Guo, Jingzhi
Existing e-marketplaces are fragmented in the sense that each is an information island. The interoperation of product information between them is difficult especially in semantic level. This hinders global e-marketplace formation and distribution cost lowering. The traditional approaches of product standardization and ontology mediation could solve the problem only if all e-marketplaces could adopt the same product standards, or mediation syst...