Call for Papers
Minitrack on
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TECHNOLOGIES
part of the Software Technology Track of HICSS-32
32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Maui, Hawaii - January 5-8, 1999
http://www.di.uoa.gr/~hicss32/e-commerce.html
INTRODUCTION
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) is the ability to conduct business
via electronic networks such as the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Although E-Commerce is based on the principles of Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) it goes far beyond EDI in that it aims at supporting
the complete external business process, including the information stage
(electronic marketing, networking), the negotiation stage (electronic
markets), the fulfillment (order process, electronic payment) and the
satisfaction stage (after sales support).
Emphasis these days is on business-to-business E-Commerce applications:
taking orders, scheduling shipments, providing customer service and so
on. However, present E-Commerce implementations automate only a small
portion of the electronic transaction process. Moreover, E-Commerce
is hampered by closed (self-contained) markets that cannot use each
other's services, incompatible frameworks that cannot interoperate or
build upon each other, and a bewildering collection of security and
payment protocols. In general, E-Commerce applications do not yet
provide the robust transaction, messaging and data access services
typical of contemporary client/server applications.
While there is considerable interest in developing robust Internet
applications, protection of significant investments in client/server
technology and interoperation with mainframe transaction servers and
legacy systems is a serious requirement.
The purpose of this mini-track is to cover enabling technologies,
critical technical approaches and business-centered design methodologies
that address shortcomings of contemporary E-Commerce applications and
that can have a major impact on the evolution of business-to-consumer
and mainly of business-to-business E-Commerce.
Emphasis is given to distributed systems technologies and in particular
how these meet the requirements of business (vertical) applications
that span locational as well as organizational boundaries.
Topics addressed by this mini-track include but are not limited to the
following:
* Architectures for E-Commerce Marketplaces
* Middleware & Interoperable Platforms
* E-Commerce Security Protocols & Architectures
* Transaction technologies for E-Commerce
* Workflow Systems & E-Commerce
* Coordination Models and Frameworks for seamless integration
* E-Commerce Brokering & Matchmaking
* Negotiation Protocols & Services
* Intelligent Searching Techniques
* Contracting & Billing Services
* Electronic Payment Systems
* Business Languages for E-Commerce
* Multi-Agent Systems and E-Commerce
* Multi-Media Shopping Malls & Kiosk Systems
* Integrated/Virtual Enterprises
* Inter-Corporate Business Engineering Methodologies
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
As soon as possible: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs for
guidance, indication of appropriate content and to
receive instructions on submitting full paper.
June 1, 1998: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chairs
Aug. 31, 1998: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors
Oct. 1, 1998: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chairs;
author(s) must register by this time.
Nov. 15, 1998: All other registrations must be received. Registrations
received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space
limitations.
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INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS
Submission of Abstracts
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Submit a 300-word Abstract in ascii form to hicss32@di.uoa.gr
as soon as possible.
Submission of Full Papers
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Full Papers should have an abstract and be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced
pages in length. They must not have been previously presented or published,
nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be
subjected to a rigorous refereeing process involving at least five
reviewers. Individuals interested in refereeing papers should contact the
minitrack coordinators directly.
Submit eight (8) of the full manuscript by June 1, 1998, to the following
address:
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou
(HICSS-32: Minitrack on Electronic Commerce Technologies)
Department of Informatics, University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, TYPA Buildings
Ilisia 157 71, Athens, GREECE
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MINITRACK COORDINATORS
* Michael (Mike) Papazoglou, E-mail: mikep@kub.nl
Tilburg University, Director INFOLAB, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg,
The Netherlands Phone: +31 13 466-2349, Fax : +31 13 466-3069
* Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, E-mail: afrodite@di.uoa.gr
University of Athens, Department of Informatics,
TYPA Buildings, Panepistimiopolis, Athens 157 71, Greece
Phone: +30-1-727 5206, Fax: +30-1-727 5214
* Maria Tsakali, E-mail: tsakali.intracom@mail.interpac.be
INTRACOM S.A., Brussels Office, 20, Av. des Arts B-1000 Brussels BE
Phone: +32-2-2820391, Fax: +32-2-2308306
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Omran A. Bukhres, Purdue University, USA
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, MCC, Austin, Texas, USA
Jean-Marie Le Goff, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Peri Loucopoulos, U.M.I.S.T., Manchester, UK
Richard McClatchey, University of West England, UK
Tim Merrett, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
C. Mohan, IBM Almaden, USA
Alexandros Moukas, MIT Media Labs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Adam Nabil, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Arne Solvberg, University of Trondheim, Norway
Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany
Paul Timmers, European Commission, DG 3, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Waidner, IBM Research Division, Zurich, Switzerland
Hans Weigand, University of Tilburg, NL
Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland, USA
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HICSS-32 consists of eight tracks:
Collaboration Systems and Technology Track
Digital Documents Track
Emerging Technologies Track
Health Care Track
Internet and the Digital Economy
Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems
Organizational Systems and Technology Track
Software Technology Track
For more information about these tracks and a list of
minitracks each consist of, please check the HICSS web page
http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
Or contact the Track Administrator, Eileen Dennis, at
edennis@uga.edu
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