Ontologies and Electronic Commerce

• Main Authors: FENSEL, Dieter, MCGUINNESS, Deborah L., SCHULTEN, Ellen, NG, Wee-Keong, LIM, Ee Peng, YAN, Guanghao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; E-Commerce
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/115; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1114/viewcontent/Ontologies_and_Electronic_Commerce.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ontologies are the first step toward realizing the full power of online e-commerce. Ontologies enable machine-understandable semantics of data, and building this data infrastructure will enable completely new kinds of automated services. Software agents can search for products, form buyer and seller...