Collaboration role in semantic integration for electronic marketplace. (29th November 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guo, Jingzhi
• Is Part Of: International journal of electronic business. Volume 8:Number 6(2010)
• Page Start: 528
• Page End: 549
• Publication Date: 2010-11-29
• Subjects: electronic marketplace -- semantic integration -- semantic consistency maintenance -- concept exchange -- document exchange -- role-based systems -- service-oriented design -- e-marketplaces -- collaboration; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; 658.05467805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-6067

Abstract

Semantic integration is important in constructing electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces). Although many previous researches have been done, the task of semantic integration and the mechanism of maintaining semantic consistency are still not well known. This paper proposes a Collaboration-Role-Based Semantic Integration Mechanism (CRB-SIM). It promotes collaboration as a key means of resolving semantic conflicts in concepts creation and editing, via a set of service-oriented collaboration roles. This proposal has contributed to the semantic integration research a novel approach with the features of the role-based and service-oriented semantic consistency maintenance of heterogeneous concepts. The applicability of proposed mechanism is exemplified by two application prototypes.