KBEM'00 Knowledge Based Electronic Markets KBEM'00
 

The AAAI-2000 Workshop on
Knowledge-based Electronic Markets

Monday, July 31, Austin TX, USA

held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
with support from the Institute for Global Electronic Commerce

 

Short Call for Papers and Participation

The AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets will address the challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of knowledge-based electronic markets (emarkets). By emarkets, we mean markets on the Web (or large inter-enterprise private networks) where buyers interact and transact with sellers. emarkets also include infrastructure support and mediation services and players, e.g., for yellow pages, catalogs, shopping search, advertising, sales assistants, brokering, aggregation, infomediaries, reputation and trust management, authentication, and payments. By knowledge-based, we mean using automated techniques for knowledge representation and reasoning, learning, and communication, e.g., in intelligent agents.

Topics

We encourage submissions about practical applications and techniques, business-to-business (B2B) applications, supply chain management, the use of XML and XML-based mark-up languages, developing and using shared ontologies, the evolution of standards for emarkets (e.g., for agent communication, contracts, XML-encoded information, and domain-specific ontologies), practical recommender services, data mining and machine learning in emarkets, online product and service catalogs, languages and techniques for product and service descriptions and configuration, languages and protocols for automatic negotiation, the integration of decision support systems for emarket applications, and discussion of relevant technical issues underlying important policy questions such as privacy and the protection of intellectual property.

Format and submissions

The workshop will be a mix of presentations, panels and discussions. Participation will be limited and by invitation only, with preference given to people who have submitted a paper. We invite paper submissions of three kinds: technical papers which report on completed or ongoing research, application descriptions that focus on knowledge-based aspects of a prototype or fielded application, and position papers that describe opportunities, challenges, or problems. Accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published as a AAAI technical report. Papers must be submitted electronically ( postcript or pdf) by March 10, 2000 via the KBEM web site.

Organizers

The workshop co-chairs are Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County (finin@cs.umbc.edu, 410-455-3522, fax: 410-455-3969) and Benjamin Grosof, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (grosof@us.ibm.com, 914-784-7783, Fax: 914-784-7455). A complete list of the organizing committee and program committee is available at the KBEM web site.

For more information

Further details on the workshop, instructions for submitting papers and position statements, and instructions for requesting an invitation to participate can be obtained at the KBEM web site (http://www.igec.umbc.edu/kbem/) or from one of workshop organizers. You can also egister your interest in the workshop and subscribe to a mailing list to receive updates by sending a message to the bot kbem00-subscribe@cs.umbc.edu.