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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Announcing a special Issue of
Computational Intelligence
Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB)
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http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb
Agent technology is one of the most promising tools to conduct business
via the Internet. 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 special issue aims to address research in extending Web techniques by
AI or transferring AI techniques to the Web in an attempt to create
intelligent business agents. The objective behind this special issue is to
report on state-of-the art of theoretical and methodological developments
for E-business, Agents, Web Systems, the Semantic Web and novel uses of AI
techniques in the Web and extending Web techniques by AI.
Topics of interest:
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Topics related to agents and e-business are welcome. Topics of interest
include, but are not restricted to:
Adaptive business agents
Trust, privacy, security of business agents
Application areas for rules (e.g., P3P, XACML, ebXML, DRM, etc.)
Architectures: methodologies, frameworks, mobility of Business agents
Belief logics and planning for multiple agents
Description logics and Web ontologies (e.g., DAML+OIL, OWL)
Distributed deduction for the Semantic Web
E-Business architectures in the Semantic Web
Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML) Arial,
Inference engines: deduction and induction
Knowledge management and e-business agents
Large-Scale E-Business Agent-Based Systems
Lessons learned from implemented systems
Natural language interfaces for business agents
Negotiations: bargaining, auctions, and trust
Product and service codes/registries (e.g., UNSPSC/UDDI)
Semantic Web approaches and architectures
Semantic Web Services
Web agents for producers and consumers
Submission Instructions:
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Researchers interested in contributing paper(s) should send them
electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please observe the Computational
Intelligence submission
guidelines(http://www.cs.unb.ca/basweb/ci_special_issue/ci_guidelines.pdf.
Paper lengths should not exceed 15 pages in Computational Intelligence.
Important Dates:
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Submission date: November 14, 2003
Notification of acceptance: February 13, 2004
Camera ready copies: April 9, 2004
Guest Editor:
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Ali A. Ghorbani
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Guest Editorial Board:
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Harold.Boley
Institute for Information Technology e-Business
National Research Council,
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Scott Buffett
Institute for Information Technology e-Business
National Research Council,
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Bruce Spencer
Institute for Information Technology e-Business
National Research Council,
Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Said Tabet
http://home.comcast.net/~stabet/
Related Event:
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This special issue follows the BASeWEB'2003 workshop (Business Agents and
the Semantic Web) held in conjunction with the AI2003 Conference in June
2003 in Halifax Canada. Papers from that event, as well as new papers not
from BASeWEB are welcome for submission to this special issue.
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