[AISWorld] Electronic Markets: CfP - Special Issue on "Security and Privacy in Business Networking"

[Karen Heyden]

- Apologies for cross-postings. - 

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers for the
special issue of Electronic Markets on "Security and Privacy in Business
Networking". 
The submission deadline is August 31, 2012. The detailed CfP is copied
below and available at www.electronicmarkets.org.

We cordially invite original research contributions to the special issue
or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from
all potential authors. In addition, we invites well-known scholars in
various areas of electronic markets and business networking to write a
position paper on a salient issue of their choice. Please note that
general research articles and position papers can be submitted anytime
whereas special issue articles have to be submitted by the deadline
shown in the CfP.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.

If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics
please contact the editorial office (editors at electronicmarkets.org).

With best regards,

Karen Heyden
Executive Editor

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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 

Call for Papers for Special Issue on 

"Security and Privacy in Business Networking"

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Guest Editors 
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* Sven Wohlgemuth, Sirrix AG security technologies, Germany
* Nicolas C. Romano Jr., Oklahoma State University, USA
* Stefan Sackmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 
* Noboru Sonehara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
* A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Theme
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Security and privacy are an indispensable enabler for novel business
networking applications. Examples of such systems include energy
allocation coordinated by smart grids, healthcare services with
electronic records, traffic management with personal sensors, RFID in
retail and logistics, and integration of individuals' social network
information into goods and services. Such adaptive systems are enabled
by recent technological advances, such as standardization of web
services, flexible business process management "in the large",
middleware for distributed computing, or smart objects with their
on-demand orchestration as ICT services. 
However, a number of challenges appear on the way to widely adopting
such new business models based upon these technologies and realizing
their sprouting options. The challenges refer particularly to the
construction of secure systems, the runtime control as well as auditing
for adherence with security, compliance, and privacy policies in spite
of the inherent dynamic character of adaptive systems. Furthermore, such
systems are "data-centric" by definition. This causes hitherto
unprecedented extent of data collection and usage conflicting with
security and privacy concerns of users and business partners. Hence,
realizing new business models building upon dynamic business networks
demand sound methods and scalable tools for tackling these security and
privacy challenges. 

Topics
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This special issue calls for original papers on methodologies,
technologies, case-studies and best practices addressing problems of
security and privacy in on-demand, inter-organizational orchestrated ICT
systems for business networks. The special issue very much welcomes
contributions from academia, industry and business practice on the
following non-exhaustive list of topics:
* Best Practices, Methodologies, Cost/Benefit Assessments
* Big Data Analytics
* Business Continuity Plan and Business Continuity Management 
* Control Mechanisms and Technologies
* Critical Information Infrastructure Protection 
* Dependability and Security 
* Distributed Policy Management
* Economics of Control 
* Inter-organizational Risk Assessment and Management
* Resilience in Business Networking
* Business Process Management in the Large
* Security Certification and Auditing
* Privacy-aware Business Intelligence

Electronic Markets is a methodologically pluralistic journal.
Quantitative and qualitative research methods are both welcome, as long
as the studies are methodologically sound. Conceptual and
theory-development papers, empirical hypothesis testing, and case-based
studies are all welcome. All papers will be peer reviewed and should
conform to Electronic Markets publication standards.

Submission
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Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been
published before; that it is not under consideration for publication
anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors,
if any, as well as by the responsible authorities - tacitly or
explicitly - at the institute where the work has been carried out. The
publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any
claims for compensation. A submission must be in English and should
consist of approximately 5,000 - at least 3,500 and at most of 6,000 -
words. The template is available at www.eletronicmarkets.org. Articles
must be submitted via the electronic submission system at
http://elma.edmgr.com.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special theme, please
contact the guest editors for the special issue.

Contact addresses
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s.wohlgemuth at sirrix.com
nicholas.romano at okstate.edu
stefan.sackmann at wiwi.uni-halle.de 
sonehara at nii.ac.jp 
amin at ifs.tuwien.ac.at 
or editors at electronicmarkets.org 

Important deadline
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* Submission Deadline: August 31, 2012 


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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 
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Editors-in-Chief: Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig and Hubert Oesterle,
University of St. Gallen 
Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig

Editorial Office:
Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business 
c/o Information Systems Institute University of Leipzig
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 9733600
Fax +49 341 9733612
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Electronic Markets is a SSCI-listed academic journal and published
quarterly by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).