Informative Query Answering by Using RDQL for E-Commerce

Information Retrieval Related Pape

Intelligent Web User Interfaces

This paper investigates the key components of an intelligent web user interface to facilitate online investment as a novel approach to compensating for the impersonality of e-commerce. By analyzing challenges to online brokerage services and evaluating key criteria for a viable intelligence system, we develop a decision tree based intelligent web user interfaces model. The resulting intelligent model is intended to help online shoppers avoid common mistakes by means of implicit reasoning, flexible knowledge granularity, and effective reasoning-by-exception, which is significantly different from the traditional approaches that largely rely on assistance from remote control knowledge engines. One of the key contributions of the intelligent web user interfaces model introduced in this paper is that it provides a heuristic guidance behind the scene for both online shoppers and online stores without extra structural constraints or financial burdens

An Information Integration Framework Based on XML to Support Mechatronics Multi-disciplinary Design

Abstract-To implement the information integration of multidisciplinary applications, an information integration framework of mechatronics system multi-disciplinary design is developed. This developed integration framework adopts a XML Web service based architecture which facilitates the seamless information integration in Internet environments. MSCIM (Mechatronics System Common Information Model) is defined as well as the standard data access interfaces are specified. MSCIM includes all the major objects and the relationships of objects in the process of mechatronics systems design. As a neutral and Web-friendly industry standard, the XML Schema is used as the formal definition language of the MSCIM. DAF (Data access facility) is adopted as the standard data access interface and the accurate definition is given via WSDL. Standard data access interfaces are implemented through SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) over HTTP which provides the multi-disciplinary design application with a generic way to exchange information and access public data. Furthermore, this information integration framework provides the multi-disciplinary engineers with an integrated logical view of mechatronics systems and realizes cooperation of multi-disciplinary teams which shortens the development cycle and saves the cost at the same time in mechatronics multi-disciplinary design

Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access

This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA)

Implementation E-commerce application using Lotus Domino

E-commerce technologies enable enterprises to exchange information instantaneously, eliminate paperwork, and advertise their products and services to a global market. The Domino Server family, an integrated messaging and Web application software platform, is easy to build and manage integrated, collaborative solutions. In this project, I build a basic functional Domino-powered e-commerce application named E-Bookstore. The EBookstore web site contains three main components of an e-commerce web site (catalog of items, shopping cart, and checkout function), and provides a powerful search function to the customer. The unique session ID for each E-Bookstore web user is generated and stored, and is attached to every item a user adds to his shopping cart. This application also provides the back end maintenance functions such as add book category or book entry. Comparing to popular commercial software, the functions provided in E-Bookstore cover most of useful tools. The E-Bookstore, built on the Domino Application Server R5 platform, has a performance that scales appropriately as the amount of data set increasing and the whole system environment is security

Use and Analysis of Expected Similarity of Semantic Web Ontological Annotations

This dissertation studied various means of calculating similarity in the annotations of web pages compared to the similarity of the document text. A software tool, named Semantic Web Analysis of Similarity (SW AS), was developed and utilized to perform the analysis of similarity in annotated documents published from the first three years of the International Semantic Web Conference. Rules concerning the ontological concepts of the documents were specified and these rules as well as other parameters were varied to determine the effect on overall similarity measures. Traditional measures of similarity as well as enhanced measures of similarity proposed for this study were evaluated. A proposal was made concerning use of similarity measures to evaluate the consistency of semantic annotation for documents published through a Semantic Web portal

An Information Integration Framework for e-commerce

Electronic commerce lets people purchase goods and exchange information on business transactions on-line. Therefore one of the main challenges for the designers of the e-commerce infrastructures is the information sharing, retrieving data located in different sources thus obtaining an integrated view to overcome any contradiction or redundancy. Virtual Catalogs synthesize this approach as they are conceived as instruments to dynamically retrieve information from multiple catalogs and present product data in a unified manner, without directly storing product data from catalogs. In this paper we propose SI-Designer, a support tool for the integration of data from structured and semi-structured data sources, developed within th

An information integration framework for E-commerce

The Web has transformed electronic information systems from single, isolated nodes into a worldwide network of information exchange and business transactions. In this context, companies have equipped themselves with high-capacity storage systems that contain data in several formats. The problems faced by these companies often emerge because the storage systems lack structural and application homogeneity in addition to a common ontology.The semantic differences generated by a lack of consistent ontology can lead to conflicts that range from simple name contradictions (when companies use different names to indicate the same data concept) to structural incompatibilities (when companies use different models to represent the same information types).One of the main challenges for e-commerce infrastructure designers is information sharing and retrieving data from different sources to obtain an integrated view that can overcome any contradictions or redundancies. Virtual catalogs can help overcome this challenge because they act as instruments to retrieve information dynamically from multiple catalogs and present unified product data to customers. Instead of having to interact with multiple heterogeneous catalogs, customers can instead interact with a virtual catalog in a straightforward, uniform manner.This article presents a virtual catalog project called Momis (mediator environment for multiple information sources). Momis is a mediator-based system for information extraction and integration that works with structured and semistructured data sources. Momis includes a component called the SI-Designer for semiautomatically integrating the schemas of heterogeneous data sources, such as relational, object, XML, or semistructured sources. Starting from local source descriptions, the Global Schema Builder generates an integrated view of all data sources and expresses those views using XML. Momis lets you use the infrastructure with other open integration information systems by simply interchanging XML data files.Momis creates XML global schema using different stages, first by creating a common thesaurus of intra and interschema relationships. Momis extracts the intraschema relationships by using inference techniques, then shares these relationships in the common thesaurus. After this initial phase, Momis enriches the common thesaurus with interschema relationships obtained using the lexical WordNet system (www.cogsci.princeton.edu/wn), which identifies the affinities between interschema concepts on the basis of their lexicon meaning. Momis also enriches the common thesaurus using the Artemis system, which evaluates structural affinities among interschema concepts

An Information Integration Framework for E-Commerce

One of the main challenges of e-commerce infrastructure designers is to retrieve data from different sources..