Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic Commerce
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
M. Brian Blake, Chair
With the increasing acceptance of the Internet, various technologies have been used to manage and automate online business. Currently, there is a large body of work supporting the use of intelligent software agents in electronic commerce. To date, the majority of this work has focused on agent-supported collaborations between online businesses and consumers (B2C). Currently, an increasing amount of agent research has been directed toward B2B domains. The large majority of this work supports common artifi- cial intelligence approaches to automated negotiation and pricing, auctioning and transactional reasoning, business-oriented ontological representation and learning, and the control of workflow or supply chain management among online businesses. In drawing a distinct line between agent-oriented B2C commerce and agent-oriented B2B commerce, we invite manuscripts from researchers and industry labs that are specifically working on the underlying concepts, architectures, representations, and implementations for agent-oriented B2B commerce.