-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICEBE2005: Paper Submission Deadline Extended Datum: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:43:50 +1000 (EST) Von: Shonali Krishnaswamy Shonali.Krishnaswamy@infotech.monash.edu.au An: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline for ICEBE 2005 has been extended to April 26, 2005. However, authors are still required to register the paper abstract by the original deadline - April 5, 2005.

====================================================================== Call For Papers 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society With support from IBM, Tsinghua University, and Singapore Management University Beijing, China October 18-20, 2005 http://www.cs.hku.hk/icebe2005/ ======================================================================

Paper registration deadline April 5, 2005 Paper submission deadline April 26, 2005 Notification of acceptance June 20, 2005 Final manuscripts due July 25, 2005

Highlights: * Call for submissions of research papers, industry track papers and student workshop papers * Best paper award and best student paper award * Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press * Selected conference papers also to be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Electronic Business

The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005) is an international forum for researchers and practitioners from different areas of computer science and management science to exchange information on the engineering design, enabling technologies, and anecdotal experiences as related to e-business, to identify the emerging research topics, as well as to help shape the future of IT-transformed enterprise, government and commerce. ICEBE 2005 is a follow-on conference to the highly successful CEC-East 2004 (http://tab.computer.org/tcec/cec04-east/), and a sister event of the IEEE 7th International Conference on e-Commerce Technology (CEC 2005, http://cec05.in.tum.de/), which will be held in Munich, Germany, July 19-22, 2005.

The technical program of ICEBE 2005 will consist of keynote speeches, paper presentations, and panel discussion. ICEBE 2005 will also include an industry track to foster the interaction between the academics and the industry, and a student workshop for graduate students to receive constructive feedback on their thesis research from their peers and senior faculty members.

The conference theme will be "enabling e-business in emerging markets". The conference scope spans the areas of middleware, databases, management information systems, Web, and multimedia. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

* Software Infrastructure for e-Business * Service-oriented computing * Grid computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Utility computing * Web services

* Mobile and Pervasive Commerce * Sensor systems and RFID applications * Location-based services and telematics * Ubiquitous information access * Context awareness and smart environments * Resource discovery of mobile services

* Data Management for e-Business * Information integration and mediation * Transaction and workflow management * Stream processing and continuous queries * Real-time delivery of multimedia content * Mining data, text and Web

* e-Business Transformation * Business modeling, enterprise integration and performance management * Ecosystems and virtual enterprise * Risk prediction and value analysis * Enterprise resource planning and supply chain * Linkage between business and IT

PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced pages and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards. For easy identification, all industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the conference Web site at http://www.cs.hku.hk/icebe2005/. Authors are required to register their papers by April 5, 2005, and actually submit their papers by April 26, 2005. PDF format is preferred but PostScript format is acceptable.

Research papers and industrial papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference. Selected papers of the conference will also be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Electronic Business. Awards will be given for the best research paper and the best student paper.

We also solicit submissions to the Graduate Student Workshop. Workshop information and submission guidelines can be found at the conference Web site.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chairs: Guoqing Chen, Tsinghua University Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Techology

Program Chairs: Francis Lau, The University of Hong Long Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China

Industry Track Chair: Zhong Tian, IBM China Research Lab

Student Workshop Chairs: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine

Publicity Chairs: Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University Yan Zhu, Tsinghua University

Publication Chair: Min Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Local Arrangement Chairs Hong Cai, IBM China Research Lab Qiang Wei, Tsinghua University

Finance Chairs Lianjun An, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Xiaojun Qian, Tsinghua University

Web Chair Anthony Tam, The University of Hong Kong

Registration Chair Hing Fung Ting, The University of Hong Kong

International Liaison Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente

Special Issue Chair Charles Shoniregun, University of East London

Advisory Board Jian Chen, Tsinghua University Josephine Cheng, IBM China Software Development Lab Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Chair) Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Steven Miller, Singapore Management University Erich Neuhold, Darmstadt University of Techology Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University James T. Yeh, IBM China Research Lab

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative) ----------------------------- Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University Swarup Acharya, Bell Labs Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Deren Chen, Zhejiang University Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University Ying Chen, IBM China Research Lab S.C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology William Cheung, Baptist University of Hong Kong Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh Roger Clark, The Australian National University Alex Delis, University of Athens Anthony F. Han, National Chiao Tung University Renchu Gan, Beijing Institute of Technology Sumi Helal, University of Florida Jinghua Huang, Tsinghua University Joshua Huang, The University of Hong Kong Wayne W. Huang, Ohio University Hoh Peter In, Korea University Valerie Issarny, INRIA Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo Norihisa Komoda, Osaka University Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University Lu Liu, BeiHang University Jiye Mao, Renmin University of China Hong Mei, Peking Univeristy Steven Miller, Singapore Management University Jussi Myllymaki, IBM Almaden Research Center Yue Pan, IBM China Research Lab Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich T.V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur George Samaras, University of Cyprus Ming-Chien Shan, HP Labs John R. Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Helen Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Susan Urban, Arizona State University P. Uthayopas, Kasetsart University Baowen Xu, Southeast University Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Dongqing Yang, Peking University Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University Liangzhao Zeng, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Dalu Zhang, Tongji University Ning Zhang, Peking University Kevin Xiaoguo Zhu, University of California, Irvine Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China