[UAI] CFP: BASeWEB @ AAMAS 2006 [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting]

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Business Agents and the Semantic Web Workshop (BASeWEB'06)
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http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/mfasli/BASeWEB-06.htm

May 8, 2006 - Hakodate, Japan
held in conjunction with AAMAS 2006

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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. The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
working on E-business, Agents, Web Systems and the Semantic Web to explore
novel uses of AI techniques in the Web and extending Web techniques by using
AI.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

All topics related to agents and e-business are welcome. Topics of interest
include, but are not restricted to:
- Semantic Web approaches and architectures
- Semantic Web services
- Web agents for producers and consumers
- E-business architectures in the Semantic Web
- Business agent architectures
- Knowledge management and e-business agents
- Product and service codes/registries (e.g., UNSPSC/UDDI)
- Description logics and web ontologies
- Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML)
- Application areas for rules (e.g., P3P, XACML, ebXML, DRM, etc.)
- Belief logics and planning for multiple agents
- Rule Systems for Business Agents
- Negotiation (bargaining, auctions and trust)
- Inference engines: deduction and induction
- Distributed deduction for the Semantic Web
- Natural language interfaces for business agents
- Adaptive business agents
- Web service composition and choreography
- Machine learning for adaptive systems and user modeling
- Human-business agent interaction/cooperation
- Lessons learned from implemented systems


WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will mainly consist of presentations of submitted works, and a
discussion on a particular topic (tbc) towards the end of the workshop.


SUBMISSIONS

Researchers interested in contributing a paper should send it to
wpylwiz73@essex.ac.uk (in PDF format ONLY), up to 8 pages in the designated
AAMAS format. The templates are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
The papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. All accepted
papers will be included into the workshop notes and their authors will be
invited to the workshop. The main criteria of this selection are
originality, contribution, clarity, as well as 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.
Workshop organizers can submit paper(s) subject to the following extra
conditions:  Papers will be submitted blind, i.e. given a double-blind
review. None of the reviewers of those papers will be organizers of the
workshop. Any decisions regarding those papers will be in camera, not
including the author.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions:                   Jan 15 , 2006
Notifications of Acceptance:   Feb 19 , 2006
Camera-ready paper due:        March 12, 2006
Workshop:                      May 8, 2006


POST WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

All authors will be invited to extend their papers for submission to a
special issue of Computational Intelligence. Revised papers from previous
editions of this workshop have resulted in:
- A special issue of Computational Intelligence Vol. 18, No. 4. November
2002
- Two special sections of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications,
Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 2003 and Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2004
- A special issue of Computational Intelligence Vol. 20, No. 4. November
2004


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK (chair)
Harold Boley , NRC, Fredericton, Canada
Scott Buffett, NRC, Fredericton, Canada
Ali Ghorbani, UNB, Fredericton, Canada
Bruce Spencer, NRC, Fredericton, Canada
Said Tabet, Macgregor, Boston, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(incomplete)
Magnus Boman, SICS, Sweden
Brahim Chaib-Draa, Laval University, Canada
Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Hamada Ghenniwa, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Sandy Liu, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada
Stephen Marsh, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada
Gord McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Michael Sintek, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
GmbH, Germany
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada


