---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: E-commerce Conference -- Skill Sets for the E-Commerce Professional Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:33:57 +1100 From: Andrew Wenn Andrew.Wenn@VU.EDU.AU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

The School of Information Systems of Victoria University and Business Information Systems at RMIT are pleased to announce that they are running an e-commerce conference in Melbourne in July.

As you will see in the Call for Papers below, this will be a fully refereed academic conference with a published proceedings. The location is still to be finalised, but will be in the Melbourne CBD.

The conference topic is 'Skill Sets for the E-Commerce Professional' and the deadline for submission is, of necessity, short - 15th April.

----- Call for Papers ----

Skill Sets for the E-Commerce Professional: SSECP-2001

14th-15th June 2001, Melbourne CBD

The conference will be sponsored jointly by Victoria University e-Commerce Research Unit

and RMIT School of Business Information Technology

The rapidly growing use of Electronic Commerce applications on the World-Wide-Web is apparent to all. Successful use of e-Commerce requires many changes to business practices and relationships in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments. For someone working in an e-Commerce environment certain skills are required, but what exactly are they? Are old skill sets applicable in this new environment? Do they need to be adapted or updated? What new skills need to be developed? This conference will address issues such as this.

Researchers are invited to submit a full-length paper on this topic of about 3,000 words (but not exceeding 4,000 words). Multidisciplinary papers on the conference theme are most welcome. Papers must be original, and previously unpublished, and include a 100-200 word abstract. They may address theory, research, and applications, as well as describe guidelines or relevant projects. All papers should be grounded in current research and literature.

Given the theme of the conference, papers will only be accepted in electronic form. They must be in Word 2000 (or earlier, or RTF) format and should be emailed to: Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au by 15th April 2001.

All papers will be double blind, peer refereed. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 7th May and sent formatting guidelines for the final paper to be published in the conference proceedings. Papers will only be published if at least one of their authors registers for and attends the conference. It is also intended that a selection of high-quality papers from the conference will be assembled into a research book to be published after the conference by Heidelberg Press.

Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to:

Skills needed by IT professionals working in e-Commerce

How much do IT professionals need to know about e-business?

What development skills are needed?

Skills needed by general business users of e-Commerce systems.

How much technical expertise do general business users need to have?

Is there an appropriate mix of business and technical skills?

e-Commerce skill-set and curriculum development issues including:

Development of Undergraduate and Postgraduate e-Commerce courses.

New methods for the delivery of e-Commerce courses.

Other means of developing e-commerce skill sets.

Requirements of particular groups of e-Commerce users.

Anticipated requirements for future e-Commerce skills.

Research issues related to the conference theme.

Important dates:

Submission of full paper (electronic form) 15th April

Approval/disapproval 7th May

Final (amended) copy required for proceedings 21st May

Conference dates 14th-15th June

For further information contact:

Dr Arthur Tatnall Director, e-Commerce Research Unit School of Information Systems, Victoria University, PO Box 14428 Melbourne City MC, Melbourne 8001 email: Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au

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