CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and WIP PAPER

           International Workshop on Advance Issues of
           E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems
        			WECWIS'99

             Santa Clara, California, April 8-9, 1999
          Workshop Hompage: www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/Wecwis.html

		Advance Program of WECWIS'99


--------------------- Day 1 (April 8, Thursday) ------------------

8:15. Openning Remarks

8:30 - 9:30. Keynote: Technology Drivers in Electronic Commerce
	Stuart Feldman, Director, IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce 

10:00 - 12:00. Session I. Real-Time Issues in E-Commerce and WIS

* A Real-Time Protocol for Stock Market Transactions
  S. Subramanian and M. Singhal, Ohio State University, USA
  
* Data Broadcast for Time-Constrained Read-Only Transactions in
     Mobile Computing Systems
  Kam-yiu Lam, E. Chan, and C. Yuen 
  City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

* Mirror: A State-conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated
     Real-Time Databases
  Ming Xiong, K. Ramamritham, J. Haritsa, J. Stankovic 
  Univ. of Massachusetts, USA

* A Real-Time Monitoring System for Financial Transactions
  Q. Zhong and H. Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China

12:00 - 1:30. Lunch

1:30 - 3:30. Session II. Web-based Business Models and Architectures 

* A Quantitative Analysis of the Behavior of a Large Non-English E-Broker
  V. Almeida, W. Meira Jr., V. Ribeiro, N. Ziviani, 
  Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

* Proposal of Application Architecture in E-Commerce Service
     between Companies
  M. Mori, H. Tsuru, R. Itsuki, H. Yajima, 
  Hitachi, Japan
  
* Customization Rule Generation for Electronic Sales Promotion System in
     Wholesale Industry
  M. Yumoto, K. Oh, N. Komoda, T. Mori, Osaka University, Japan

* Business-to-Business E-Commerce with Open Buying on the Internet
  L. Liu, J. Tian, J. Li, J. Chung, IBM China Research Lab, China


4:00 - 6:30. Work-in-Progress/Industrial Session
   Chair: Jen Yao Chung

7:00.  Banquet


------------------------ Day 2 (April 9, Friday) ------------------

8:30 - 10:00. Session III. New Approaches and Infrastructures

* A Component-Oriented Approach For Enterprise-Devoted E-Commerce
  M. Abolhassani and G. Szentivanyi
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* An Advanced Multimedia Infrastructure for WWW-based Information Systems
  F. Rousseau and A. Duda,  Open Group Research Institute, France
  
* Active and Real-Time Functionalities for Electronic Brokerage Design
  M. Beck, P. Konana, G. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Mok, 
  University of Texas at Austin, USA

* The Evolution of Business-to-Business Commerce Systems:
     The Influence of New Information Technology Models
  Jim Senn, Georgia State University, USA
	       

10:30 - 12:30.  Session IV.  Invited Papers 

* A Conceptual Annotation Approach to Indexing in a Web-based 
	Information System
  E. Bertino, B. Catania, G. Zarri, University of Milan, Italy

* Customization in Online Trade Processes
  A. Basu and S. Muylle, Vanderbilt University, USA

* The Effect of Bargaining in Electronic Commerce
  T.-P. Liang and H.-S. Doong, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

12:30 - 2:00.  Lunch

2:00 - 3:00.  Session VII. Metadata and Security  

* Semantic Metadata for the Integration of Web-based Data for E-Commerce
  Christof Bornhovd, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

* Towards a scalable PKI for E-commerce systems
  C. Wang and W. Wulf, University of Virginia, USA
  

3:30 - 5:00.  Panel

5:00. Closing Remarks

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Work-In-Progress Session 

Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session are sought. 
WECWIS'99 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going 
projects in web-based systems and applications. The prime purpose of 
this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their
evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the community at large. 
The WIP session will be held on Thursday, April 8, 1999, and will consist 
of short presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted 
submissions will be included in the proceedings which will be published 
by the IEEE-CS. Submissions to WIP should describe original on-going work 
and should be limited to 3-4 pages. 

Please send all WIP submissions via Email to Workshop Co-Chair: 

Dr. Jen-Yao Chung
Email: jychung@us.ibm.com 
Phone: +1-914-784-7762 

The deadline for submissions is March 10, 1999. 

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           International Workshop on Advance Issues of
           E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems
             Santa Clara, California, April 8-9, 1999

          Workshop Hompage: www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/Wecwis.html

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Local Information 

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  mile from Santa Clara Convention Center and Paramount's Great 
  America theme park, and an easy five miles to downtown San Jose and 
  its Convention Center. Museums, restaurants and entertainment are 
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