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Special Tracks at the

16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web 
Technologies - EC-Web 2015
Valencia, Spain
September 1 - 2, 2015

*New Deadline (Papers and Extended Abstracts): June 1st*

Background, Aims and Scope

EC-Web is an international scientific conference series devoted to 
technology related aspects of e-Commerce and e-Business. The 16th 
edition of the conference, EC-Web 2015, will take place in Valencia, 
Spain in September 2015 and will serve as a forum to bring together 
researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in 
their fields. We solicit original scientific contributions in the 
following areas:

     Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems
     Preference representation and reasoning
     Semantic-based Systems, Ontologies and Linked Data
     Agent-based Systems, Negotiation and Auctions
     Social Web and Social Media in E-Commerce
     Computational Advertising
     E-commerce Infrastructures and Cloud-based Services
     Service modellin and engineering
     Business Processes, Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
     E-Business Architectures
     Emerging Business Models, Software as a Service, Mobile Services
     Security, Privacy and Trust
     Case Studies


Special Tracks:


T1) Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems (Track chair: Tommaso Di 
Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

In the Web era, resource retrieval techniques play a fundamental role in 
helping the users to deal with the issues related to information 
overload. Today's search engines as well as matchmaking systems are no 
more working solely on pure text/keyword analysis. Their results are 
computed and enriched by putting together, e.g., link-based data, user 
preferences as well as information encoded in the so called knowledge 
graphs. The same happens for personalized information filtering systems, 
such as recommender systems, where pure collaborative and content-based 
approaches are hybridized with each other, combined and fed by many 
different and diverse data sources in order to improve not only the 
accuracy of the results but also their novelty, diversity, and serendipity.


T2) Linked Data and Semantic Web (Track chair: Asunción Gómez Pérez, UPM 
Madrid, Spain)

Semantic Web Technologies, in particular data markup standards provide 
an established means for publishing and partially exchanging structured 
data on the web. Large numbers of websites have started to markup their 
content using standards such as Microdata, Microformats, and RDFa 
allowing search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! use the markup to 
improve their search results. MeanwhileAt the same time, this is widely 
used in the e-commerce area where structured product offers descriptions 
are published online and sometimes even linked to general purpose 
schemas such as schema.org and or product classifications such as 
eClass. Theis special track ius concerned with methods, tools, and 
analyseis covering the life-cycle of structured descriptions for 
e-commerce on the web including their creation, maintenance, integration 
and use.

T3) Service Modelling and Engineering (Track chair: Jorge Cardoso, 
University of Coimbra, Portugal) Service-oriented systems are becoming 
pervasive in business. Cloud services, Web APIs, and process models are 
examples of building blocks, which can be assembled combined to 
implement service systems. While previous past approaches often relied 
on SOA patterns to architect systems, we can nowadays observe an 
increased there is the need now to provide theories, techniques, and 
tools to support service engineering in order to be able to to develop 
superior more effective and efficient services. This track will present 
focuses on current research on in the fields of service modeling (e.g., 
SLA, pricing models, legal terms, standardization efforts, process 
models), service analytics (e.g., capacity planning, metered usage, 
service compliance, performance optimization, reliability prediction), 
and frameworks to compose services (e.g., Cloud BPM and end-to-end 
integration).

T4) Social Web and E-Commerce (Track chair: Conor Hayes, DERI, Ireland)

The sSocial wWeb has become an important platform for activities 
connected to online e-commerce on the web. Social networks, review sites 
and blogs have become important places to market products and analyze 
their reception by lareger groups of customers. Thus, methods for 
creating and analyzing user behaviour and interaction on the sSocial 
wWeb becomes more and more increasingly important. Topics of interest in 
this context special track include targeted advertisement, opinion 
mining and sentiment analysis as well as trust and reputation mechanisms 
in social online social networks and their impact on user behaviour.

T5) Agents-based E-Commerce Systems (Track chair: Terry R. Payne, 
University of Liverpool, UK)

The use of personal agents in e-Ccommerce settings comes with many 
advantages as it enables customers to monitor offers and place purchase 
orders or bids without having to be online constantly. In particular in 
setting s with multiple buyers and sellers, the agent-metaphor provides 
an adequate model to provide automatic support for market participants. 
This special trakckc is concerned with the use of multi-agent technology 
in e-commerce and the topics include: agent architectures, communication 
protocols, and negotiation mechanisms for performing e-commerce business 
transactions on the web. We are interested in theoretical papers as well 
as in reports on practical implementations of agent-based e-commerce 
systems .on the web.

T6) Open Track

This track is open to submission concerning any topic related to the 
intersection of e-commerce and web technology not covered by any of the 
above mentioned tracks. Depending on the topic of the paper and the 
availability of reviewers, the pProgramm chairs will take the freedom to 
forward assign papers to a special track if in case it fits there.

T7) PhD Track

In this track we especially encourage submissions on early results by 
first and second year PhD students. The papers should present the PhD 
topic project outline of the candidate including and cover the Problem 
Statement, the State of the Art, and Pplanned cContribution as well as 
information on first results achieved. Reviewers will be instructed to 
treat evaluate these papers different thant full research papers and 
provide as much constructive feedback as much as possible. The first 
author of papers submitted to this track has to be a PhD Student.
Paper Submission, Selection and Publication

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers 
at http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2015

The manuscripts are limited to 12 pages using the Springer LNBIP style 
sheet: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

Authors may also submit extended abstracts of full papers with a length 
of 4-6 pages. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will be asked to 
provide full papers for final review and inclusion in the proceedings in 
autumn 2015

The selection of papers will be based on a peer-review process by 
selected international experts. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at 
least 3 reviewers. The proceedings will be published as post-conference 
proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information 
Processing (LNBIP) series.
Selected papers will get the opportunity to submit to a fast track 
review process in teh Journal on Data Semantics.



IMPORTANT DATES

     Submission of full papers: June 1st, 2015
     Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2015
     Camera-ready copies due: tba.

ORGANIZATION
Conference Program Chairpersons:

     Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
     Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany

Senior Program Committee

     Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
     Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
     Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
     Conor Hayes, DERI, Ireland
     Terry R. Payne, University of Liverpool, UK

Program Committee:
Ardissono, Liliana (University of Torino, Italy, Italy)
Bae, Joonsoo (Chonbuk National Universiry, Korea, Rep.)
Basile, Pierpaolo (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Bellogín, Alejandro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Breslin, John (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
Bridge, Derek (University College Cork, Ireland)
Burke, Robin (De Paul University, USA, United States)
Camarinha-Matos, Luis M. (Universidade Nova de Lisboa + Uninova, Portugal)
Cardoso, Jorge (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Cena, Federica (University of Turin, Italy, Italy)
Cremonesi, Paolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Dabrowski, Maciej (Altocloud.com, Ireland)
de Gemmis, Marco (University of Bari, Aldo Moro , Italy)
De Luca, Ernesto William (FH Potsdam, Germany)
Di Noia, Tommaso (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Felfernig, Alexander (Graz University of Technology, Austria, Austria)
Ferreira, Catarina (University of Lyon, France)
Filipe, Araujo (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
García, José María (University of Sevilla, Spain)
Gasparetti, Fabio (Roma Tre University, Italy, Italy)
Gomadam, Karthik (Accenture Technology Labs)
Gómez-Pérez, Asunción (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Hayes, Conor (Insight at NUI Galway, Ireland)
Heitmann, Benjamin (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, Ireland)
Jae-Yoon, Jung (Kyung Hee University)
Jannach, Dietmar (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Kumar, Akhil (Penn State University)
Manfred, Reichert (Ulm University, Germany)
Margaria, Tiziana (University Potsdam, Germany)
Mendling, Jan (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Middleton, Stuart E. (University of Southampton, UK, United Kingdom)
Missier, Paolo (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Monica, Dragoicea (Politehnica University of Bucharest)
Musto, Cataldo (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
Narducci, Fedelucio (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Ostuni, Vito Claudio (Mandora Media, Inc., United States)
Panniello, Umberto (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Passant, Alexander (Seevl.fm, Ireland)
Payne, Terry R. (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Pinto, Alexandre Miguel (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Ricci, Francesco (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, Italy)
Rowe, Matthew (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Sebastian, Götz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Semeraro, Giovanni (Univeristy of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy, Italy)
Spillner, Josef (TU Dresden, Germany)
Stefan, Jablonski (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Stuckenschmidt, Heiner (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Telang, Pankaj (Cisco Systems, United States)
Vagan, Terziyan (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Vidal, Maria Esther (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)
Vieira, Marco (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Vitvar, Tomas (Oracle, Czech Republic)
Zanker, Markus (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)

-- 
Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Data- and Web Science Research Group
University of Mannheim
B6, 26 68159 Mannheim
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
Tel.: +49 621 181 2530


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    Special Tracks at the
    <br>
    <br>
    16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web
    Technologies - EC-Web 2015
    <br>
    Valencia, Spain
    <br>
    September 1 - 2, 2015
    <br>
    <br>
    <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>New
      Deadline (Papers and Extended Abstracts): June 1st<span
        class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
    <br>
    <br>
    Background, Aims and Scope
    <br>
    <br>
    EC-Web is an international scientific conference series devoted to
    technology related aspects of e-Commerce and e-Business. The 16th
    edition of the conference, EC-Web 2015, will take place in Valencia,
    Spain in September 2015 and will serve as a forum to bring together
    researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances
    in their fields. We solicit original scientific contributions in the
    following areas:
    <br>
    <br>
        Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems
    <br>
        Preference representation and reasoning
    <br>
        Semantic-based Systems, Ontologies and Linked Data
    <br>
        Agent-based Systems, Negotiation and Auctions
    <br>
        Social Web and Social Media in E-Commerce
    <br>
        Computational Advertising
    <br>
        E-commerce Infrastructures and Cloud-based Services
    <br>
        Service modellin and engineering
    <br>
        Business Processes, Web Services and Service-Oriented
    Architectures
    <br>
        E-Business Architectures
    <br>
        Emerging Business Models, Software as a Service, Mobile Services
    <br>
        Security, Privacy and Trust
    <br>
        Case Studies
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    Special Tracks:
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    T1) Search, Comparison and Recommender Systems (Track chair: Tommaso
    Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
    <br>
    <br>
    In the Web era, resource retrieval techniques play a fundamental
    role in helping the users to deal with the issues related to
    information overload. Today's search engines as well as matchmaking
    systems are no more working solely on pure text/keyword analysis.
    Their results are computed and enriched by putting together, e.g.,
    link-based data, user preferences as well as information encoded in
    the so called knowledge graphs. The same happens for personalized
    information filtering systems, such as recommender systems, where
    pure collaborative and content-based approaches are hybridized with
    each other, combined and fed by many different and diverse data
    sources in order to improve not only the accuracy of the results but
    also their novelty, diversity, and serendipity.
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    T2) Linked Data and Semantic Web (Track chair: Asunción Gómez Pérez,
    UPM Madrid, Spain)
    <br>
    <br>
    Semantic Web Technologies, in particular data markup standards
    provide an established means for publishing and partially exchanging
    structured data on the web. Large numbers of websites have started
    to markup their content using standards such as Microdata,
    Microformats, and RDFa allowing search engines like Google, Bing,
    and Yahoo! use the markup to improve their search results.
    MeanwhileAt the same time, this is widely used in the e-commerce
    area where structured product offers descriptions are published
    online and sometimes even linked to general purpose schemas such as
    schema.org and or product classifications such as eClass. Theis
    special track ius concerned with methods, tools, and analyseis
    covering the life-cycle of structured descriptions for e-commerce on
    the web including their creation, maintenance, integration and use.
    <br>
    <br>
    T3) Service Modelling and Engineering (Track chair: Jorge Cardoso,
    University of Coimbra, Portugal) Service-oriented systems are
    becoming pervasive in business. Cloud services, Web APIs, and
    process models are examples of building blocks, which can be
    assembled combined to implement service systems. While previous past
    approaches often relied on SOA patterns to architect systems, we can
    nowadays observe an increased there is the need now to provide
    theories, techniques, and tools to support service engineering in
    order to be able to to develop superior more effective and efficient
    services. This track will present focuses on current research on in
    the fields of service modeling (e.g., SLA, pricing models, legal
    terms, standardization efforts, process models), service analytics
    (e.g., capacity planning, metered usage, service compliance,
    performance optimization, reliability prediction), and frameworks to
    compose services (e.g., Cloud BPM and end-to-end integration).
    <br>
    <br>
    T4) Social Web and E-Commerce (Track chair: Conor Hayes, DERI,
    Ireland)
    <br>
    <br>
    The sSocial wWeb has become an important platform for activities
    connected to online e-commerce on the web. Social networks, review
    sites and blogs have become important places to market products and
    analyze their reception by lareger groups of customers. Thus,
    methods for creating and analyzing user behaviour and interaction on
    the sSocial wWeb becomes more and more increasingly important.
    Topics of interest in this context special track include targeted
    advertisement, opinion mining and sentiment analysis as well as
    trust and reputation mechanisms in social online social networks and
    their impact on user behaviour.
    <br>
    <br>
    T5) Agents-based E-Commerce Systems (Track chair: Terry R. Payne,
    University of Liverpool, UK)
    <br>
    <br>
    The use of personal agents in e-Ccommerce settings comes with many
    advantages as it enables customers to monitor offers and place
    purchase orders or bids without having to be online constantly. In
    particular in setting s with multiple buyers and sellers, the
    agent-metaphor provides an adequate model to provide automatic
    support for market participants. This special trakckc is concerned
    with the use of multi-agent technology in e-commerce and the topics
    include: agent architectures, communication protocols, and
    negotiation mechanisms for performing e-commerce business
    transactions on the web. We are interested in theoretical papers as
    well as in reports on practical implementations of agent-based
    e-commerce systems .on the web.
    <br>
    <br>
    T6) Open Track
    <br>
    <br>
    This track is open to submission concerning any topic related to the
    intersection of e-commerce and web technology not covered by any of
    the above mentioned tracks. Depending on the topic of the paper and
    the availability of reviewers, the pProgramm chairs will take the
    freedom to forward assign papers to a special track if in case it
    fits there.
    <br>
    <br>
    T7) PhD Track
    <br>
    <br>
    In this track we especially encourage submissions on early results
    by first and second year PhD students. The papers should present the
    PhD topic project outline of the candidate including and cover the
    Problem Statement, the State of the Art, and Pplanned cContribution
    as well as information on first results achieved. Reviewers will be
    instructed to treat evaluate these papers different thant full
    research papers and provide as much constructive feedback as much as
    possible. The first author of papers submitted to this track has to
    be a PhD Student.
    <br>
    Paper Submission, Selection and Publication
    <br>
    <br>
    Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research
    papers at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2015">http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2015</a>
    <br>
    <br>
    The manuscripts are limited to 12 pages using the Springer LNBIP
    style sheet: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0</a>
    <br>
    <br>
    Authors may also submit extended abstracts of full papers with a
    length of 4-6 pages. Authors of accepted extended abstracts will be
    asked to provide full papers for final review and inclusion in the
    proceedings in autumn 2015
    <br>
    <br>
    The selection of papers will be based on a peer-review process by
    selected international experts. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by
    at least 3 reviewers. The proceedings will be published as
    post-conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in
    Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
    <br>
    Selected papers will get the opportunity to submit to a fast track
    review process in teh Journal on Data Semantics.
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    IMPORTANT DATES
    <br>
    <br>
        Submission of full papers: June 1st, 2015
    <br>
        Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2015
    <br>
        Camera-ready copies due: tba.
    <br>
    <br>
    ORGANIZATION
    <br>
    Conference Program Chairpersons:
    <br>
    <br>
        Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
    <br>
        Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
    <br>
    <br>
    Senior Program Committee
    <br>
    <br>
        Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
    <br>
        Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
    <br>
        Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    <br>
        Conor Hayes, DERI, Ireland
    <br>
        Terry R. Payne, University of Liverpool, UK
    <br>
    <br>
    Program Committee:
    <br>
    Ardissono, Liliana (University of Torino, Italy, Italy)
    <br>
    Bae, Joonsoo (Chonbuk National Universiry, Korea, Rep.)
    <br>
    Basile, Pierpaolo (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
    <br>
    Bellogín, Alejandro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
    <br>
    Breslin, John (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
    <br>
    Bridge, Derek (University College Cork, Ireland)
    <br>
    Burke, Robin (De Paul University, USA, United States)
    <br>
    Camarinha-Matos, Luis M. (Universidade Nova de Lisboa + Uninova,
    Portugal)
    <br>
    Cardoso, Jorge (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
    <br>
    Cena, Federica (University of Turin, Italy, Italy)
    <br>
    Cremonesi, Paolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
    <br>
    Dabrowski, Maciej (Altocloud.com, Ireland)
    <br>
    de Gemmis, Marco (University of Bari, Aldo Moro , Italy)
    <br>
    De Luca, Ernesto William (FH Potsdam, Germany)
    <br>
    Di Noia, Tommaso (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
    <br>
    Felfernig, Alexander (Graz University of Technology, Austria,
    Austria)
    <br>
    Ferreira, Catarina (University of Lyon, France)
    <br>
    Filipe, Araujo (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
    <br>
    García, José María (University of Sevilla, Spain)
    <br>
    Gasparetti, Fabio (Roma Tre University, Italy, Italy)
    <br>
    Gomadam, Karthik (Accenture Technology Labs)
    <br>
    Gómez-Pérez, Asunción (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
    <br>
    Hayes, Conor (Insight at NUI Galway, Ireland)
    <br>
    Heitmann, Benjamin (INSIGHT@NUI Galway, Ireland)
    <br>
    Jae-Yoon, Jung (Kyung Hee University)
    <br>
    Jannach, Dietmar (TU Dortmund, Germany)
    <br>
    Kumar, Akhil (Penn State University)
    <br>
    Manfred, Reichert (Ulm University, Germany)
    <br>
    Margaria, Tiziana (University Potsdam, Germany)
    <br>
    Mendling, Jan (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
    <br>
    Middleton, Stuart E. (University of Southampton, UK, United Kingdom)
    <br>
    Missier, Paolo (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
    <br>
    Monica, Dragoicea (Politehnica University of Bucharest)
    <br>
    Musto, Cataldo (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
    <br>
    Narducci, Fedelucio (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
    <br>
    Ostuni, Vito Claudio (Mandora Media, Inc., United States)
    <br>
    Panniello, Umberto (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
    <br>
    Passant, Alexander (Seevl.fm, Ireland)
    <br>
    Payne, Terry R. (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
    <br>
    Pinto, Alexandre Miguel (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
    <br>
    Ricci, Francesco (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, Italy)
    <br>
    Rowe, Matthew (University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)
    <br>
    Sebastian, Götz (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
    <br>
    Semeraro, Giovanni (Univeristy of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy, Italy)
    <br>
    Spillner, Josef (TU Dresden, Germany)
    <br>
    Stefan, Jablonski (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
    <br>
    Stuckenschmidt, Heiner (University of Mannheim, Germany)
    <br>
    Telang, Pankaj (Cisco Systems, United States)
    <br>
    Vagan, Terziyan (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
    <br>
    Vidal, Maria Esther (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)
    <br>
    Vieira, Marco (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
    <br>
    Vitvar, Tomas (Oracle, Czech Republic)
    <br>
    Zanker, Markus (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Data- and Web Science Research Group 
University of Mannheim
B6, 26 68159 Mannheim
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de">http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de</a>
Tel.: +49 621 181 2530</pre>
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