The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce
August 14-16, 2006
Delta Fredericton
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Semantic Web Ontologies, Rules and Services

Track Chairs:

Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada

This track is devoted to the fundamental e-commerce infrastructure – the Semantic Web, which allows users to integrate large amounts of human knowledge collected across the Web. We are seeking papers for all three (Semantic) Web technology layers (ontologies, rules and services), and their combinations, as relevant for e-commerce applications.

Ontologies permit to specify, standardize, and formalize the conceptualization of a business domain (e.g., a product catalog, stock market, or learning object repository), helping users of e-commerce applications to access the business and commercial information they need. Ontologies play a very important role in communication, interoperation and content mining across the Web. Papers in areas of ontology representation, Semantic Web ontology languages, ontology management and their use for e-activities (in particular, for e-commence/e-business) are welcome.

Rules can be utilized to model (onto)logical/empirical constraints, consumers’ behaviour, business policies and government regulations, etc., so that consequences, assumptions, and violations, can be automatically detected and/or learned. Rules in e-commerce and e-business applications can provide ontology-based (semi-)automatic derivation of commercial and business solutions from existing facts as well as assist in the explanation of a solution’s rationale. Also rules can be used for the generation of reports to end users of e-commerce and e-business applications. This track invites you to contribute papers in areas of rule representation and languages, and inference mechanisms, in particular on the Semantic Web.

Services enable us to describe (e.g., with rules) business workflows and processes for web service discovery, composition, choreography, execution, monitoring, and recovery. We are seeking papers in the areas of the Semantic Web and Web Services, in particular services, which utilize ontologies and rules to support e-commerce and e-business applications

Suggested topics (but not limited): 

Invited Speaker:

Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sub-program Committee:  

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece

Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada
Jos de Bruijn, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Kurt Englmeier, Schmalkalden University of Applied Science,   Germany
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA

Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Said Tabet, Inferware Corp., USA

Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland