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In recent years, e-Business has gained attention, and buying and sellings products online in an important component of e-Business. Today for many companies its e-Business value is much higher than the traditional way of conducting business. E-Business enables shop owners to offer a huge number of different products from various suppliers. Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC) enable customers to locate and order products. EPCs started enhancing or, in many cases, even replacing the traditional area of paper-based catalogs. They provide a shop owner a cost effective way of presenting products to the customer without being bound by constraints of paper-based catalogs, such as a maximum number of pages. EPCs can inform clients when product data are updated or added. The larger number of potential products is, of course, beneficial for (i) customers, who have more choices of products, (ii) shop owners, who can keep product data updated, and (iii) manufacturers, who are able to reach better product placing in online shops. In some scenarios, a shop owner is sent a catalog from each manufacturer containing all available products. In many cases, these catalogs contain thousands of products. A study conducted by Abels and Hahn (2006) found the number of products per catalog averaged about 34,000. Although having that many products in catalogs has many advantages, the large amount of product data raises new problems. One major problem is providing an overview about the products and their attributes. This is where so-called classification systems come. Classification systems in e-Business have been developed, "to assign each product to a product group corresponding to common attributes or application areas" (Leukel, Schmitz & Dorloff, 2002). Classification systems will be introduced in details in the following subsections together with product catalogs.Basically they aim in providing a common structure for grouping similar products. After giving a brief introduction about classification systems and electronic product catalogs, the next section describes today's problems with classification systems. This article focuses on the reclassification of product data. It gives an overview about existing approaches and introduces our Apricot framework for reclassifying products. This approach helps product suppliers inform their clients about new or updated product data by sending a product catalog in the specific classification system of the client. We demonstrate the functionality of Apricot and present evaluation results that have recently been finished. The novelty of Apricot is the aproach itself (unlike other solutions, it interprets existing classification information) as well as its application to e-business catalogs in terms of using and evaluating the tool. The purpose of this article is to: * give an overview about the meaning of classification systems as a key factor in informing clients, * explore the problems of classification systems in practice, * focus on the reclassification problem and provide an overview about possible solutions, * introduce the Apricot framework for reclassification and * describe the success of this approach in real-world scenarios, providing an overview about the evaluation results of the prototype. Electronic Product Catalogs Electronic product catalogs are used to store various product data in a homogenous catalog, which is often divided into different category groups. Baron, Shaw & Bailey (2000) define an electronic product catalog as "electronic representations of information about the products and/or services of an organization." Muldoon (2000) divides those catalogs into catalogs targeting the end consumer, called the B2C-catalog, and catalogs targeting other business-partners (B2B). He emphasizes that both are important for modern e-Business. Since several years ago, various different formats are available for storing product catalogs. …

Reclassification of Electronic Product Catalogs: The “Apricot” Approach and Its Evaluation Results