Matching heterogeneous e-catalogues in B2B marketplaces using vector space model

Mehrbod, Ahmad; Zutshi, Aneesh; Grilo, António; Jardim-Goncalves, Ricardo

doi:10.1080/0951192x.2015.1107915

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“…• Large volumes of information: With increases in enterprise production capacity and the expansion of sale reach, there are more and more companies involved in e-commerce, offering many kinds of products and services. The amount of commercial information has thus increased sharply [42].…”

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“…Examples of each type are traditional relational database, multimedia information, and document and HTML information, respectively. • Semantically heterogeneous information: There is heterogeneity in managing similar types of information for different suppliers [42]. When two suppliers sell the same or similar products, different properties may be used to describe the stored information.…”

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An E-Commerce Platform for Industrialized Construction Procurement Based on BIM and Linked Data

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Industrialized construction has raised the requirements of procurement methods used in the construction industry. The rapid development of e-commerce offers efficient and effective solutions, however the large number of participants in the construction industry means that the data involved are complex, and problems arise related to volume, heterogeneity, and fragmentation. Thus, the sector lags behind others in the adoption of e-commerce. In particular, data integration has become a barrier preventing further development. Traditional e-commerce platform, which considered data integration for common product data, cannot meet the requirements of construction product data integration. This study aimed to build an information-integrated e-commerce platform for industrialized construction procurement (ICP) to overcome some of the shortcomings existing platforms. We proposed a platform based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) and linked data, taking an innovative approach to data integration. It uses industrialized construction technology to support product standardization, BIM to support procurement process, and linked data to connect different data sources. The platform was validated using a case study. With the development of an e-commerce ontology, industrialized construction component information was extracted from BIM models and converted to Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. Related information from different data sources was also converted to RDF format, and Simple Protocol and Resource Description Framework Query Language (SPARQL) queries were implemented. The platform provides a solution for the development of e-commerce platform in the construction industry.

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“…In an e-procurement e-marketplace at least two main scenarios for finding similar products are possible (Mehrbod et al, 2015). First, a buyer who makes a call for tender needs to select some suppliers based on their product catalogues to send the invitation.…”

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“…The second scenario that is considered in this paper occurs when a supplier searches to find business opportunities in an e-procurement marketplace (Mehrbod et al, 2015). In this process, the suppliers search in the tenders that are published publicly using the RFP or RFT procedures.…”

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“…Moreover, it requires knowledge about the target systems that causes the failure of the system encountering new resources. To cope with this problem, in a recent industrial project with a G2B2B procurement platform called Vortal, a semantic e-catalogue search approach has been developed (Mehrbod et al, 2015) which is not dependent on integrating underlying data to a uniform data model. The approach measures the similarity ratio of suppliers' ecatalogues with a buyer's e-catalogue and uses domain ontologies to expand the matching mechanism with semantic relationships of data attributes.…”

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Application of a semantic product matching mechanism in open tendering e-marketplaces

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Grilo³

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Purpose Searching the tender notices that publish every day in open tendering websites is a common way for finding business opportunity in public procurement. The heterogeneity of tender notices from various tendering marketplaces is a challenge for exploiting semantic technologies in the tender search. Design/methodology/approach Most of the semantic matching approaches require the data to be structured and integrated according to a data model. But the integration process can be expensive and time-consuming especially for multi-source data integration. Findings In this paper, a product search mechanism that had been developed in an e-procurement platform for matching product e-catalogues is applied to the tender search problem. The search performance has been compared using two procurement vocabularies on searching tender notices from two major tender resources. Originality/value The test results show that the matching mechanism is able to find tender notices from heterogeneous resources and different classification systems without transforming the tenders to a uniform data model.

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Evaluation of an E-catalogue Matching Mechanism in Public Procurement Notice Search

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Zutshi²,

Grilo³

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Matching heterogeneous e-catalogues in B2B marketplaces using vector space model

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

An E-Commerce Platform for Industrialized Construction Procurement Based on BIM and Linked Data

An E-Commerce Platform for Industrialized Construction Procurement Based on BIM and Linked Data

Application of a semantic product matching mechanism in open tendering e-marketplaces

Evaluation of an E-catalogue Matching Mechanism in Public Procurement Notice Search

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