The 16th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI 2003

Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB’03)

Saturday 14 June, 2003

                     

8:45 - 9:00

Opening Remarks on Business Agents and the Semantic Web

Room: 127 (Computer Science Auditorium)

Speaker: Said Tabet

 

Invited Talk

Andreas Eberhart, School of Information and Communication Technology, International University, Germany.

 

10:00 - 10:15

Coffee

10:15 - 11:55

Web Services

Chair: Ali Ghorbani

10:15 -10:40   Submitted Paper (Yinsheng Li, Hamada Ghenniwa and Weiming Shen )

                        Integrated Description for Web Service-Oriented Agents in  e-Marketplaces

         

10:40 - 11:05 Submitted Paper (Abbie Barbir )

                        Web Services Security an Enabler of Semantic Web Services

           

11:05 - 11:30 Submitted Paper (Scott Buffett, Keping Jia, Sandy Liu, Bruce Spencer and Fang Wang)

                        Negotiating Exchanges of P3P-labeled Information for Measurable Benefits

           

11:30 - 11:55 Submitted Paper (Fang Wang and Bruce Spencer)

                        A Proposal and Evaluation Engine for Adding Negation to P3P/APPEL

 

           

Invited Talk (Multiagent computing for e-business)

Brahim Chaib-draa, Computer Science and Software Engineering Dept., Laval University, Canada

14:00 - 15:15

 

e-Business and Multiagent Systems

Chair: Bruce Spencer

14:00 - 14:25 Submitted Paper (Xiaolin Niu, Gordon McCalla and Julita Vassileva)

                        Purpose-based Expert Finding in a Portfolio Management System

 

14:25 - 14:50 Submitted Paper (Virendra C. Bhavsar, Harold Boley and Lu Yang)

                        A Weighted-Tree Similarity Algorithm for Multi-Agent Systems in 

                        e-Business Environments

                     

14:50 - 15:15 Submitted Paper  (S. Abu-Draz and E. Shakshuki )

                        Peer to Peer Multi-agent System for Online Trading

15:15 - 15:30

Coffee

15:30 - 17:00

Panel Discussion (Status and Prospect of Information Security and Privacy in e-Commerce)

Moderator: Ali Ghorbani and Bruce Spencer

Panelists:

  • Abbie Barbir  (Nortel Networks)

  • Scott Flinn (NRC IIT e-Business, Fredericton)

  • Ali Ghorbani (UNB - Computer Science)

  • Daniel MacKay (Bonmot Internet Consulting)

  • Greg Sprague (UNB and NRC IIT e-Business, Fredericton)