CommerceNet will be conducting its quarterly members meeting and =
research portfolio meetings September 15-17, 1997. On Tuesday, Sep. 16, =
there will be two meetings that may be of interest to participants of =
this email list. If you plan to attend, pleasae be sure to register =
online. If you would like to participate via conference call facilities =
contact Patrick Gannon <mailto:gannon@commerce.net> or Rik Drummond =
<mailto:drummond@commerce.net>.
http://www.commerce.net/services/sept_97
Information Access Portfolio
Members Meeting
Tuesday, Sep. 16, 1997
9:30am - 11:30am
TechMart - Santa Clara, CA
9:30 am Introductions & Status of Projects, Patrick Gannon, Executive =
Director, CN-IAP. mailto:gannon@commerce.net
http://members.commerce.net/pw/portfolios/access/
9:40 am Automating the Web, Phillip Merrick, President webMethods, Inc. =
mailto:phillip@webmethods.com
This presentation and demonstration will show how webMethods is applying =
XML to provide automated access to Web data and services from mainstream =
business applications. A multi-carrier shipping and tracking service =
will be highlighted to illustrate real business use of the technology.
Phillip Merrick is founder and President of webMethods, Inc., the =
leading supplier of Web automation and integration solutions to the =
Global 2000. Over his career he has architected and managed several =
application development tools in use at large IT organizations around =
the world.
webMethods
http://www.webmethods.com/
10:10 am Shopping Assistants in Internet Commerce, Dan Weld, CTO, =
Netbot, Inc. mailto:weld@cs.washington.edu
Dan will discuss Netbot's "parallel pull" agent technology, and how it =
has been used in the "Jango" internet shopping assistant. He will =
compare how this technology relates to comparable agent technologies and =
database integration technologies. He will also discuss NetBot's =
experience in using it for information integration across stores, review =
sites, and other sources. Dan will also include a discussion of the =
"comparison shopping" issue, and our experience with retailers.
Dan Weld is a founder and CTO of Netbot Inc. He is also a professor in =
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of =
Washington. He has led the Intelligent Agent research group for several =
years, during which they have developed many innovative approaches to =
aggregating information from a wide variety of Internet information =
sources.
Netbot Jango Download and information
http://www.jango.com
Parallel Pull from the Invisible Web
http://www.jango.com/company/tech/tech.html
Dan Weld
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/weld.html
10:40 am XML Catalog Project Results, Dr. Terry Allen, CNgroup. =
Mailto:terry.allen@cngroup.com
Dr. Allen is leading the project to create three sample merchant =
catalogs and one Document Type Definition file using XML. He will be =
explaining the process and showing the sample results.
Dr. Allen is a specialist in technical standards that support complex =
electronic publishing applications, including information discovery and =
retrieval, metadata, and internationalization. He is a codesigner of =
the Docbook DTD, the SGML application most commonly used for computer =
documentation. He has participated in IETF and W3C working groups on =
HTML, XML, URIs, MIME, SGML, WEBDAV, and the OCLC metadata group. He =
has a BA and MA from the Univ of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Harvard =
U.
11:20 am XML iMarket Action Planning, All Attendees
This project is being designed to build a demonstration virtual =
marketplace which utilizes the multiple vendor XML catalogs with =
standard DTDs and allows shoppers to search for products across vendors =
by specifying product and merchant attributes. The use of style sheets =
to enable merchant differentiation and promotion of brand equity is also =
planned.
11:30 am Adjourn. =20
Attendees are invited to attend the EDI & Network Services Portfolio =
meeting at 3:00pm to 6:00pm where there will be an XML Tutorial and =
ically definable.=20
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Robert J. Glushko is the Director for Component-Based Commerce at =
CNgroup, a recent "spin-off" from CommerceNet that provides software and =
services in support of open Internet markets. Until May 1997 he was the =
Chief Scientist and Vice President for Strategy at Passage Systems, a =
consulting and systems integration firm specializing in SGML-based =
publishing (which he co-founded in 1992). He has nearly twenty years of =
research, development, and consulting experience in online publishing =
and commerce, SGML and XML, and user interfaces for hypertext systems =
and information retrieval. =20
All attendees must register online. Non-CommerceNet members are invited =
to attend the portfolio meetings on Tuesday, Sep. 16. The Wednesday =
meeting is for CommerceNet members only.
http://www.commerce.net/services/sept_97/