---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Workshop on E-Commerce Platforms in Vienna, Sept. 2001 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:48:03 +0200 From: Ulrich Frank ulrich.frank@uni-koblenz.de To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Modelling Products and Protocols for Establishing Prices, Terms and Conditions for Electronic Commerce

Workshop within Informatics 2001, the Annual Conference of the German and Austrian Association for Computer Science (GI and OCG)

Vienna, Sept. 26 - 28, 2001

http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~iwi/informatik2001.html

C A L L F O R P A P E R S

Subject

Electronic commerce demands the reorganisation of business processes, both within and external to the individual organisation. This reorganisation normally occurs in conjunction with and enabled by powerful, often telecommunications-based, information systems. While the numerous well-established theories of business management and information systems may, perhaps, be partially relied on, there are many specific demands in the design of specialized systems which reflect issues that are not well-understood. One of the key challenges is the development of powerful abstractions to describe products and mechanisms (such as various types of auctions) to support the negotiation of prices - and, indeed, mechanisms to support the negotiation of terms and conditions more generally. The underlying conceptual basis needs to be extremely flexible in order to cover the wide range of products offered via the internet while the associated abstractions must be sufficiently elaborated to allow for extensive automation of onlintransactions. Conceptual models of products and of the negotiation of prices, terms and conditions, serve as a foundation for e-commerce platforms. They also support the use of standardized languages like XML in the specification of high level interfaces.

Purpose

The workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers, students and practitioners who are interested in modelling products and product-related aspects of eCommerce. The program committee welcomes research papers as well as case studies which reflect upon practical experience.

Topics

- Design and Maintenaince of Product Ontologies - Modelling Product Catalogues - Modelling Financial Services - Internationalisation of Product Descriptions - Modelling Auctions - Modelling Product Variants - Concepts to Support Online-Configuration of Products - Specialised Modelling Languages, Meta-Models - Mapping to XML-Document Types - ...

Paper Submission Deadline June 18th, 2001 Notification of Acceptance July 16th, 2001 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts July 30th, 2001

Program Committee

Ulrich Frank, Universität Koblenz (Chair) Jörg Becker, Universität Münster Andreas Oberweis, Universität Frankfurt Elmar Sinz, Universität Bamberg Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Universität St. Gallen Rudi Studer, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Paul Swatman, Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology Turowski, Universität Magdeburg Gottfried Vossen, Universität Münster Christof Weinhardt, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Alfred Zimmermann, FH Reutlingen

-- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Rheinau 1 56075 Koblenz Visitor Address: Rammsweg 1

Tel. : 0049-0261-287 2522 Fax : 0049-0261-287 2521 email: ulrich.frank@uni-koblenz.de www : http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~iwi

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