Workshop: Research Priorities in Electronic Commerce

电子商务中出现了一些新出现的科学问题，需要在研讨会的背景下进行审查，以确定国家科学基金会是否以及如何支持该领域的近期和中期未来研究。其中一些问题包括：可能得到新技术支持的信任的发展；对质量的动态但有限的信息评估；电子市场的自动订约、中介、易于处理的算法，以及电子商务与建立关系之间的联系，包括社区、组织等。这次讲习班将调查和确定在将信息基础设施应用于商业方面具有战略性、及时性和紧迫性的研究领域；制定一套研究优先事项；就如何最好地相互利用电子商务的各种研究组成部分和建立协作达成共识；以及广泛传播成果。

There is a number of emerging scientific issues in electronic commerce that bear examination in the context of a workshop, to determine whether and how NSF should support near- and medium-term future research in the area. Some of these issues include the development of trust, potentially supported by new technologies, dynamic but limited-information assessments of quality; automated contracting, intermediation, tractable algorithms for electronic markets, and the links between electronic commerce and the building of relationships, including communities, organizations, etc. This workshop will survey and identify strategic, timely and pressing research areas in the application of information infrastructure to commerce; develop a set of research priorities; build consensus on how the various research components of electronic commerce can best be leveraged against one another and collaborations built; and disseminate the results widely.