AIEC99 Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce AIEC99

Call for Participation

AI for Electronic Commerce

a AAAI-99 Workshop
July 18/19, 1998
Orlando, Florida

Electronic commerce (EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services in cyberspace. Already a multi-billion-dollar segment of the world economy, it is a fast-growing and exciting field. This workshop addresses the challenges, opportunities, practical applications, and theoretical aspects of using AI in e-commerce. We particularly encourage submissions about practical applications and techniques, and about the newer area of business-to-business e-commerce, e.g., supply-chain management.

Topics of AI for EC include, but are not limited to:

  • shopping agents, e.g., find and compare
  • recommender services, e.g., in e-storefront
  • data mining of customer buying patterns
  • customer service help
  • buyer and seller economic decision-making, e.g., pricing and bidding
  • markets, auctions, negotiations, and contracts
  • agent communication, knowledge exchange, and XML
  • brokering, matchmaking, and reputation services
  • promotions, advertising, and navigation of buyer attention
  • procurement and supply chain business processes
  • product catalogs
See the workshop website for a more detailed list of topics, including of topics where significant progress has already occurred.

Format

The format of the workshop will be a mixture of presentations and discussions. Presentation time will be mostly devoted to papers, along with brief panels. Discussion time will total approximately one-third of overall workshop time. The first part of the workshop will focus more on practical applications, and the later part of the workshop will focus more on theory and discussion.

Attendance and submissions

The workshop will be limited to about 50 invited participants. To participate, you must submit a short statement (one or two pages) describing your relevant background and interests. Paper submissions of three kinds are invited: technical papers; position papers that describe opportunities and challenges; and application descriptions that focus on AI aspects. Submit your statement and optional paper electronically to aiec-submission@cs.umbc.edu by March 12, 1999. Inquiries can be sent to aiec@cs.umbc.edu. See the longer-version Call For Participation at the AIEC99 website for full details on attendance and submissions.

Workshop committee

  • Tim Finin, (chair), University of Maryland Baltimore County, finin@cs.umbc.edu, phone: 410-455-3522, fax: 410-455-3969.
  • Benjamin Grosof, (chair), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Phone: 914-784-7783, Fax: 914-784-7455
  • Yannis Labrou, University of Maryland Baltimore County, jklabrou@cs.umbc.edu.
  • Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, leora@watson.ibm.com
  • Michael Wellman, Univ. Michigan, wellman@umich.edu,

For more information

For more information, see the workshop web site at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aiec or contact one of the workshop organizers. Information about the AAAI-99 conference and its workshop program is available at http://www.aaai.org .