FACILITATING E-BUSINESS BY RETRIEVING RELEVANT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ON THE INTERNET

Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, François Paradis

2007

Abstract

The Web is a useful medium that contains more and more business opportunities. However, it is often difficult to identify relevant ones using generic search engines. In this paper, we describe a system MBOI dedicated to the matching of business opportunities on the Web. It collects automatically calls for tenders, analyzes and classifies them. User profiles are automatically constructed to help document retrieval. Query translation is also provided in order to allow users to find calls for tenders written in a different language.

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Bai J., Nie J. and Paradis F. (2007). FACILITATING E-BUSINESS BY RETRIEVING RELEVANT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ON THE INTERNET . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-11-1, pages 174-179. DOI: 10.5220/0002115101740179


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@conference{ice-b07,
author={Jing Bai and Jian-Yun Nie and François Paradis},
title={FACILITATING E-BUSINESS BY RETRIEVING RELEVANT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ON THE INTERNET},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={174-179},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002115101740179},
isbn={978-989-8111-11-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2007)
TI - FACILITATING E-BUSINESS BY RETRIEVING RELEVANT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ON THE INTERNET
SN - 978-989-8111-11-1
AU - Bai J.
AU - Nie J.
AU - Paradis F.
PY - 2007
SP - 174
EP - 179
DO - 10.5220/0002115101740179