| dc.contributor.author |
Zhu, Hongwei |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Siegel, Michael |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Madnick, Stuart |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2008-01-11T18:04:18Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2008-01-11T18:04:18Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2008-01-11T18:04:18Z |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40084 |
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| dc.description.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
web sources in several countries. |
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| dc.language.iso |
en_US |
en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper |
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| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
4673-07 |
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| dc.subject |
Global Price Comparison |
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| dc.subject |
Shopbots |
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| dc.subject |
Context |
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| dc.subject |
Semantic Data Integration |
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| dc.subject |
Semantic Heterogeneity |
en |
| dc.title |
Enabling Global Price Comparison through Semantic Integration of Web Data |
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| dc.type |
Working Paper |
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