The AI-2002 Workshop
on
Business Agents and the Semantic
Web
held at the AI 2002 (AI-2002)
May 26, 2002, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
New:
Submission information updated and deadline
extended.
E-business increasingly uses Web Services
or agents acting on behalf of human buyers and sellers. Such Business Agents can
profit from the machine-interpretable product and service descriptions provided
by the Semantic Web. Cross-fertilized techniques from AI (e.g., Intelligent
Agents) and the Internet (e.g., the Semantic Web) are thus explored by numerous
organizations world-wide, including W3C, DARPA, NRC, IST, and INTAP. Web
ontologies - consisting of taxonomies and/or rules - constitute the centerpiece
of the new AI-Internet synthesis.
This workshop addresses researchers extending Web
techniques by AI or transferring AI techniques to the Web in an attempt to
create intelligent business agents. The current workshop builds on previous
workshops such as Novel
E-Commerce Applications of Agents and Semantic Web-based E-Commerce and
Rules Markup Languages.
Topics
All topics related to agents and e-business are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Semantic Web
approaches and architectures
- Web agents for
producers and consumers
- E-Business setups
in the Semantic Web
- Business agent
architectures
- Knowledge
management and e-business agents
- Product and
service codes/registries (e.g., UNSPSC/UDDI)
- Description logics
and Web ontologies (e.g., DAML+OIL, OWL)
- Extended Horn
logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML)
- Application areas
for rules (e.g., P3P, XACML, ebXML, DRM, etc.)
- Belief logics and
planning for multiple agents
- Negotiations:
bargaining, auctions, and trust
- Inference engines:
deduction and induction
- Distributed
deduction for the Semantic Web
- Natural language
interfaces for business agents
- Lessons learned
from implemented systems
Workshop format
The workshop will consist of some short introductory
remarks by the organizers and then mostly of presentations of submitted works,
followed by an open discussion session, where the state of the field, current
problems and new directions will be examined. Recommendations concerning
relevant emerging Web standards will be considered.
Participation and
Submissions
Participation in this workshop is by invitation only and
invitees must be registered for the AI-2002 conference. Also attendance is
limited. Therefore, in case that a selection becomes necessary, we ask
researchers that just want to attend the workshop without contributing a paper
to send a short email to the
organizing committee expressing their particular interest in the workshop.
Researchers interested in contributing a paper should
send it to the
organizing committee (in PDF format ONLY), up to 8 pages. Papers may already
be prepared in one of the Elsevier
formats.
The papers
will be reviewed by the organization committee (and some additional referees)
and all papers of sufficient quality will be included into the workshop notes
(and their authors invited to the workshop, of course). Out of these papers
several will be selected for presentation at the workshop. The main criteria of
this selection will be to cover a broad variety of concepts and the contribution
to the goals stated above. To facilitate a lively and interesting discussion, we
will try to make all the papers available to the participants of the workshop
before the workshop takes place.
After workshop
activities
Besides online and conventional proceedings as well as a
journal issue partially based on resubmitted papers, the workshop results will
be immediately made available to researchers working on emerging Web standards
such as DAML+OIL and RuleML. A special issue of the
journal Electronic Commerce
Research and Applications is being prepared for the resubmitted papers from
this workshop.
Invited Speakers
Important dates
- Deadline for
Submissions/Requests for Participation: March 28, 2002
(extended
deadline)
- Invitations will
be sent out: April 8, 2002
- Workshop: May 26, 2002
Organizing
Committee
Program Committee
|
David Ash (USA) |
Justin Hickey (Canada) |
|
Ansgar Bernardi (Germany) |
Steve
Ross-Talbot (UK) |
|
Prabhakar Bhogaraju (USA) |
Bruce
Spencer (Canada) |
|
Harold Boley (Germany) |
Said
Tabet (USA) |
|
Ali
Ghorbani (Canada) |
Gerd
Wagner (The Netherlands) |
|
Benjamin Grosof (USA) |
|
