Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic Commerce
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
M. Brian Blake, Chair
Technical Report WS-02-01
48 pp., $25.00
ISBN 978-1-57735-154-2
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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.