Talk Abstract for Harvard Econ/CompSci Seminar

        May 4, 2004, 4pm 
                  hosted by Prof. David Parkes, Computer Science, Harvard U.

      E-Services Knowledge Management on the New Generation Web: 
        End-to-End Contracting and Business Process Automation 

                 Prof. Benjamin Grosof

        MIT Sloan Information Technologies group
   bgrosof@mit.edu   http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof


The new generation web, using XML and knowledge-based techniques,
promises much deeper and cheaper business process automation, enabling
much expanded e-services.  We give a new technological approach to
knowledge management for e-contracting and business process automation
that combines the MIT Process Handbook with rule-based semantic web
services, building upon our earlier work on web rules for
e-contracting and trust.  We give some new associated analysis of
business and market evolution and strategies.  In particular, we give
a new roadmap for development of open shared knowledge bases about
business processes and contracts, as a key element of industry
infrastructure.

Work supported in part by the Center for eBusiness @ MIT Vision Fund
and a DARPA Agent Markup Language program award.