CIGMA: Active Inventory Service in Global E-Market Based on Efficient Catalog Management

Su Myeon KIM
Seungwoo KANG
Heung-Kyu LEE
Junehwa SONG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E88-D    No.12    pp.2651-2663
Publication Date: 2005/12/01
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DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.12.2651
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Section on Autonomous Decentralized Systems)
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Keyword: 
electronic commerce,  information aggregation,  heterogeneous information,  dynamic content,  intelligent cache,  

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Summary: 
A fully Internet-connected business environment is subject to frequent changes. To ordinary customers, online shopping under such a dynamic environment can be frustrating. We propose a new E-commerce service called the CIGMA to assist online customers under such an environment. The CIGMA provides catalog comparison and purchase mediation services over multiple shopping sites for ordinary online customers. The service is based on up-to-date information by reflecting the frequent changes in catalog information instantaneously. It also matches the desire of online customers for fast response. This paper describes the CIGMA along with its architecture and the implementation of a working prototype.

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