The International Conference on e-Business, ICE-B 2011, aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in e-Business technology and its current applications. The mentioned technology relates not only to more low-level technological issues, such as technology platforms and web services, but also to some higher-level issues, such as context awareness and enterprise models, and also the peculiarities of different possible applications of such technology. These are all areas of theoretical and practical importance within the broad scope of e-Business, whose growing importance can be seen from the increasing interest of the IT research community.

The areas of the current conference are: (i) e-Business applications; (ii) Enterprise engineering; (iii) Mobility; (iv) Business collaboration and e-Services; (v) Technology platforms, and we look forward to receiving submissions (both research-driven and of a more practical nature) that reflect innovative results in the mentioned areas.

Authors are encouraged to submit their work on technology-driven enterprise solutions (with a stress on the telecommunication technology), which can either represent a more engineering-related contribution or be more business application-oriented. Papers describing new (software development) methods or technological IT solutions, as well as papers introducing tools or presenting advanced prototypes and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged - papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas and sub-areas listed below.
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 in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

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 holding a tutorial, or companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies, are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

• › Applications
  
• › Enterprise Engineering
  
• › Mobility
  
• › Collaboration and e-Services
  
• › Technology Platforms
  

• › Banking/Finance
  
• › Education/Learning
  
• › Entertainment
  
• › Government
  
• › Health Care/Well-being
  
• › Industrial
  
• › Urban/Regional Planning/Development
  

• › Architectures
  
• › B2C/B2B Considerations
  
• › Business Performance
  
• › Business Process
  
• › Business-IT Alignment
  
• › Enterprise Models
  
• › Integration
  
• › Interoperability
  
• › Ontologies
  

• › Context-Awareness
  
• › Information Quality
  
• › m-Business Models
  
• › Mobile Architectures
  
• › Mobile User Interfaces
  
• › Trust/Security/Protection
  

• › Collaborative Systems
  
• › Pragmatic Web
  
• › Quality-of-Service
  
• › Semantic Web
  
• › Social Networks
  
• › Ubiquity
  
• › Usability
  
• › Virtual Worlds
  
• › Web Services
  

• › Cloud Technology
  
• › Generic Platforms
  
• › Grid Computing
  
• › Middleware Platforms
  
• › Service-Oriented Architectures
  
• › Transactional Architectures
  
• › Future Directions
  

ICE-B 2011 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICE-B 2006, 2007 and 2008. Proceedings of ICE-B 2009 and 2010 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICE-B 2011 will be considered by EI after their publication.

Conference date: 18-21 July, 2011

Regular Paper Submission: February 3, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 16, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 5, 2011

ICE-B Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5432
e-mail: ice-b.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.ice-b.icete.org/

Available soon.

David A. Marca, University of Phoenix, U.S.A.
Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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