Enabling Global Price Comparison through Semantic Integration of Web Data (2008)
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@MISC{Zhu08enablingglobal,
author = {Hongwei Zhu and Stuart E. Madnick and Michael D. Siegel and Hongwei Zhu and Stuart E. Madnick and Michael D. Siegel},
title = {Enabling Global Price Comparison through Semantic Integration of Web Data},
year = {2008}
}
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Abstract
Abstract: “Sell Globally ” and “Shop Globally ” have been seen as a potential benefit of web-enabled electronic business. One important step toward realizing this benefit is to know how things are selling in various parts of the world. A global price comparison service would address this need. But there have not been many such services. In this paper, we use a case study of global price dispersion to illustrate the need and the value of a global price comparison service. Then we identify and discuss several technology challenges, including semantic heterogeneity, in providing a global price comparison service. We propose a mediation architecture to address the semantic heterogeneity problem, and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture by implementing a prototype that enables global price comparison using data from
