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         IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'04)

     July 6-9, 2004, Westin Hotel, San Diego, California, USA
                http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec04
 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Electronic Commerce
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology


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IEEE CEC'04 is the 6th annual event (formerly WECWIS) and the primary forum
for the exchange of information regarding advancements in the state of the
art and practice of e-commerce technology and Web-based information systems.


CEC'04 will consist of tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations, panel
discussions and workshops. Submissions of high quality papers describing
mature results or innovative work are invited.

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

* Business process integration and management
* Business intelligence, decision support and data mining in e-commerce
* E-Commerce architecture and enabling technologies
* E-procurement and auction systems
* Grid services and service-oriented software architectures
* Intelligent e-commerce system & agents
* Multimedia web services & applications
* P2P & its application in e-commerce
* QoS e-commerce support & monitoring
* Real-time Internet technologies and scheduling protocols
* Security & trust issues in e-commerce
* Transaction & work-flow management
* Web services & middleware


Submissions and Important Dates:
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Full papers must not exceed 12 pages printed using at least 11-point type
and single spacing. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format
(PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which
includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's e-mail
address on a separate page. Authors should submit a full paper via
electronic submission at the conference homepage at
http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec04/. All papers selected for this conference
are peer-reviewed and will be published in the regular conference
proceedings with a CD-ROM version published by the IEEE Computer Society
Press. The best papers presented in the conference will be chosen for
publication in journals and books.

Papers due:                  January 10, 2004
Notification of acceptance:  March 25, 2004
Final papers due:            April 2, 2004
Conference date:             July 6-9, 2004

Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:
Mei-Chun Hsu, CommerceOne
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM

Program Chairs:
Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM

Industrial Chair:
Ramesh Rao, UCSD
Umesh Dayal, HP

Publication Chair:
Sang Hyuk Son, Univ of  Virginia

Workshop Chair:
Simon Shim, SJSU

Publicity Chair:
Andreas Wombacher, Frauenhofer Institute
Sviatoslav Braynov, Univ. at Buffalo

Tutorial Chair:
Karl Aberer, EPFL

WIP Chair:
Peter In, Korea University

Special Issue Chair:
Mike Shaw, UIUC

Steering Committee Chair and Special Tracks Chair:
Kwei-Jay Lin, UCI