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Tenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008)
Innsbruck, Austria, August 18-22, 2008
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2nd Call for Papers
The adoption and ubiquity of modern Internet access provides rich and
varied opportunities for innovation and improvement of businesses.
Over recent years, developments have led to a shift in the way
business is conducted, from providing new and innovative service
frameworks for B2B, to increasingly sophisticated, Web 2.0 services to
improve the B2C user experience. Simultaneously, advances in the use
of devices, as well as AI techniques have provided better and more
varied access to e-commerce systems as well as facilitating greater
autonomy in the way business is conducted. The Internet offers unique
opportunities for individuals, businesses and governments to seek new
ways of providing novel services, both qualitatively and
quantitatively at substantially lower costs. Although many challenges
remain, advances in Service Oriented Architectures and Semantic Web
have opened up new models and avenues for research and exploitation.
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) provides a
forum to share invaluable experience of good practices and pitfalls in
strategy planning, design, development, engineering and implementation
of e-services. Now in its tenth year, it returns again to Austria,
after having been hosted in places as diverse as China, Canada, and
The Netherlands.
ICEC 2008 will feature
* invited keynote presentations
* panels on topical issues on technology, business and public policy
* refereed paper presentations on emerging and continuing research
issues
* tutorials and workshops in seven thematic tracks
* demonstration and posters
* an exhibition, and
* a doctoral consortium
The conference will be organized into several tracks, which focus on
the latest developments and innovations in e-commerce in the following
areas of interest:
1.Business-to-business e-commerce: adoption of IOS, technologies for
interoperable processes, and e-collaboration for global reach;
2.Business-to-consumer e-commerce: trends, problem areas, and
solutions with emphasis on emerging markets;
3.E-government, policy and law: state-of-the-art and future regulation
of e-commerce, including public strategies in limiting illicit
activities and copyright violations;
4.Business/Enterprise Architectures: state-of-the-art and strategies
for unifying extended enterprise resource base;
5.Mobile and pervasive commerce: alternative interaction metaphors
that facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to
users in novel environments;
6.Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent,
decentralized systems, that utilized AI-based and game-theoretic
approaches to facilitate both heuristic and theoretically sound
decision making;
7.Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services: decentralized knowledge-
based systems and methodologies that support the exchange of
information (including workflows, policies, services and ontological
knowledge) in dynamic and heterogeneous environments.
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality research papers
describing the latest research and developments in the above-mentioned
fields. Submissions encompassing other areas are welcome, but authors
are advised to contact program chairs to discuss relevance before
submission.
Instructions for Authors
Papers should not have been submitted for review, accepted for
publication, or already published elsewhere. All submitted papers will
be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance
and clarity. All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. Initial submissions for review should be no longer than
10 pages. Papers must be submitted in PDF, according to the ACM
Proceedings Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Workshop and Tutorials
Workshops and tutorials provide a useful channel to report on the
latest trends in e-commerce, to discuss challenges and achievements
and to inform others about cutting-edge technology and methods. They
are designed for both academia and industry, and include interactive
sessions wherein participants engage in collaborative learning, as
audience members can expect to be actively included in discussions and
debate during the sessions. Organizers are asked to submit a 5 page
proposal, including a description of topics / content, aims, envisaged
audience and agenda.
Doctoral Consortium
The Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together doctoral students
within the fields of e-commerce / e-business to open their work up to
discussion in an international forum, and to obtain feedback from
their fellow scientists with respect to both topic-specific research
issues and research methodology. Students will be asked to submit an
extended abstract, structured in accordance to a pre-defined template.
The focus is on the key methodological components required for a sound
research narrative. Priority will be given to 1st/2nd year PhD
students; as they are still in the process of defining the scope of
their research. However, all PhD students are welcome and encouraged
to apply.
Demonstration and Poster
ICEC hosts a demo track providing a stage for demonstrating cutting
edge applications in the field of electronic commerce. Demo
applications may comprise of academic prototypes as well as commercial
innovations from industry. The demo track takes place on one afternoon
during the conference. Submissions should describe the application in
no more than 2 pages. Accepted authors are expected to prepare a
poster depicting the application's functionality.
Important Dates
Electronic paper submission: March 14, 2008
Paper notification of acceptance: May 14, 2008
Camera-ready versions: June 13, 2008
Workshop / tutorial proposals: May 5, 2008
Workshop notification: June 13, 2008
Doctoral Consortium paper: May 5, 2008
Doctoral Consortium notification: June 9, 2008
Camera-ready versions: June 23, 2008
Demonstration / poster: May 5, 2008
Notification: June 13, 2008
Associated events: August 18, 2008
Conference dates: August 19-22, 2008
All submissions must be submitted electronically using the
conference's online submission and review system available at http://www.icec08.org/
, where detailed calls for the respective conference parts will be
available.
Organization
Conference Co-Chairs
* Dieter Fensel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), STI Innsbruck, Leopold-
Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria
* Hannes Werthner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Vienna University
of Technology, Austria
Academic Program Co-Chairs
* Jukka Heikkila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Department of Computer Science &
Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
* Terry Payne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), School of Electronics & Computer
Science, University of Southampton, UK
Responsible Track Chairs
1.Business-to-business e-commerce
* Robert Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), University of Melbourne,
Australia
* Kai Riemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Westfalische Wilhelms
University M¸nster, Germany
2.Business-to-consumer e-commerce
* Zhangxi Lin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Texas Tech University, Lubbock,
US, and Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu,
Sichuan, China
* Nikos Mylonopoulous ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), ALBA, Athens, Greece
3.E-government, policy and law
* Weiling Ke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), School of Business, Clarkson
University, New York, US
* Juha Laine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Helsinki University of
Technology, Finland
4.Business/Enterprise Architectures
* Lea Kutvonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Department of Computer
Science, Helsinki University, Finland
* Jorge Sanz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), IBM, Almaden, US
5.Mobile and pervasive commerce
* Ora Lassila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, MA,
USA
* Enrico Rukzio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Computing Department,
Lancaster University, UK
6.Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems
* Peyman Faratin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), MIT, Cambridge, MA
* Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), IIIA, Autonomous
University Barcelona, Spain
7.Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services
* Richard Benjamins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), iSOCO MADRID, Madrid, Spain
* David Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), SRI International, Santa Clara,
CA, USA
Organisational as well as Publicity and Sponsorship chair
* Peter Mirski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), MCI Innsbruck, Austria
Workshop Chair
* Marianna Sigala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), University of Aegean, Greece
Tutorial Chair
* Manfred Hauswirth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), DERI, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Doctoral Consortium Chair
* Elena Simperl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), STI Innsbruck, Leopold-
Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria
Demo and Poster Chair
* Marco Zapletal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Vienna University
of Technology, Austria
Industrial Liaison and Exhibition Chair
* Marcus Spiefl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), STI Innsbruck, Leopold-
Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria
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Terry R. Payne, PhD. | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~trp/index.html
School of Elec. & Comp Sci | Skype: cappuccinofreak [AIM:
drcaphreak]
University of Southampton | Voice: +44(0)23 8059 8343 [Fax:
8059 2865]
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
