EC-Web 2008 Deadline Extension

Submission Deadline Extended to March 7, 2008 !!!

================= Call for Papers ==================

        9th International Conference on
   Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies

                 E C - W e b 2008

              September 1 - 5, 2008
                  Turin, Italy
     
               http://www.dexa.org

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A large number of organizations are exploiting the opportunities
offered by Internet-based technologies for electronic commerce and
electronic business. Companies sell and purchase via the Internet,
search engines and directories allow electronic market participants
around the globe to locate potential trading partners, and a set of
protocols and standards has been established to exchange goods and
services via the Internet. The Internet is changing the way companies
and organizations work, as well as the way people work and interact.
However, E-commerce and Web Technology is not mature yet, and numerous
technical issues need still to be resolved.
The main objective of the conference is to assess current methodologies
and new research directions in the field, by bringing together
researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, all
interested in developing and/or exploiting electronic commerce and/or
Web technologies.
We encourage papers that present innovative technical solutions for
classical E-Commerce issues, such as e-negotiation, recommender systems,
secure payment, as well as for new emerging areas, such as the semantic web,
applied web services, applied soft computing and information retrieval
techniques in web and/or e-commerce environments.
Although the conference is naturally focused on computer science issues,
we welcome and encourage research contributions from economics, business
administration, law, and other disciplines. In particular, papers about
web marketing and its non-technical aspects, as well as about social
aspects of e-commerce are encouraged.
We also welcome papers reporting about innovative applications and
case studies in the field of E-Commerce and/or Web Applications, like, e.g.,
Electronic Elections and Advertising.
EC-Web 2008 is organized by the DEXA Association in parallel with
DEXA 2008 (19th Int. Conference on Database and Expert Systems 
Applications).

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Suggested Topics
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The major topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Business Process Aspects
  - Business Process Modeling, Integration, and Monitoring
  - Transaction and Workflow Management
  - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  - Enterprise Application Integration
  - Interorganizational Systems
  - Standards for E-Commerce (ebXML, OWL, etc.)
  - Decision Support and Optimization in EC
  - Strategic and International Issues in EC
  - Formation of Supply Chains, Coalitions, Virtual Enterprises,
    Supplier Relationship Management
  - Ontologies for Goods, Products, Services, etc..

* E-Negotiation and Recommender Systems
  - Models, Techniques and Technology
  - Collaborative Filtering
  - Web Personalization
  - Intelligent User Interfaces
  - Auction Mechanisms
  - Bidding and Negotiation Technology

* Data and Knowledge Engineering in EC
  - Information Integration and Mediation
  - Data Mining and Data Warehouse, Knowledge Discovery
  - Web Data Visualization
  - Multimedia Data Issues, Stream Processing
  - Rule Languages and Rule Based Systems
  - Languages and tools for Ontologies
  - Tools in support of E-Commerce Standards (ebXML, etc.)

* Mobile and Pervasive Commerce in EC
  - Ubiquitous / Context-Aware Services
  - Location Based Services

* Quality Aspects in EC
  - Quality of Service: Performance, Security, Reliabilty, etc.
  - Web Data Quality Aspects
  - Usability Issues

* Web Marketing
  - Web Marketing Strategies
  - Effectiveness of web marketing strategies
  - Correlation between web Marketing Strategies and Web
    Systems
  - Customer Modeling
  - Customer Relationship Management
  - Web Site Monitoring, Customer Behavior, Web Usage Mining
  - Marketing and Advertising Technologies

* E-Payment, Security and Trust
  - Pricing and Metering of On-Demand Services
  - Electronic Contracting
  - Intellectual Property Rights, Legal and Privacy Issues
  - E-Elections and Related Technologies and Systems
  - Payment and Secure Technologies

* EC Infrastructure, Web Infrastructure and Basic Technologies
  - Content Management Systems
  - Semantic Web
  - Web Services Computing
  - P2P-Computing
  - Grid Computing
  - XML-enabled Technologies (WSDL, AJAX, etc.)
  - Repositories of XML documents
  - Soft COmputing Techniques
  - Search Engines
  - Information Retrieval Techniques

* Social Aspects of E-Commerce and Web Technologies
  - Impact on Day-by-Day work and work relationships
  - Impact on Day-by-Day private life and personal relationships


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Paper Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English,
following the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Duplicate submissions are not allowed and will be rejected
Papers should not exceed 10 pages (i.e. 10 LNCS formatted pages).
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
All accepted papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science"
(LNCS) by Springer Verlag. At least one author is required to attend the
conference and present the paper. For paper registration and electronic
submission please see http://www.dexa.org, starting in January 2008.
For further inquiries, please contact any of the program chairs or the
Conference Organisation Office ([email protected]).

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Important Dates
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* Submission of full papers:  March 7, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2008
* Camera-ready copies due:    June 10, 2008

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Program Committee Chairs
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Giuseppe Psaila, University of Bergamo, Italy
   ([email protected])
Roland Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria
   (rrwagner-29C1scf/+gH7q1aKQLRi27NldLUNz+W/@public.gmane.org)

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Conference Organization Office
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DEXA Association, Austria ([email protected])


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Program Committee
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Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal, CA
Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Sergio Alonso, University of Granada, Spain
Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University, South-Korea   and    Intl. 
University of Bruchsal, Germany
Manish Bhide, IBM India Research Lab, India
Sami Bhiri, DERI, Ireland
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Julián Briz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, UK
Byron Choi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Emmanuel Coquery, University Lyon 1, France
Arthur I. Csetenyi, Budapest Corvinus University, Hungary
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Radoslav Delina, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Alexander Delteil, Orange Labs - France Telecom, France
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Petr Doucek, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Maria Jose Escalona, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Pisa, Italy
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
George Feuerlicht, University of Technology Sidney, Australia
Ludger Fiege, Siemens, Germany
Carlos Flavian, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA
Eduard Cristóbal Fransi, University of Lleida, Spain
Yongjian Fu, Cleveland State University, USA
Walid Gaaloul, DERI, Ireland
Stephane Gagnon, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Csnada
Jing Gao, University of South Australia, Australia
Piotr Gawrysiak, Supermedia, Poland
Peter Geczy, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Chanan Glezer, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Claude Godart, UNiversity of Nancy & INRIA, France
Adnene Guabtni, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon 1, France
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Josef Herget, University of Chur, Switzerland
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, University of Granada, Spain
Yigal Hoffner, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
Birgit Hofreiter, University of Technology, Sidney, Australia
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Michael C. Jaeger, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Fabian Kaiser, Stuttgart University, Germany
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Gregory E. Kersten, Concordia University Montreal, Canada
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jan Klas, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA
Anton Lavrin, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Philipp Liegl, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Leszek T. Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA
Antonio Gabriel Lopez, University of Granada, Spain
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Olivera Marjanovic, University of Sydney, Australia
Mário Marques Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Luis Martínez Lopez, University of Jaen, Spain
Massimo Mecella, University of Rome LA SAPIENZA, Italy
Ralph Mietzner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
Carlos Molina-Jimenez, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Gero Muehl, TU Berlin, Germany
Guenter Mueller, University of Freiburg, Germany
Mieczyslaw Muraszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Dirk Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore
Ota Novotny, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Jan Paralic, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
Vicente Pelechano, Techical University of Valencia, Spain
GÃŒnther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Ilia Petrov, Technische UniversitÀt Darmstadt, Germany
Ivana Podnar Zarko, FER, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Birgit Proell, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
Azzurra Ragone, University of Michigan, USA
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Inmaculada Rodríguez-Ardura, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Michele Ruta, Policetnico di Bari, Italy
Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology,, Poland
Jarogniew Rykowski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Jarogniew Rykowski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Tomas Sabol, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Paolo Salvaneschi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Farzad Sanati, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Nandlal L. Sarda, Indian Institute of Tech. Bombay, India
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Thorsten Scheibler, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Eusebio Scornavacca, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Jens Strueker, University of Freiburg, Germany
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Bostonm USA
Roger M. Tagg, University of South Australia, Australia
Samir Tata, GET/INT CNRS Samovar, France
Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Tobias Unger, Stuttgart University, Germany
Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Willem Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada
Emilija Vuksanovic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Hannes Werthner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Branimir Wetzstein, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Janusz Wielki, Opole University of Technology, Poland
Marco Zapletal, Technical University of Vienna, Austria



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