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			CALL FOR PAPERS and DEMONSTRATIONS

		Special Session on Negotiation and Market Platforms
		http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/gdn2007demo/  

				To be held at

	The Joint Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN2007)
			  Mt. Tremblant, Montreal
			     May 14-17, 2007
			http://gdn2007.concordia.ca/ 

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DESCRIPTION

The growth of e-commerce and e-business has resulted in an increased number 
of the types and forms of information sources and exchange mechanisms in 
electronic marketplaces. In addition to the main types of exchange mechanisms 
including catalogues, auctions and negotiations, the marketplaces often offer 
many variations and combinations of each separately and combined. The 
participants may access a variety of information sources and choose from many 
different exchange mechanisms; some of which are complex and difficult to 
conduct. Therefore both the communication efficiency in accessing and 
exchanging the information, and the operational effectiveness in supporting and 
automating decision-making processes are critical considerations in the 
development and adoption of the marketplace platforms.

The aim of this session is to present the latest developments in the negotiation 
and market platforms. The presentations will involve demonstrations of the 
operational, prototypical or experimental platforms. Participants are encouraged 
to submit a full paper or an extended abstract about the platform, together with a 
brief description of the proposed demonstration. The extended abstract should 
give a short overview of the demonstrated platform, its underlying principles and 
state the significance of the contribution to the field. The full paper should 
present the approach and the platform in more details, preferably including a 
case-study or an example of real-world application. The selection of the 
submissions will be based upon the relevance, originality and contributions. Both 
the extended abstracts and full papers will be published in the conference 
proceedings, and revised papers will be considered for journal publication.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome submissions of papers on and demonstrations of the innovative 
marketplace platforms including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Electronic auctions and markets
- E-negotiation systems and assistants
- Agent-based auction, negotiation and market systems
- Decision support and automation in marketplaces 
- Integration and standards (e.g. web services, agents)
- Ontology and semantic interoperability 
- Platforms for specific application domains

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Submissions involve two parts as follows:
- A full paper or an extended abstract formatted according to the GDN conference 
requirements (see 
http://gdn2007.concordia.ca/index.php?authorsInstructions=1) and submitted 
via the GDN’2007 conference submission system at 
http://gdn2007.concordia.ca/SubmitAbstract.php (abstracts) and 
http://gdn2007.concordia.ca/SubmitPaper.php (papers).
- A short description of the demo (max 2 pages), including its content and 
format, a detailed description of the hardware and software requirements, and a 
URL for a currently-active WWW-based demo, video clip or a demo storyboard. 
The demo description should be sent after the paper submission as a PDF 
attachment via e-mail to mchhetri@ict.swin.edu.au (In the subject please include 
the Paper ID allocated during the paper submission).

IMPORTANT NOTE

Please note that by default, authors are required to present their software live at 
the session. Other formats of demonstration, such as video clips or slide shows 
may be accepted in exceptional cases. The authors are required to state in the 
demo description the format in which they will be presenting their demonstration. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due (extended abstract/paper & demo description) - February 5, 2007
Notification 		 				    – March 1, 2007
Camera Ready Submission 				    – April 1, 2007
GDN-2007 Conference 					    – May 14-17, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mohan Baruwal Chhetri (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Jakub Brzostowski (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

See http://gdn2007.concordia.ca/index.php?committee=1 

CONTACT

Mohan Baruwal Chhetri (mchhetri@ict.swin.edu.au)