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Call for Papers - FinanceCom 2012 - www.financecom.org; Enterprise
Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, Barcelona 10th
June 2012
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Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the
way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the
financial services industry. FinanceCom 2012 invites papers that help to
under-stand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and
opportunities. After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney,
Regensburg, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt, FinanceCom 2012 will be
co-located with ECIS 2012 in Barcelona on 10th June 2012. The workshop spans
multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological
and behavioral sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines,
as well as cross-disciplinary work. We are open to various levels of
analysis and methodology. 

The topics of interest in this research area include but are not limited to:

-Services (Service-Oriented Computing and Architectures in Finance, Banking
and Insurance, Business Value of Service-Oriented Architectures,
Service-Oriented Modeling) 

-Networks and business models (Technology-Driven Transformation of the
Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks, Business process
outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems, New e-Finance business
models enabled by IT) 

-Financial Markets (Electronic Markets Design and Engineering, Algorithmic
and High Frequency Trading / Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures,
Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets e.g. MiFiD, EMIR or Dodd-Frank)

-Standardization (Financial Business Process Standardization and
standardized service modules, Interoperability of heterogeneous financial
systems and evolving international standards, Synergetic usage of IFRS -IAS-
and Basel II implementations in bank management)

-IT and implementations (Role of new technologies e.g. Web Services and Grid
Computing, Implementation experiences and case studies, Enabling decision
support systems in banking and financial markets)

-Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks / banking and market
performance (Agent-based Computational Economics -ACE-, Other simulation and
evaluation approaches)

Important Dates:
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*** Submission deadline:	********* EXTENDED 2nd April 2012
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*** Notification of authors:	28th April 2012 
*** Deadline revision: 		15th May 2012

Submission and Publication Details
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Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages via Springer's Online
Conference Service (OCS). We plan to publish best papers as a post
proceedings book in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing series. Further details about the submission process can be found
on www.financecom.org

Conference Chairs
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Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales 
Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, E-Finance Lab