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 ...

A DIRECTOR OF A UNIVERSITY LffiRARY has many problems. Besides financial problems, he must decide how to build collections, what resources in the collections can best serve faculty and students, what kind of bibliographical control must be provided, how to cope with the growth of collections and building problems that ensue, how to make more effective public services, how to provide instruction...

In this paper, a prototype of an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is presented. This new OPAC features new functionalities and utilizes web 2.0 technologies in order to deliver improved search and retrieval services. Some of these new services include social tag annotations, user opinions and ranks and tag-based similarity searches. The prototype is evaluated by a user group through question...

Application functionality in business-to-business marketplaces today covers a smaller range of a company's overall procurement activities. Not every product or service can be acquired using catalogs, auctions or tenders. With the growing number of market transactions to be supported electronically, we expect a range of applications that will handle other forms of transactions. We hold that to a...

abstract purpose: measures the rate of physical accessibility to printed book collection at a major iranian university library system. methodology: a list of 2972 titles cited in 97 theses completed in the last two years was checked against the online catalog of the university of isfahan (iran) to determine their availability, then search was carried out to find out how far titles with records ...

The GUSBAD catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is based on archival BATSE DISCLA data covering the full 9.1 years of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission. The catalog contains 2204 GRBs, including 589 bursts not listed in the Current Batse Burst Catalog. The GUSBAD catalog is uniform in the sense that the detection criteria are the same throughout and that the properties given in the catalo...