Title :
Shopbots: A Syntactic Present, A Semantic Future
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Essex Univ., Colchester
Abstract :
Despite high expectations, shopbots have yet to significantly facilitate a richer, more satisfying online shopping experience for users. By taking advantage of semantic Web and Web services technologies, however, researchers can overcome current technological limitations and finally realize the shopbot´s significant potential
Keywords :
Web services; electronic commerce; retail data processing; semantic Web; Shopbots; Web services; online shopping; semantic Web; Availability; Information retrieval; Monitoring; Navigation; Privacy; Search engines; Semantic Web; Warranties; Web and internet services; Web services; comparison shopping; shopbots; web services;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2006.134
