Facing the product reclassification challenge

Abstract

Classification systems are often used in the e-Business domain to arrange products into different categories (classes). Within this field, the reclassification deals with the challenges that occur whenever two or more product catalogs are based on different classification systems. In this situation, it is necessary to re-arrange the product into another class--structure in order to enable a semantic exchange of data. This paper introduces the reclassification challenge and it outlines an idea for performing a semi-automatic reclassification of products.