EC-Web 2007 Call for Participation

        8th International Conference on
   Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies

                 E C - W e b 2007

              September 5 - 7, 2007
                  Regensburg, Germany
     
               http://www.dexa.org

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    Technical Program and Call for Participation
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The early registration deadline is July, 31 2007


Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Opening
09:15 - 09:30

Session 1 - Secutiry and Privacy
09:30 - 11:00

- A Secure Payment Protocol for Restricted Connectivity Scenarios in
in M-Commerce
     Jesús Téllez Isaac, José Sierra Cámara

- Using WPKI for Online Transaction Security
     Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire, Ayoub Shirvani

- X/PPX: a Lightweight Framework for Privacy Preserving P2P XML
Databases in 
       Very Large Publish-Subscribe Systems
     Angela Bonifati, Alfredo Cuzzocrea


Session 2 - Profiling and Customer Behaviour
14:00 - 15:30

- Usability Analysis Framework Based On Behavioral Segmentation
     Peter Geczy, Noriaki Izumi, Shotaro Akaho, Koiti Hasida

- Photo-Based User Profiling for Tourism Recommender Systems
     Helmut Berger, Michaela Denk, Michael Dittenbach, Andreas
Pesenhofer, Dieter Merkl

- Examining the Relationship Between Individual Characteristics,
Product characteristics, 
       and Media Richness Fit on Consumer Channel Preference
     Eric Brunelle, Josée Lapierre


Session 3 - Evaluation of E-Commerce Impact
16:00 - 17:30

- An Investigation into E-Commerce Adoption Profile for Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises in 
       Bury of Greater Manchester
     Baomin Qi, William McGilligan

- Analysis of Mobile and Pervasive Applications from a Corporate
Investment Perspective
     Daniel Simonovich


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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Session 4 - Recommender Systems and E-Negotiations
09:00 - 11:00

- Online Shopping Using a Two Dimensional Product Map 
     Martijn Kagie, Michiel van Wezel, Patrick J.F. Groenen

- Impact of Relevance Measures on the Robustness and Accuracy of
Collaborative Filtering
     JJ Sandvig, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke

- Capturing Buying Behavior Using a  Layered User Model
     Oshadi Alahakoon, Seng Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky

- Building Business Relationships With Negotiation
     John Debenham, Carles Sierra


Session 5 - Web Services
14:00 - 15:30

- Structural and Semantic Similarity Metrics for Web Service Matchmaking 
     Akin Gunay, Pinar Yolum

- Providing Methodological Support to Incorporate Presentation
Properties in the 
       Development of Web services
     Marta Ruiz, Pedro Valderas, Vicente Pelechano

- Object-Based Interactive Video Access for Consumer-Driven Advertising
     Guang-Ho Cha

 
Session 6 - E-Commerce and Organizations
16:00 - 17:30

- A Model of IT Evaluation Management: Organizational Characteristics,
IT Evaluation 
       Methodologies, and B2BEC Benefits
     Dr Chad Lin, Dr Yu-An Huang, Dr Wen-Bin Chuang

- Linking M-Business to Organizational Behavior Levels - a Mobile
Workforce Centered 
       Research Framework
     Daniel Simonovich

- DRLinda: A Distributed Message Broker For Collaborative Interactions
Among Business Processes
     Javier Fabra, Pedro Álvarez, Joaquín Ezpeleta

- Analyzing the influence of websites attributes on the choice of
newspapers on the Internet
     Carlos Flavian , Raquel Gurrea



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Friday, September 7, 2007
Session 7 - Web Marketing
09:00 - 11:00

- Prediction of Keyword Auction Using Bayesian Network
     Liwen Hou, Kang Li

- Impact of web experience on e-consumer responses
     Carlota Lorenzo, Efthymios Constantinides, Peter Geurts, Miguel
A. Gomez

- Consumer behavior in electronic commerce environments and fashion effect
     Dorin MILITARU


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