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A semantic-based fully visual application for matchmaking and query refinement in B2C e-marketplaces

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Simona Colucci,

Tommaso Di Noia,

Eugenio Di Sciascio,

Francesco M. Donini,

Azzurra Ragone,

Raffaele RizziAuthors Info & Claims

ICEC '06: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet

Pages 174 - 184

https://doi.org/10.1145/1151454.1151489

Published: 13 August 2006 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a visual application in the framework of semantic-enabled e-marketplaces aimed at fully exploiting semantics of supply/demand descriptions in B2C and C2C e-marketplaces. Distinguishing aspects of the framework include logic-based explanation of request results, semantic ranking of matchmaking results, logic-based request refinement. The visual user interface has been designed and implemented to be immediate and simple, and it requires no knowledge of any logic principle to be fully used.

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ICEC '06: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet

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ISBN:1595933921

DOI:10.1145/1151454

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