ICE-B 2008 - International Conference on E-business


[Scope] [Conference Areas] [Area 1: Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures] [Area 2 : Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services] [Area 3 : Business and Social Applications] [Keynotes] [Paper Submission] [Publications] [Important Deadlines] [Secretariat] [Conference Co-Chairs] [Program Chair] [Program Committee]
	ICE-B is organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication SCOPE The purpose of ICE-B 2008, the International Conference on e-Business, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in information systems methods and applications in the context of e-business. e-Business is a research area of growing importance, encompassing several areas of theoretical and practical importance. Therefore, we look forward to receive research work and applications on innovative aspects of several areas related to e-Business, including: “Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures”, “Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services” and “Business and Social Applications”. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining information systems and communication technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICE-B, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer. Special sessions, case-studies and tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics related to the main conference are also envisaged: researchers interested in organizing a special session, or companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Additional information can be found at http://www.ice-b.org. CONFERENCE AREAS The conference areas are expanded below but the list of topics is not exhaustive. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, or unlisted but related topics, provided they fit in one of the conference areas: Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services Business and Social Applications Area 1: Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures Network and Service Management Telematics and Middleware Platforms Interoperability and Integration Agent-Oriented Information Systems Multi-Agent Systems and Information Integration Grid Computing for e-Business Service-Oriented Architectures Security and Privacy Open Source Technologies in e-Business VPN Technology and Services B2B, B2C and C2C Architectures Data Warehouses and Data Mining Data and Knowledge Engineering XML and Domain Mark-up Languages Web Site Monitoring and Optimization Area 2 : Web and Mobile Business Systems and Services Portals Web Services Mobile Services and Architectures m-Business and Ubiquitous Services Systems Development and Evaluation Quality of Service (QoS) and Metrics e-Business Systems for Multiple Platforms e-Negotiation and Auction Mechanisms e-Payment Systems Web Personalization and Decision Making Web Data Visualization User Interfaces and Usability GPS Applications and Location-based Services Case Studies in Industry and Government Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks Area 3 : Business and Social Applications e-Learning e-Government e-Banking e-Entertainment Healthcare and Medical Applications Virtual Organizations Collaborative Business Systems Supply-chain Management CRM and Business Solutions Workflow Management Systems e-Marketing and Consumer Behavior Intellectual Rights Trust and Privacy Issues in Social Networks Semantic Web Applications and Ontology Sharing Adoption of Standards and Protocols for e-Business Applications KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - David A. Marca, UOP Online Faculty and Madison, Wisconsin Faculty, United States - Yaakov Kogan, AT&T Labs, United States - Frank Leyman, University of Stuttgart, Germany SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit a complete paper in English of up to 8 A4 pages, using the submission procedure indicated below. The program committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will be notified of the result, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the conference track to which the paper is submitted. The paper must be carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Paper submission procedure: 1. A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file. 2. The contact author will then use the ICE-B web-based submission facility available at the conference web site, http://www.ice-b.org/ to enter the contact information of all paper authors plus the file indicated in point 1, above. The facility will automatically send a submission acknowledgement, by email, to the author indicated as "contact author". Please contact the secretariat if no acknowledgement is received. If the author is unable to use the web-based procedure then he/she can send the paper by e-mail to the secretariat attaching an additional file containing: the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details, a list of keywords and an abstract. Authors must also indicate the conference area (including the topics), to which the paper is submitted. The camera-ready format will be enforced only for accepted papers, but authors are encouraged to use it also for paper submissions, in order to reduce extra work later. Two templates are provided at the conference web site: one for Latex and another for MS Word. Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be limited to 8 (eight) pages for long oral presentations, 6 (six) for short oral presentations (progress reports) and 4 (four) for poster presentations. If absolutely needed, the number of pages may be increased up to a maximum of 12 (long presentations), 10 (short presentations) and 8 (poster presentations). However, for each page in excess of the maximum allowed, the author will have to pay an additional fee. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer-Verlag. The proceedings will be indexed by ISI Proceedings, INSPEC and DBLP. EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICE-B 2006. Proceedings of ICE-B 2007 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICE-B 2008 will be evaluated by EI after their publication. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full Paper Submission: (deadline expired) Position Paper Submission: (deadline expired) Full Author Notification: (deadline expired) Position Paper Notification: (deadline expired) Final Paper Submission and Registration: (deadline expired) Conference Date: 26-29 July 2008 SECRETARIAT ICE-B Secretariat Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq, 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +44 203 014 5432 E-mail: secretariat@ice-b.org Web: http://www.ice-b.org VENUE Overlooking the Douro River, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities, It was born and developed from the northern bank of this river during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Joaquim Filipe (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal) Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth University, U.S.A.) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Boris Shishkov (University of Twente, The Netherlands) David A. Marca (University of Phoenix, U.S.A.) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Geetha Abeysinghe, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Sarmad Alshawi, Brunel University, United Kingdom Panagiotes Anastasiades, University of Crete, Greece Jos� Luis Arjona, University of Huelva, Spain Anteneh Ayanso, Brock University, Canada Gilbert Babin, HEC Montréal, Canada Ladjel Belllatreche, Poitiers University, France Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Hans Bjornsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Peter Bodorik, Dalhousie University, Canada Indranil Bose, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rongzeng Cao, IBM China Research Lab, China Barbara Carminati, Univeristy of Insubria, Italy Teuta Cata, Northern Kentucky University, United States Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Patrick Y.K. Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Michael Chau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Harry Chen, Image Matters LLC/University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, United States Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid, Spain Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy George Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia Claudia Diaz, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Canada, Canada Jinan Fiaidhi, Lakehead University, Canada Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University, United States George Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany Haresh Gurnani, University of Miami, United States Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France Milena Head, McMaster University, Canada Vlatka Hlupic, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Birgit Hofreiter, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Andreas Holzinger, IMI, Research Unit HCI, Med.Uni Graz, Austria Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States Nallani Iyengar, Vellore Institute of Technology University, India James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, United States Matjaz B. Juric, University of Maribor, Slovenia Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Kay Hooi Keoy, Bradford University School of Management, United Kingdom David Kreps, University of Salford, United Kingdom Anton Lavrin, The Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University, United States Dahui Li, University of Minnesota Duluth, United States Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China Chin Lin, South China University of Technology, China Tokuro Matsuo, Yamgataga University, Japan Jan Mendling, QUT Brisbane, Australia Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University, United States Adrian Mocan, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria Sabah Mohammed, Lakehead University, Canada Ali Reza Montazemi, McMaster University, Canada Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California, United States Georgios Papamichail, National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government, Greece Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Pascal Poncelet, LGI2P/EMA, France Pak-Lok Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Philippos Pouyioutas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Dimitris Rigas, University of Bradford, United Kingdom David Ruiz, University of Seville, Spain Jarogniew Rykowski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Hossein Sharifi, Liverpool University Management School, United Kingdom Quan Z. Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Mario Spremic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland York Sure, SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Germany Paula Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia Ramayah T., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Thompson Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, United Kingdom David Trastour, HP Labs, United Kingdom Roland Traunm�ller, University Linz, Austria Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tomas Vitvar, National University of Ireland, Ireland Adam Vrechopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, United States Jongwook Woo, California State University Los Angeles, United States Lai Xu, SAP Research, Switzerland Benjamin Yen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Guangquan Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia