Forwarded message from [roehm@wi-inf.uni-essen.de] sent originally on Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:23:16 +0100 (MET): : Please apologize if you receive this more than once. : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- : ---- : : First International Conference on : Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies : EC-Web 2000 : : September 4-6, 2000 : Greenwich, U.K. : http://www.dexa.org/ecweb : : (To be held in parallel with DEXA'00 (11th International Conference on : Database and Expert Systems Applications). : : Outline: : -------- : The growth of the Internet has dramatically changed the way in which web : data is managed, accessed and used commercially to conduct business : electronically. Thus, WWW, a distributed global information resource, is not : only important to individual users, but to business organizations. Today, a : large number of companies, organizations, and customers are exploiting the : opportunities offered by Internet-based electronic commerce solutions and : many more are expected to follow. Companies have put their databases and : product catalogues on the Web, search engines allow electronic market : participants around the globe to locate potential trading partners, and a : set of different protocols are established to exchange goods and services by : using different business models and following different strategies. There is : a diagnostic need for effective tools for information consumers, who must be : able to easily locate in the web interested information from unstructured : documents and pictures to structured, record oriented data. The effective : and efficient access to the web information to support e-commerce activities : has become a critical research area. This has led to the development of new : e-commerce tools and technology, web data models and query languages, web : site management system, auction and negotiation issues etc. The management : of Web data is receiving a new set of challenges with the advent of XML and : other standards. : : The main objective of this conference is to bring together researchers from : different disciplines, developers, and users all interested in electronic : commerce and web technologies and to assess current methodologies and new : research directions. Although a natural focus will be on computer science : issues, we expressly welcome technical research contributions from : economics, : business, law, and other relevant disciplines. The conference will be : organized : as a two track conference: E-commerce and Web Technologies. The major topics : of : interest include but are not limited to: : : Electronic Commerce : ------------------- : Auction and negotiation technology : Agent-mediated electronic commerce : Business Process Reengineering for electronic commerce : Case studies in electronic commerce : Consumer protection in electronic commerce : Costs and benefit aspects : Cryptographic techniques and applications : Digital goods and products : Electronic commerce application fields : (such as health care, tourism, trade, university, government, : logistics and transport) : Electronic payment systems and exchange protocols : Electronic publishing : Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises : Innovative business models : Intellectual property licensing : Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts : Legal and privacy issues : Network pricing and quality of service : Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues : Security issues and methods : Social, organizational and cross-cultural issues : Standards for electronic commerce : : Web Technologies : ---------------- : Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) : Web data models : Web data integration and wrappers : Web query languages : Web query processing and optimization : Storage structures and indexing techniques for web data : Web warehousing : Knowledge discovery of web data : Web data mining and analysis : Discovering structures in web data : Web site management : View maintenance of web data : Web security : Mobile agents to deal with web data : Digital libraries and information retrieval : Web caching : Web data visualization : Web Farming : : Paper Submission Details : ------------------------ : Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding : 5000 words or 16 A-4 double-spaced pages, representing original, previously : unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on : originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. : All papers will be refereed by three members of the program committee. : Accepted papers will be published by the Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in : Computer Science (LNCS). The authors are requested to send the abstract of : the paper to be received by February 23, 2000 in ASCII format including the : paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations, by email : to pernul@wi-inf.uni-essen.de (for the Electronic Commerce track) or to : skm@cs.purdue.edu (for the Web Technologies track). : : The authors are highly encouraged to submit the papers electronically. You : can submit your paper as a post-script or pdf file to Guenther Pernul : (pernul@wi-inf.uni-essen.de) for the Electronic Commerce track or to Sanjay : K. Madria (skm@cs.purdue.edu) for the Web Technologies track to be received : by February 29, 2000. : : Alternatively, submit 5 hard copies of your paper to be received by February : 29, : 2000 to the following addresses: : : EC-WEB 2000 : c/o FAW Secretary : University of Linz : A-4040 Linz, Austria : : Telephone: ++43 732 244962 : Fax : ++43 732 243989 : : IMPORTANT DATES : --------------- : * Submission of abstracts: February 23, 2000 : * Submission of full papers: February 29, 2000 : * Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2000 : * Camera-ready copies due: June 1, 2000 : : General Chair : ------------- : Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland : : Programme Chairs : ---------------- : : Track Electronic Commerce : Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany (pernul@wi-inf.uni-essen.de) : : Track Web Technologies : Sanjay Kumar Madria, Purdue University, USA (skm@cs.purdue.edu) : : Programme Committee (Track Electronic Commerce) : ----------------------------------------------- : Karl Aberer, GMD-IPSI, Germany : Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University, USA : Martin Bichler, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria : Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland : Roger Clarke, The Australian National University, Australia : Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey : Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA : Joze Gricar, University of Maribor, Slovenia : Kamalakar Karlapalem, HKUST, China : Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany : Wolfgang Koenig, University of Frankfurt, Germany : Ralf Kramer, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany : Karl Kurbel, Europe University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany : Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany : Ronald M. Lee, Erasmus University, The Netherlands : Michael Merz,University of Hamburg, Germany : Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria : Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland : Alexander Roehm, University of Essen, Germany : Stephanie Teufel, University of Oldenburg, Germany : Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece : Paul Timmers, European Commission DG XIII, Belgium : A Min Tjoa, Vienna Technical University, Austria : Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) : Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria : J. Christopher Westland, Honk Kong University of Science & Technology, China : Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas, USA : Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA : : Programme Committee (Track Web Technologies) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : : Chaitan Baru, University of California San Diego, USA : Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA : Juliana Freire, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, USA : Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA : Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA : Matthias Klusch, DFKI German AI Research Center, Germany : Laks Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada : George Lausen, Universitat Freiburg, Germany : Jitendra S. Deogun, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA : Dik Lee, HKUST, China : Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore : Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA : Mukesh Mohania, Western Michigan University, USA : Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore : Stefano Paraboschi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy : Evi Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece : Giuseppe Psaila, Politecnico di Milano, Italy : P. Krishna Reddy, University of Tokyo, Japan : Gerorge Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus : N. L. Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India : Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA : Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA : Giuseppe Sindoni, National Statistics Institute - Dep. of Computation, Italy : Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA : Dan Suciu, AT&T, USA : Kian Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore : Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada : Yanchun Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia : : For inquiries please contact any of the programme chairs.

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