Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:37:56 +0800 (HKT)
From: IAT99 Conference iat99@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK
Subject: IAT'99 Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce
First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'99)
Hong Kong, December 14-17, 1999
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| WORKSHOP on AGENTS IN E-COMMERCE |
| Hong Kong, December 14, 1999 |
| http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99/ |
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| Organized by |
| IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
| Hong Kong Baptist University |
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture
of WWW are changing many market conventions and creating a tremendous
opportunity for conducting business on Internet. Intelligent agents will
play a crucial role in electronic commerce where dynamic and heterogeneous
interactions between tens of thousands of organizations and tens of millions
of individuals are involved. So far, we have already witnessed the
involvement of e-commerce agents in traditional business settings. For
example, shopping agents are now available at Excite and Yahoo. Furthermore,
the involvements of agents in e-commerce are re-shaping the ways business is
conducted in areas such as pricing, negotiation, auction, and brokerages, to
name a few. The automation brought by e-commerce agents dramatically reduces
certain types of frictional costs and time incurred in trading.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners to
identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions for e-commerce
agents. It will provide a forum for free exchange of ideas and will be
featured by invited talks and refereed paper presentations. Authors are
invited to submit regular papers, reports on work in progress, and position
papers.
For full information see http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99/
Contact Dr. Yiming Ye at yiming@watson.ibm.com for suggestions and questions.
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