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doi:10.1016/S0950-5849(03)00028-4 
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An affiliated search system for an electronic commerce and software component architecture
Received 27 October 2002;
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Abstract
This paper describes an Electronic Commerce Goods Search System (ECGSS) that has functions that increase the precision of search results through training of the search system and uses affiliated business transaction processes. The software component architecture for ECGSS also allows the effective deployment of the system on every local business site, in view of the evolving trend in information technology toward easier configuration and re-usability. A general information gathering system with the infrastructure to accept every Internet communication protocol and access control is described. In this affiliated business transaction model, we classify Internet sites into two groups: a cooperative sites group, and a non-cooperative sites group. While designing the components, we optimized their specifications with respect to the whole architecture analysis, dependencies, and interface types using a component-based software development process. Experiments on the effectiveness of the user training function for the search system and the response time for simple queries for each communication protocol are presented. Comparisons of commercial search solutions and architectural standards of several organizations are also given.
Author Keywords: Information search system; Software component; Internet business model; Component-based software development; Electronic commerce
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of search systems, business models, and software technology on the internet
- 3. Affiliated business model and initial component architecture
- 4. System architecture
- 5. Analysis and design of ECGSS
- 6. Implementation issues
- 7. Experiment on gathering information and observation on architecture
- 7.1. Increase in precision of information
- 7.2. Precision of goods information gathered
- 7.3. Query response time
- 7.4. Component architecture and other commercial products
- 8. Discussion on component architecture of organization
- 9. Conclusion and future work
- Acknowledgements
- References
