Symposium on Information Agents for E-Commerce
AISB'01 Convention
21st - 24th March 2001
University of York, United Kingdom
Motivation
Internet connectivity is creating an information-centric society where
millions of people access daily large amounts of information stored in
distinct and possibly heterogeneous data sources. Frequently, pieces of
information from different sources can be combined to create new and often
more meaningful information. As a way of automating this process, a research
strategy is currently being devoted to the development of information
agents, software components that can act on behalf of individual users to
manage intelligently the information one typically finds in distributed
networks like the Internet.
However, as complexity of creating new information increases (finding the
right pieces to produce a new one can be quite time consuming), the concept
of information is slowly transforming itself from a freely accessible entity
to that of a product with a price. This transformation has opened up new
markets where information is traded electronically much the same way a
physical product is. However, the importance of information markets is that
physical products are not excluded, in that these too can be represented as
pieces of information.
It is the goal of this symposium to present current research in information
agents for electronic commerce, where the activities for trading information
in an electronic market could take place between people, organizations or
both. The symposium aims to assess the outcomes of such research and to
identify issues for future investigation.
Symposium Chairs
Michael Schroeder and Kostas Stathis
Department of Computing,
School of Informatics,
City University,
London EC1V 0HB, UK.
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Programme Committee:
Mark D'Inverno, University of Westminster, UK
Michael Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Mike Luck, University of Southampton, UK
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Joerg Mueller, Siemens, Germany
Simon Parsons, University of Liverpool, UK
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, London, UK
Chris Preist, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, UK
Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London, UK
Carles Sierra, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Francesca Toni, Imperial College, London, UK
Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, UK
Call for Papers
We invite participation from researchers from diverse fields such as
computer science, engineering, cognitive science, logic, management and
economics, and we encourage work that emphasises convergence between these
various fields. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for
submissions include:
Adaptivity/personalisation (user modeling, learning, profiling);
Architectures (methodologies, frameworks, platforms, infrastructures,
mobility);
Auctions (management, support, communication);
Data mining (data discovery, cleaning, aggregation);
Document management (EDI, XML, electronic contracts);
Economics (information markets, pricing models, virtual organisations);
Information Integration (mediators, faciliatators, query processing);
Information Trading (traders, brokers, service discovery);
Information Dissemination (search, filtering, retrieval, price comparison);
Negotiation (argumentation models, strategies, delegation);
Supply Chain (distribution networks support, recommending systems);
Trust, Privacy and Security issues (specification, formal models,
implementation methodologies);
User Interface Design issues (metaphors, interaction design);
Visualisation issues (user-agent communication & interaction);
Practical Applications (B2B, B2C, m-commerce).
Submissions
We invite extended abstracts of up to 5 pages in length describing original
completed work, work in progress, or interesting problems to be solved. The
selection will be fully refereed and it will be based on the originality and
significance of the ideas as well as on technical aspects. Accepted extended
abstracts should be followed by full papers up to 15 pages in length. At
least one author of each accepted paper should attend the symposium and be
prepared to present the work.
Submissions should be emailed to the symposium chairs:
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in either postscript or pdf before 21 December 2000.
Timetable
Abstract submission deadline => 21st December 2000
Notification re: extended abstracts 20th January 2001
Submission of full papers 1st March 2001
Convention 21st - 24th March 2001
PLEASE NOTE: the submission deadline of full papers is strict as the
convention starts very soon after this.
Contacts and Links
If you have any questions about this symposium, please contact the programme
chairs, either at the address given above, or email: [log in to unmask] /
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If you have any questions about the AISB'01 convention, please contact the
convention chair, Simon Colton: [log in to unmask]
If you have any questions about the local arrangements, please contact the
local arrangements chair, Eduardo Alonso: [log in to unmask]
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