[AISWorld] EC-Web 2012 - Call for Papers

[Christian Pichler]

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Call for Papers - EC-Web 2012
13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies

September 3-7, 2012
Wien, Austria

http://www.dexa.org/EcWeb2012

Conference Chairs: 

Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Pasquale Lops,  University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy

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IMPORTANT DATES
- March 31, 2012: Submission Deadline
- May 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance
- June 15, 2012: Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due
- September 3-7, 2012: Conference program

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EC-Web 2012 covers the following list of topics. 

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e-Business Architectures:
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E-business architectures leverage Web Technologies to implement mission-critical e-business systems. 
Still there is a need for design principles, methods, and technologies for describing the structure of e-Business systems, its composition of subsystems, and their relationship with the external environment.

* Enterprise Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
* Business Collaboration Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
* Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
* Enterprise Architecture Design Principles
* Architecture Quality Measurements
* Legacy System Integration
* Middleware Integration

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Recommender Systems:
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Recommender and business intelligence systems supporting both the customer side and the providers side in making better business decision is still a challenging issue.

* Industrial application of recommendation technologies
* Consumer search, decision making and consumer buying behavior models
* Computational advertising
* Reputation and Trust in recommender systems
* Persuasion techniques and recommender systems
* Context-aware recommender systems
* Recommender systems and social networks
* Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence
* Novelty, diversity and serendipity
* Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
* Explanations in recommender systems

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Semantic representation of e-business and e-commerce information:
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Managing knowledge for the coordination of e-business processes through the systematic application of Semantic Web technologies is the focus of semantic e-business. It builds up on Semantic Web technologies, knowledge management and e-business processes. Challenges address the conceptualization how e-business related knowledge is captured, represented, shared, and processed by humans and intelligent software.

* Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing business data
* Ontological engineering of business applications
* Linked Open Data
* Semantic reasoning about business data
* Search, query, analysis, and integration of business data

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Business Services and Process Management:
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Business services focus on the alignment of business and IT allowing smoother business operations and business processes. 
This also allows for more effective business process management approaches concerning the design, modeling, execution, monitoring and optimization of business process life cycles.

* Business/IT Alignment
* Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
* Service Identification, Modeling, and Granularity
* Service Revenue Models
* Service Engineering/Development Methods
* Service-oriented Business Modeling
* Software as a Service, Service as a Software
* Business process modeling and analysis
* SOA for business processes
* Service-enabled workflow management systems

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Agent-based E-Commerce:
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Agents are computer systems situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet their design objectives. 
Research on agent-based e-commerce has a vigorous tradition. However, new trends and concerns are emerging.

* Agent Technology for E-Commerce
* Agents in B2B and B2C E-Commerce
* Partnership Formation and Brokering Mechanisms
* Auctions and Automated Negotiation
* Interaction Protocols and Mechanism Design
* Argumentation-based Negotiation
* Coalition Formation and Teams
* Contracts and Contracting Issues
* Electronic Voting and Market-Oriented Programming
* E-Commerce Systems and Commercial Applications
* E-Supply Chains and Virtual Organizations

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E-Business Case Studies:
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In constructive research, new prototypes to conduct e-business have emerged over the last couple of years. Although EC-Web focuses on new research ideas, we also welcome case studies that report on applying recent research results in real world environments, such as:

* E-Procurement
* E-Shops
* E-Tendering, E-Auctions
* E-Markets
* E-Payment
* Cross-enterprise solutions
* Cross-border issues
* Mobile e-Business
* E-commerce and e-business APPification


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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. 

Manuscripts will be limited to 12 (Springer LNBIP) pages. Please follow the format at: 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF) is required.  
Please submit your paper using the on-line submission system at http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2012/

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers are evaluated according to originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition.

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of Springer series on "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing" (LNBIP).

At least one author is required to register and to present the paper

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed):

Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK 
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy 
Giuliano Armano, University of Cagliari, Italy 
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia 
Marko Boskovic, Research Studios Austria 
Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy 
Robin Burke, De Paul University, USA 
Maria Laura Caliusco, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina 
Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain 
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Sven Casteleyn, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 
Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 
Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy 
Kuo-Ming Chao, University of Coventry 
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 
Marco Comuzzi, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 
Florian Daniel, University of Trento - DISI 
Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy 
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Ernesto William De Luca, DAI-Labor, Germany 
Tommaso Di Noia, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy 
Damiani Ernesto, Universitá degli Studi di Milano 
Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Austria 
Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics 
Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy 
Michele Gorgoglione, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy 
Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau 
Chang Heng, Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, P.R.China 
Birgit Hofreiter, TU Vienna 
Leo Iaquinta, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany 
Robert Jäschke, University of Kassel, Germany 
Alípio Mário Jorge, University of Porto, Protugal 
Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA 
Christoph Lattemann, Jacobs University 
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim 
Philipp Liegl, TU Vienna 
Andre Ludwig, University of Leipzig 
Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA 
Andrea Maurino, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy 
Stuart E. Middleton, University of Southampton, UK 
Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Fedelucio Narducci, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy 
Alex Norta, University of Helsinki 
Umberto Panniello, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy 
Christian Pichler, TU Vienna 
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 
Szabolcs Rozsnyai, IBM Research 
Andreas Schönberger, University of Bamberg 
Giovanni Semeraro, "Univeristy of Bari ""Aldo Moro"", Italy"
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong
Yan Tang, VUB STARLab
Eloisa Vargiu, Barcelona Digital, Spain
Andreas Wombacher, University Twente
Jih-Shyr Yih, IBM Research
Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria 
Marco Zapletal, TU Vienna 
Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna 
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