Given a set of products, where each is characterized by a set of attribute values, an online catalog is an organization of a set of product pages on the web through which users can access their required product information. A good online catalog is crucial to the success of an e-commerce web site. Traditionally, an online catalog is mainly built by hand. To what extent this can be automated is ...

In B2B relationships electronic product catalogs and the respective catalog data gain an important meaning as the starting point for procurement decisions. Suppliers have to provide catalog data for their customers and market places in standardized XML formats and defined quality. Contrary to B2C, catalog usage in B2B is characterized by the fact that data of the catalog-creating enterprise is ...

This paper presents data obtained during the NICMOS Guaranteed Time Observations of a portion of the Hubble Deep Field. The data are in a catalog format similar to the publication of the original WFPC2 Hubble Deep Field Program (Williams et al. 1996). The catalog contains 342 objects in a 49.1 × 48.4 subfield of the total observed field, 235 of which are considered coincident with objects in th...

The exponential growth of the Internet and the increasing communication and computational power have created many opportunities for advancing engineering, manufacturing and business activities. Active Catalog brings a conceptually new idea to design and electronic commerce by providing new forms of catalog information about engineering parts and physical objects. Active Catalog is designed for ...