The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce
August 14-16, 2006
Delta Fredericton
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Call for Workshop / Tutorial Proposals

Call for Papers ( PDF file )

The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) brings together the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. Making its first trip to Canada, ICEC’06 will feature invited presentations, high-level panels, refereed paper presentations, tutorials and workshops aimed at taking stock of e-commerce today and at uncovering future opportunities and challenges. In addition, ICEC’06 will focus on bringing together academic researchers and industry leaders in an effort to connect the needs of businesses in the marketplace with leading edge technologies.

While more and more people do business on the Internet each year, statistics show that the volume of online transactions is still a small fraction of worldwide expenditures. The theme of ICEC’06 will focus on the discovery of innovative techniques and technologies that strive to identify and overcome such difficulties, and set the foundation for new research endeavours that will allow e-commerce to grow much more rapidly in the years to come. ICEC’06 will be organized into seven tracks:

High-quality papers in all e-Commerce related areas which, at the time of submission, have not been published, accepted for publication or submitted for review are welcome. 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. The best papers from ICEC’06 will be invited for submission to a special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA).

Author Instructions

Submissions are encouraged as long papers (maximum of 12 pages) or short papers (maximum of 5 pages). Papers must be submitted in either Word or PDF, according to the ACM Proceedings Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Note that authors of accepted short papers will be allowed to make a very short presentation during the main sessions, and will be invited to display a poster.

Important Dates

Call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals

The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2006) invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held at Delta Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada on August 14-16, 2006.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should include:

1. Title of the workshop or tutorial.

2. Description of topic(s) and content(s) of the workshop or tutorial.

3. Detailed contact information of the workshop organizer(s) or tutorial presenter(s).

4. Length (half day or one day) of the proposed workshop or tutorial.

5. Estimate number of participants.

6. Schedule and agenda of the workshop or tutorial

7. Resources (other than room) required to be provided by the conference organizer.

8. Proposals should be related to the themes of the conference:

If you have any inquiry about proposing a workshop or tutorial, please contact the ICEC Program Chairs at programchairs@icec06.net

Please submit your workshop or tutorial proposal by e-mail to the ICEC Program Chairs at programchairs@icec06.net

Important Dates for Workshop/Tutorial

Tracks
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Multiagent Systems and Electronic Markets
Chairs:
Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Filip Perich, Cougaar Software, USA
Agents, multi-agent systems and market-based mechanisms applied to ecommerce. Auction models and automated market places/exchanges/technology, market clearing and winner determination, game theoretic/economic foundations, agent-based methods. Agent-mediated electronic commerce, trading agents, supply chain management and optimization.
Speaker:
Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, USA

Semantic Web Ontologies, Rules, and Services
Chairs:
Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Harold Boley, National Research Council Canada
Seeking papers for all three (Semantic) Web technology layers, and their combinations, as relevant for e-commerce applications. Ontologies permit to specify, standardize, and formalize the conceptualization of a business domain, rules can be utilized to model (onto)logical/empirical constraints, business policies and government regulations, while services enable us to describe (e.g., with rules) business workflows and processes for web service discovery, composition, choreography, execution, monitoring, and recovery.
Speaker:
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Privacy, Security and Trust
Chair:
Mark Dibben, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University , Singapore
Privacy enhancing technologies, identity and trust management, network and wireless security, intrusion detection, representations and formalizations of trust, PST challenges in eHealth, eLearning, eGovernment and eCommerce, digital rights management, lawful surveillance, reputation, handling spam, anonymity, identity theft, RFID technologies
Speaker:
Steve Marsh, National Research Council Canada

E-government, Policy and Law
Chairs:
Francesco Bolici Luiss University, Italy
Alessandro D'Atri, Luiss "Guido Carli" University, Italy
Intends to assess the state of the art in e-government/governance, including related laws and policies, and to provide guidance for research, development and applications. Innovative research and studies of e-government projects and of systems implementation are especially welcomed. F ameworks and guidelines for e-government, e-governance and e-democracy, e-government policies, strategies and implementation. Methods and tools for e-government research.
Speaker:
Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics, UK

Mobile and Pervasive Commerce
Chairs:
Els van de Kar, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Topics include: Technologies and solutions for m-commerce, architectures for integrating mobile service in daily life and work, localisation and personalisation technology, agent technologies. Security and privacy issues, pull and push mobile services, location-dependent mobile services, mobile payment services, mobile workforce management, mobile commerce strategies and implications. Building mobile applications, technology convergence (e.g. wLAN/3G), component based design, analysis and design approaches for mobile services.
Speaker:
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Business-to-Business E-Commerce
Chairs:
Patrick Y. K. Chau, University of Hong Kong,
Jae Kyu Lee, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
B2B is the major portion of E-Commerce activities. However, many third party exchanges suffer in making their business successful. B2B standards and ebXML are not widely accepted in the real world as we have anticipated. Understanding the exact reason why seems one of the fundamental research that we have to investigate. For this purpose, we need to understand the characteristics of B2B activities and corporates' real needs, cost, and situation for collaboration, phenomena from the perspective of technology of agents and interoperability and also from the social political perspective of motivation.
Speaker:
Mike Shaw, University of Illinois, USA

Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce
Chairs:
Khaled Hassanein, McMaster University, Canada
Milena Head, McMaster University, Canada
This track seeks to explore the successes and failures of B2C e-Commerce with an objective to identify the barriers and facilitators of this sector. Suitable topics for this track may include, but are not limited to: Effective B2C business models, social, cultural, usability and logistical issues in B2C. Web data mining, online consumer behaviour, customer adoption studies, online advertising, online pricing, channel conflict and disintermediation
Speaker:
Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra