[AISWorld] CFP: Special issue on Development of AGI in e-commerce(JECR)

[Xusen Cheng]

Call for papers: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
Special Issue on Development of AGI in e-commerce

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an important integral part of e-commerce.
The use of AI in various forms of AI-powered tools (e.g., chatbots, smart
search, personalized product recommendations, and demand forecasting)
provides extensive benefits by increasing efficiency, automating processes,
and boosting profits (Ge et al., 2021; Luo et al., 2019; Tong et al.,
2021). With the launch of ChatGPT, we have witnessed the huge potential of
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) triggering transformative changes in
the e-commerce industry (Dwivedi et al., 2023). E-commerce giants including
Taobao, JD, and Amazon are deploying AGI applications to enhance consumer
experiences. For instance, Amazon has deployed AGI to summarize all the
online reviews of a product to present all the product quality information
together, thereby helping consumers make a faster purchase decision. With
the support of AGI, Taobao and JD have employed digital live streamers to
promote products. Moreover, the newest introduced Sora system can generate
realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions, which may
revolutionize the content creation ecosystem in the e-commerce industry.

Undoubtedly, AGI has injected vitality into e-commerce. The application and
development of AGI in e-commerce have attracted considerable attention from
academic communities and practitioners. On the one hand, AGI allows
e-commerce businesses to improve their profitability and effectiveness. It
has automated many processes of e-commerce businesses, including
personalized marketing campaigns and recommendations. On the other hand,
the application of AGI in e-commerce also yields negative consequences
related to trust, responsibility, fairness, discrimination, privacy,
ethics, and unemployment.

This special issue calls for the various research perspectives and the
latest trends of AGI in e-commerce. This special issue is interested in
novel and thought-provoking contributions about the impact of AGI on the
e-commerce industry across all levels and domains. We welcome extensive
research on related issues without any constraints in terms of theory,
method, or context. Topics that are of interest to this special issue include,
but are not limited to:

-         Future trends of AGI development in e-commerce

-         Case studies on the application of AGI in e-commerce

-         Digital humans in e-commerce

-         Impact of AGI on consumer behavior

-         Impact of AGI on sale performance

-         AGI-powered agents' adoption and acceptance in e-commerce

-         Innovative applications and new methods of AGI in e-commerce

-         Dark side of AGI in e-commerce

-         Social and ethical governance of AGI

-         Application of AGI in logistics operations

-         Impact of AGI on consumer decisions

-         Human-AGI collaboration

-         Impact of AGI on employee performance

-         Bias, discrimination, and fairness in AGI systems

-         Transparency and explainability of AGI

-         Trust and accountability of AGI

-         Privacy and data breaches relevant to the usage of AGI

-         Strategies for responding to AGI

-         Technical design for AGI deployment

*Guest Editors: *

Xusen Cheng, Renmin University of China, China, (email:
xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn)

Jian Mou, Pusan National University, South Korea (email:
jian.mou at pusan.ac.kr)

Yonggui Wang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China, (ygwang at zjsu.edu.cn)

 Alex Zarifis, University of Southampton, UK, (a.zarifis at soton.ac.uk)

*Submission Instructions:*

All papers should be submitted as a WORD document (in Microsoft Word
format) to *xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn <xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn>* and carbon
copy to the Editor-in-chief, Professor M.Y. Kiang (e-mail:
Melody.Kiang at csulb.edu). Authors should follow the submission guidelines at
http://www.jecr.org/node/324 when preparing the submission. All papers will
undergo the journal’s standard double-blind review processes.

*Important dates:*

Open submission: 05/07/2024

Submission due: 20/11/2024


For more details, please go to http://www.jecr.org/


Kind Regards

Xusen Cheng, Ph.D
Professor of Information Systems
School of Information, Renmin University of China
Beijing, China, 100872
Email: xusen.cheng at gmail.com



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