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Explanation Services and Request Refinement in User Friendly Semantic-Enabled B2C E-Marketplaces

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Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2006)

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This paper presents an approach aimed at fully exploiting semantics of supply/demand descriptions in B2C and C2C e-marketplaces. Distinguishing aspects include logic-based explanation of request results, semantic ranking of matchmaking results, logic-based request refinement. The 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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Colucci, S., Di Noia, T., Di Sciascio, E., Donini, F.M., Ragone, A., Rizzi, R. (2006). Explanation Services and Request Refinement in User Friendly Semantic-Enabled B2C E-Marketplaces. In: Lee, J., Shim, J., Lee, Sg., Bussler, C., Shim, S. (eds) Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services. DEECS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780397_2

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