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W O R K S H O P O N
Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB)
June 14, 2003 - Halifax Canada
http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb
In conjunction with the
The Sixteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2003)
June 11-13, 2003
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Conference Website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/AI03/
Theme:
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,
OASIS, 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 BASeWEB'02 Novel E-Commerce Applications of Agents
and Semantic Web-based E-Commerce and Rules Markup Languages.
The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
working on E-business, Agents, Web Systems and the Semantic Web to
explore novel uses of AI techniques in the Web and extending Web
techniques by AI.
Topics of interest:
All topics related to agents and e-business are welcome. Topics of interest
include, but are not restricted to:
Semantic Web approaches and architectures
Semantic Web Servers
Web agents for producers and consumers
E-Business architectures 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
Adaptive 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 AI2003
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 Ali Ghorbani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) expressing their
particular interest in the workshop.
Researchers interested in contributing a paper should send it to
Ali Ghorbani (in PDF format ONLY), up to 10 pages. Papers may already
be prepared in one of the Elsevier formats.
The papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. All
accepted papers will be included into the workshop notes and their
authors will be invited to the workshop. Out of these papers several
will be selected for presentation at the workshop. The main criteria
of this selection is 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 on-line 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
OWL and RuleML.
Revised papers from previous editions of this workshop have resulted in:
1. A special issue of the journal Computational Intelligence Vol. 18, No. 4.
November 2002.
2. A special issue of the journal Electronic Commerce Research and
Applications is being prepared for the resubmitted papers from the
BASeWEB 2002 workshop.
Important dates:
1. Deadline for Submissions/Requests for Participation: Feb. 28, 2003
2. Invitations will be sent out: April 4, 2003
3. Camera-ready paper due: May 2, 2003
4. Workshop: June 14, 2003
Organizing committee:
Harold Boley (NRC, Fredericton, Canada)
Ali Ghorbani (UNB, Fredericton, Canada)
Bruce Spencer (NRC, Fredericton, Canada)
Said Tabet (USA)
Program committee:
David Ash (USA)
Ansgar Bernardi (Germany)
Prabhakar Bhogaraju (USA)
Harold Boley (Canada)
Ralph Deters (Canada)
Ali Ghorbani (Canada)
Benjamin Grosof (USA)
Stephen Marsh (Canada)
Steve Ross-Talbot (UK)
Bruce Spencer (Canada)
Julita Vassileva (Canada)
Gerd Wagner (The Netherlands)
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Dr. Ali A. Ghorbani, Associate Professor
Faculty of Computer Science Tel: (506)458-7270
University of New Brunswick Fax: (506)453-3566
Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~ghorbani
