[agents] CFP: Tenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, August 18-22, 2008

[Ilona Zaremba]

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Tenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008)
Innsbruck, Austria, August 18-22, 2008
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Call for Submission

The adoption and ubiquity of modern Internet access provides rich and 
varied opportunities for innovation and improvement of businesses. Over 
recent years, developments have led to a shift in the way business is 
conducted, from providing new and innovative service frameworks for B2B, 
to increasingly sophisticated, Web 2.0 services to improve the B2C user 
experience. Simultaneously, advances in the use of devices, as well as 
AI techniques have provided better and more varied access to e-commerce 
systems as well as facilitating greater autonomy in the way business is 
conducted. The Internet offers unique opportunities for individuals, 
businesses and governments to seek new ways of providing novel services, 
both qualitatively and quantitatively at substantially lower costs. 
Although many challenges remain, advances in Service Oriented 
Architectures and Semantic Web have opened up new models and avenues for 
research and exploitation.
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) provides a 
forum to share invaluable experience of good practices and pitfalls in 
strategy planning, design, development, engineering and implementation 
of e-services.

ICEC 2008 will feature:
• invited keynote presentations
• panels on topical issues on technology, business and public policy
• refereed paper presentations on emerging and continuing research issues
• tutorials and workshops in seven thematic tracks
• demonstration and posters
• an exhibition, and
• a doctoral consortium

The conference will be organized into several tracks, which focus on the 
latest developments and innovations in e-commerce in the following areas 
of interest:
1. Business-to-business e-commerce: adoption of IOS, technologies for 
interoperable processes, and e-collaboration for global reach;
2. Business-to-consumer e-commerce: trends, problem areas, and solutions 
with emphasis on emerging markets;
3. E-government, policy and law: state-of-the-art and future regulation 
of e-commerce, including public strategies in limiting illicit 
activities and copyright violations;
4. Business/Enterprise Architectures: state-of-the-art and strategies 
for unifying extended enterprise resource base;
5. Mobile and pervasive commerce: alternative interaction metaphors that 
facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to users in 
novel environments;
6. Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent, 
decentralized systems, that utilized AI-based and game-theoretic 
approaches to facilitate both heuristic and theoretically sound decision 
making;
7. Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services: decentralized 
knowledge-based systems and methodologies that support the exchange of 
information (including workflows, policies, services and ontological 
knowledge) in dynamic and heterogeneous environments.

Papers
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality research papers describing 
the latest research and developments in the above-mentioned fields. 
Submissions encompassing other areas are welcome, but authors are 
advised to contact program chairs to discuss relevance before submission.
Papers should not have been submitted for review, accepted for 
publication, or already published elsewhere. All submitted papers will 
be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance 
and clarity. All accepted papers will be published in the conference 
proceedings. Initial submissions for review should be no longer than 10 
pages. Papers must be submitted in PDF, according to the ACM Proceedings 
Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). For any 
inquiries relating to a paper proposal please contact: Jups Heikkilä; 
Terry Paine (ICEC 2008 Program Co-Chairs) at: jups at cc.jyu.fi; at 
trp at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Workshops and Tutorials
The Workshop Track is a multi-dimensional channel aiming to share a wide 
variety of industry and educational knowledge and experience. This is a 
useful channel to report on the latest trends in e-commerce, inform 
others about cutting-edge technology and the necessary skills to advance 
within the IS/IT profession. Workshops can be created to discuss the 
challenges and achievements of new technologies and e-business 
applications, educating students, innovating and working with the 
industry, transferring and creating new knowledge between academia and 
industry, and for other industry and academic related experiences. This 
channel is used to contribute to our profession's body of knowledge 
through the sharing of unique and timely findings.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should include:
• Title of the workshop or tutorial
• Description of topic(s) and content(s) of the workshop or tutorial
• Aims (theoretical and/or practical) of the workshop or tutorial
• Detailed contact information of the workshop organizer(s) or tutorial 
presenter(s)
• Length (half day or one day) of the proposed workshop or tutorial
• Short description of the audience to which the workshop/tutorial is 
addressed and estimated number of participants
• Schedule and agenda of the workshop or tutorial
• Resources (other than room) required to be provided by the conference 
organizer
• Proposals should be related to at least one of the conference themes

The general selection criteria for acceptance of workshop/tutorial 
proposals include the following:

• What is the relevance and significance to our fields?
• Is the proposal useful and practical?
• Does it represent forward thinking–was it visionary?
• Is the presentation appropriate to the category and time frame selected?
• Is it focused on the educator and/or the corporate executive?
• Is there demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter?
• Does the proposal incorporate the conference theme?

Please submit your workshop or tutorial proposal through the online 
system available and accessible at the website of the conference 
http://www.icec08.org. For any inquiries relating to a workshop or 
tutorial proposal please contact: Marianna Sigala (ICEC 2008 Workshop 
Chair) at m.sigala at aegean.gr; Manfred Hauswirth (ICEC 2008 Tutorial 
Chair) at manfred.hauswirth at deri.org


Doctoral Consortium

The ICEC Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together doctoral students 
within the fields of e-commerce and e-business to open their work up to 
discussion in an international forum, and to obtain valuable feedback 
from their fellow scientists with respect to both topic-specific 
research issues, and research methodology. Students will be asked to 
submit an extended abstract (of about 5 pages), structured in accordance 
to a pre-defined template, whose focus is on the key methodological 
components required for a sound research narrative. Generally speaking, 
priority will be given to 1st/2nd year PhD students, because they are 
still in the process of defining the scope of their research. However, 
all PhD students are welcome and encouraged to apply.

The Doctoral Consortium is open to all PhD students carrying out 
research on topics related to electronic commerce or electronic business 
(see below). The applicants are required to send an extended abstract of 
their doctoral work, which should address the following aspects:

• What is the research problem of the PhD thesis and why is it relevant 
for the e-commerce or e-business areas?
• What is the state of the art in the field, where do you see room for 
improvement and why is it feasible to assume your work will have chance 
to achieve progress?
• What are the main contributions expected?
• What are the real-world use cases (applications, target audience) 
which are likely to benefit from your work?
• What is the general research approach followed?
• What has been achieved so far?
• What the evaluation method applied or planned to be applied?
• What are your plans for future work?
• Topics of interest to the Doctoral Consortium include (but are not 
restricted to) the conference themes

The submissions should not exceed 5 pages and be formatted according to 
the ACM Proceedings Format 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Applicants should 
also specify (e.g., in a footnote to the paper) how long they have 
worked on their doctoral work. The submissions will be reviewed against 
the following criteria (in this order):

• Novelty and originality of the research work
• Rigorousness and scientific soundness of the overall approach and of 
the results so far
• Clarity of the presentation
• Relevance of the work with respect to the specified list of topics

The selected participants will be given the opportunity to open their 
work up to discussion in front of other students and an expert audience 
(either in a regular presentation session or in a poster session). For 
any inquiries relating to a doctoral consortium proposal please contact 
Elena Simperl (ICEC 2008 Doctoral Consortium Chair) at elena.simperl at sti2.at


Demonstration and Poster

ICEC hosts a demo track providing a stage for demonstrating cutting edge 
applications in the field of electronic commerce. Demo applications may 
comprise of academic prototypes as well as commercial innovations from 
industry. The demo track takes place on one afternoon during the 
conference. Submissions should describe the application in no more than 
2 pages. Accepted authors are expected to prepare a poster depicting the 
application's functionality.
Submissions should describe the application in no more than 2 pages. 
Accepted authors are expected to prepare a poster depicting the 
application's functionality. For any inquiries relating to a demo 
proposal please contact Marco Zapletal (ICEC 2008 Demo Chair) at 
icec08_demo at ec.tuwien.ac.at

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your proposals through the online system available and 
accessible at the website of the conference http://www.icec08.org

Important Dates

Electronic paper submission: February 29, 2008
Paper notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008
Camera-ready versions: May 30, 2008
	
Workshop/tutorial proposals: February 29, 2008
Workshop notification: April 30, 2008
	
Doctoral Consortium paper: May 5, 2008
Doctoral Consortium notification: June 9, 2008
Camera-ready versions: June 23, 2008
	
Associated events: August 18, 2008
Conference dates: August 19-22, 2008


Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:	
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Hannes Werthner, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Local Organisational Chair, Publicity/Sponsorship Chair:	 	Peter Mirski, 
MCI Innsbruck, Austria

Academic Program Co-Chairs:
Jups Heikkilä, University of Jyväskylä), Finland
Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK

Workshop Chair:
Marianna Sigala, University of Aegean, Greece

Demo and Poster Chair:	 	
Marco Zapletal, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Tutorial Chair:
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI Galway, Ireland

Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Industrial Liason:
Marcus Spieß, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Conference Administrator: 	 	
Ilona Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria