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, 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 Novel E-Commerce Applications of Agents and Semantic Web-based E-Commerce and Rules Markup Languages.
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 in this workshop is by invitation only and invitees must be registered for the AI-2002 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 the organizing committee expressing their particular interest in the workshop.
Researchers interested in contributing a paper should send it to the organizing committee (in PDF format ONLY), up to 8 pages. Papers may already be prepared in one of the Elsevier formats.
The papers will be reviewed by the organization committee (and some additional referees) and all papers of sufficient quality will be included into the workshop notes (and their authors invited to the workshop, of course). Out of these papers several will be selected for presentation at the workshop. The main criteria of this selection will be 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.
Professor Jae Kyu Lee,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Seoul, Korea
A Framework for Knowledge
Management with the eXtensible Rule Markup Language
Professor Jörg Denzinger,
University of Calgary, Canada
Distributed Deduction and the Semantic Web
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David Ash (USA) Justin Hickey (Canada) Ansgar Bernardi (Germany)
Stephen Marsh (Canada) Prabhakar Bhogaraju (USA)
Steve Ross-Talbot (UK)
Harold Boley (Germany)
Bruce Spencer (Canada)
Ali Ghorbani (Canada)
Said Tabet (USA)
Benjamin Grosof (USA)
Gerd Wagner (The Netherlands)