Collaborative conceptualisation: Towards a conceptual foundation of interoperable electronic product catalogue system design

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-94

  Guo, Jingzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Collaboration mechanism; Collaborative concept exchange; Collaborative conceptualisation; Collaborative integration; Interoperable electronic product catalogue; Product data integration; Product data management; Product map; Product representation; Semiotic analysis

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INFORMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SEMANTICS; SEMIOTICS;

COLLABORATION MECHANISM; COLLABORATIVE CONCEPT EXCHANGE; COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTUALISATION; COLLABORATIVE INTEGRATION; INTEROPERABLE ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CATALOGUE; PRODUCT DATA INTEGRATION; PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT MAP; PRODUCT REPRESENTATION; SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 60049095335     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517570802610362     Document Type: Article

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