MMT 2013 - 3rd Workshop on Modeling Multi-commodity Trade: Towards Smart Systems (MMT'13)

Market mechanisms, which are entering into new areas of human activities, and computer sciences offering the new possibilities, together create fantastic, challenging area of new research problems. Information systems play the crucial role for developing and running modern, smart market systems. The new areas of market system applications and the new requirements pose many open research problems, which are highly related to information management and ICTs, e.g. semantics issues in trading, architectures of information systems for market mechanisms, incorporating social networks into trade processes, data modeling for negotiations and bidding, market processes modeling and management, and many others.
These topics become even more challenging if trading of many related commodities is considered (multi-commodity trade). The main goal of the workshop is to address and discuss the most challenging computer sciences topics in a context of market systems. It intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current scientific and technological challenges in information systems supporting market mechanism.
Topics
Major interest is related to all computer science aspects in a context of market systems applications. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
Architectures of the trade information systems: Model-Driven Architectures, event processing
Methodologies for analysing and designing the trade information systems
Semantic information, ontologies in trade
Searching in a market environment
Smart agents, multi-agent technology
Learning in market systems
Business process modeling end execution for market processes, automated trade systems
Trade in social networks
Data processing on real-time markets
Security and privacy in information systems supporting market processes
Market designs modeling
Market processes modeling and transformations
Bidding languages
User interface design
Trade agent languages and communication, XML
Offers matching
Market systems simulations
Mobile commerce
Innovative applications of multi-commodity models