Marrón, Pedro JoséLausen, GeorgWeber, MartinWeikum, GerhardSchöning, HaraldRahm, Erhard2019-11-142019-11-1420033-88579-355-5https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/30092In this paper, we study adaptive evaluation techniques for querying XML-based electronic catalogs, and show, by means of experiments performed on real-world catalogs, that our approach can be used to integrate them with virtually zero effort at start-up time, and a small constant factor needed to perform the adaptive evaluation for all subsequent queries. We reach the conclusion that, from a strictly technical perspective, the classic role of the global catalog can be assumed in an ad-hoc manner by any catalog that forms part of a collaborative federation of XML-based catalogs, and implements our adaptive query algorithms, independently of the storage model used to access its contents.enE-CommerceE-CatalogCatalog integrationXMLXpathText/Conference Paper1617-5468