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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                 WORKSHOP ON BUSINESS APPLICATIONS OF AI

              held in conjunction with the Fifteenth International
              Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97)

                              Nagoya, Japan
                            August 23-29, 1997

BACKGROUND:
There has been a growing interest over the years in the application of
AI techniques to problems in the business domain. This interest has 
manifested itself in several ways. A growing number of successfully 
fielded business tools utilize AI techniques. A large and growing body 
of researchers are investigating such problems. Common threads that can 
serve as the basis for the integration of a wide spectrum of AI-based 
business support tools are beginning to emerge. This workshop
seeks to provide a forum for highlighting and discussing research and
development efforts in this area.

AREAS OF INTEREST/WORKSHOP GOALS:
Papers relating to AI applications in the following domains are of
interest to the workshop:
* business process reengineering/workflow management. 
* electronic commerce. 
* finance and investment. 
* marketing and retailing. 
* accounting and auditing. 
* scheduling. 
* data warehousing and mining 
* corporate memory 

Of special interest are papers that consider the interfaces between and
integration of AI-based tools across domains (for instance, the 
integration of tools that support business process reengineering, data 
warehousing and corporate memory).

The AI technologies of interest span a wide spectrum and include neural
computing, evolutionary computing, case-based reasoning, knowledge-based 
systems methodologies, formal inference and agent-based systems, amongst 
others. Of interest to the workshop are:
* papers that present fundamental/theoretical advances. 
* papers that describe fielded applications. 
* papers that study the effectiveness of AI-based solutions.
Perhaps the most significant contribution that this workshop seeks to
make is the identification, through discussions and interaction, of the 
common principles underlying the application of a wide array of technologies 
to this broad but closely related class of problems. This in turn might 
suggest hybrid approaches that can make business problem solving using 
AI-based tools and techniques more effective.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Daniel E. O'Leary (University of Southern California, USA)
Joseph Davis (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Vasant Dhar (Morgan Stanley, USA)
Grigoris Antoniou (Griffith University, Australia)
Aditya Ghose (University of Wollongong, Australia)

PAPER SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION:
Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words in length. Electronic
submission in the form of postscript files is encouraged. In case 
hard-copies are being submitted, provide 4 copies.  Submissions should 
be sent to:

Aditya Ghose
Department of Business Systems
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Email: a.ghose@uow.edu.au

Decisions on submitted papers will be based on the comments of no less
than 3 reviewers.

Participation in the workshop is open to all members of the AI
community. However, the total number of participants is capped at 40. 
Persons wishing to participate but not present a paper should submit a 
brief statement of interest describing their focus and background. 
All workshop participants must register for the IJCAI conference. 

WORKSHOP NOTES:
Working notes for the workshop will be duplicated and distributed by the
IJCAI conference organizers. The organizing committee hopes to produce a 
post-workshop publication, either in the form of an edited volume or a 
journal special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: March 15, 1997
Author notification: March 31, 1997
Final papers due: April 20, 1997
Statements of interest due: April 25, 1997

A workshop web page is available at the following URL:

http://www.uow.edu.au/commerce/buss/ai-buss/