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Modeling Autonomous Catalog for Electronic Commerce

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Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004 (ER 2004)

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The catalog function is an essential feature in B2C and B2B e-commerce. While catalog is primarily for end users to navigate and search for interested products, other e-commerce functions such as merchandising, order, inventory and aftermarket constantly refer to information stored in the catalog  [1]. The billion-dollar mail order business was created around catalog long before e-commerce. More opportunities surface after catalog content previously created on paper is digitized. While catalog is recognized as a necessity for a successful web store, its content structure varies greatly across industries and also within each industry. Product categories, attributes, measurements, languages, and currency all contribute to the wide variations, which create a difficult dilemma for catalog designers.

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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA

    Yuan-Chi Chang, Vamsavardhana R. Chillakuru & Min Wang

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  1. Informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Via Vasca Navale 79, 00146, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Atzeni

  2. Computer Science Department, University of California, 3731 Boelter Hall, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Wesley Chu

  3. Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Hongjun Lu

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 200433, China

    Shuigeng Zhou

  5. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Tok-Wang Ling

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Chang, YC., Chillakuru, V.R., Wang, M. (2004). Modeling Autonomous Catalog for Electronic Commerce. In: Atzeni, P., Chu, W., Lu, H., Zhou, S., Ling, TW. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2004. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_62

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