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WEBH2001 Call for Papers

WEBH2001, First International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs: XML, Metadata, Ontologies, and Business Knowledge on the Web

In Conjunction with DEXA 2001 September 3-7 2001 Munich, Germany

Invited talk: Dieter Fensel "Content Management: The cornerstone of successful B2B electronic commerce"

Scope

The new technologies that the Internet enables and its global deployment have made it the natural medium for electronic business and commerce. Recently, the focus of electronic business naturally moved from Business-to-Customer (B2C) to Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic

marketplaces. The existing B2C e-commerce portals serve as a query service that present a combined hypertext catalog of goods from different companies. They lack flexibility and their functionality is quite poor as it is targeted to simple services such as the cataloguing and sales of books or CDs. The B2B marketplaces require a new infrastructure to manage more complex business processes and transacations. The marketplaces must be flexible enough to non-intrusively let players join and leave at

their convenience; they must support the whole supply chain, facilitate negotiation and information exchange between the players; they must give the necessary security and privacy guarantees. Therefore one of the main challenges for the designers of the modern business to business electronic commerce infrastructures is to move the communication among business partners from the proprietary and inflexible Electronic Data Interchange solutions to effective and flexible Electronic Business Hubs.

In this first workshop on Electronic Business Hubs we propose to focus on the role and potential of XML-based data representation and manipulation, the techniques for semantic enrichment of the business concepts, web-based business process representation techniques, and modern security and privacy techniques applied in the new infrastructure

of the Electronic Business Hubs.

The aim of the workshop is to gauge the state of the art in this domain,

the future needs of the industries and techniques from the research side, to clarify the directions of future research.

Topics

We are calling for papers reporting original research results, industrial experience, or case studies.The topics of interest pertaining particularly to electronic business include, but are not limited to: * XML-based data models for product description(XML, XML schema, XML clones) * Business ontologies * Web-based models for business knowledge representation (RDF, semantic markup) * Methodology and tools for designing DTDs and XML schemas * Information integration techniques and aggregators * Tools and techniques for business and marketing intelligence on the Web * Convergence of XML and Database technology (queries, views, updates, data warehouses, etc.) * Convergence of XML and Decision support (visualization, expert systems and business rules, etc.) * Security and privacy with XML * B2B applications

Submission

Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper before March 9, 2001 to Mong Li Lee at leeml@comp.nus.edu.sg. All submissions must be written in English and not exceed 5000 words with two columns in A4 format. The format of the electronic copy can be Postscript, Word, or PDF. You will find the detailed instructions from IEEE at: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Proceedings All papers selected for this workshop will be peer-reviewed and will be published by IEEE in a volume of proceedings of the DEXA 2001 workshops.

Program Committee Mong Li Lee National University of Singapore - Chairman Stephane Bressan National University of Singapore - Co-Chairman Gillian Dobbie University of Auckland, New Zealand Dieter Fensel Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Joseph Fong City University of Hong Kong Eko Indrajit Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia Gerti Kappel University of Linz, Austria Co-Chairman Josef K|ng Universty of Linz, Austria Zoe Lacroix Arizona State University, USA Stuart Madnick Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Borys Omelayenko Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Werner Retschitzegger Universty of Linz, Austria Osamu Yoshie Science University of Tokyo, Japan Publicity Committee Gerti Kappel University of Linz,Austria Anirban Mondal National University of Singapore

Important Dates Paper Sumission March 9, 2001 Notification of Acceptance April 9, 2001 Camera Ready May 15, 2001 Workshop September 3-7, 2001 WEBH 2001- A DEXA 2001 Workshop - September 3-7 2001 - Munich, Germany

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