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Subject: 4th WECWIS 2002 Call for Participation Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:56:13 -0400 From: "Martin Bichler" bichler@us.ibm.com To: "Jen-Yao Chung" jychung@us.ibm.com

=================================================================== Call for Participation

4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems

June 26-28, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA ===================================================================

The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of the WWW have created a tremendous opportunity for conducting business on the Internet. The terms e-commerce and e-business have been used to describe those systems and technologies that make conducting business on the Internet possible. The purpose of this workshop is to identify and explore the technical and related technology management issues and solutions for e-commerce on the Internet. The WECWIS workshop is to be a forum for free exchange of ideas.

The year's program features a variety of papers, focusing on topics ranging from Web services, to Internet infrastructures, auctions, and pricing. In addition, there will be a tutorial on webservices research, development directions and applications. Keynote speakers will be:

- Matthieu Devin (Oracle) Web Services and XML Good News: The Difficult Issues are Still Open

- Alan Karp (HP) E-nabling the E-conomy

- John Sayah (IBM) Web Services: Enabling Business Integration and Collaboration

WECWIS 2002 workshop has opened its registration. The advance program and the registration page can be found on the Web at

http://linux.ece.uci.edu/TFEC/wecwis.html

=> Early-bird registration is open until May 25, 2002.

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