IGEC News

• IGEC faculty are organizing a Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets to be held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000) on Monday, July 31 in Austin TX. The workshop will address the challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of knowledge-based electronic markets (eMarkets). ng, learning, and communication, e.g., in intelligent agents.
• UMBC has partnered with Oracle to join the Oracle Academic Initiative and offer Oracle Certified Professional training courses beginning in January 2000. UMBC will provide students with Oracle-authorized curricula and exceptional resources for Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) exam preparation, the option to participate, free of charge, in the Oracle Academic Initiative's Job Recruitment Database, free Oracle software licenses for self study, and significantly discounted examination fees. More information.
• A paper "A Declarative Approach to Business Rules in Contracts: Courteous Logic Programs in XML" was presented at the First ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99), Denver, CO (November 1999). Authors: Benjamin Grosof, Yannis Labrou and Hoi Chan.
• IGEC faculty organized a panel on Mobility and Electronic Commerce at the First ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce held in Denver on November 3rd.

October, 1999

• A paper An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration, First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA'99) & Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA'99). Authors: R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield and Akram Boughannam.
• Yahoo! as an Ontology - Using Yahoo! Categories to Describe Documents, Eighth International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM-99), Kansas City, MO (October 1999). Authors: Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin.

September, 1999

August, 1999

• A paper by Ye Chen Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, and Scott Cost, A negotiating agents for supply chain management tended abstract, AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, Orlando, Florida, July, 1999.
• IGEC faculty helped to organize a workshop on AI for Electronic Commerce held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-1999).
• An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment, 3rd. World Multiconference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (SCI'99/ISAS'99), Orlando, FL (July 31 - August 4, 1999). Authors: Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Bill Chu, Valerie Cross, Mike Russell, Bill Tolone, Akram Boughannam and Jerry McCobb.