Monday, August 14

Ballrooms A&B

Ballroom C

Ballroom D

Governor’s Room

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-10:10

Welcoming remarks

Dr. Andrew Reddick, National Research Council Canada

Keynote address

Dr. Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-12:00

Session 1: Natural Language and Information Extraction (Semantic Web Track)

Chair: Yuhong Yan

129 - An Extensible Text Extraction Tool for Learning Objects - Martin Dames, Yevgen Biletskiy

122 - From HTML Documents to Web Tables and Rules - Kai Simon, Georg Lausen, Harold Boley

24 - Choreography of Web Services based on Natural Language Storybooks - Kurt Englmeier, Javier Pereira, Josiane Mothe,

Session 2: Privacy and e-Identifiers (Privacy, Security and Trust Track)

Chair: Jingwei Huang

34 - An Analysis of P3P-Enabled Web Sites among Top-20 Search Results - Serge Egelman, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Abdur Chowdhurdy

44 - Privacy Intrusion Detection Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks - Xiangdong An, Dawn Jutla, Nick Cercone

74 - Identification in Electronic Networks: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Characteristics of e-Identifiers - Kayvan M. Lavassani, Bahar Movahedi, Vinod Kumar

Session 3: Automated Negotiation and Decision Making (Multiagent Systems Track)

Chair: Harrison McKnight

75 - A Decentralized Model for Multi-attribute Negotiations - Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara, Laurens Debo, Cuihong Li

95 - Detecting Opponent Concessions in Multi-Issue Automated Negotiation - Scott Buffett, Luc Comeau, Bruce Spencer, Michael W. Fleming

103 - Passive Verification of the Strategyproofness of Mechanisms in Open Environments - Laura Kang, David Parkes

12:00-1:30

Lunch, Keynote address

Dr. Steve Marsh, National Research Council Canada

1:30-2:50

Session 4: Mobile Issues in Business Models (Mobile and Pervasive Track)

Chair: Carleen Maitland

58 - Enabling intelligent B-to-B eCommerce supply chain management using RFID and the EPC Network: A case study in the retail industry - Samuel Fosso Wamba, Louis A, Lefebvre, Élisabeth Lefebvre

92 - A Pervasive Comparison Shopping Business Model for Integrating Offline and Online Marketplace - Kyoung Jun Lee, Young Hwan Seo

137 - Towards Flexible Mobile Payment via Mediator-based Service Model - Charles Chong, Hui-Na Chua, Cheng Suan Lee

Session 5: E-Government Services and Organization (E-government, Policy and Law Track)

Chair: David Parkes

20 - E-Campus—Design and implementation of college and faculty digital office system -  Li Hongxin, Ma Gang, Jiang Ming, Cui Lili

35 - Governance of Shared Service Centers in Public Administration - Rene Wagenaar

142 - A Study on Success Factors of Logistics IT Companies - Nam Kyu Park, Gye Eui Song, Hyung Rim Choi, Chang Sup Lee, Chan Woo Kim, Joong Jo Shin

Session 6: Online Trust (Privacy, Security and Trust Track)

Chair: Jo Lumsden

16 - Trusting Advice from Other Buyers in E-Marketplaces: The Problem of Unfair Ratings - Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen

47 - Perspectives of Online Trust and Similar Constructs - A Conceptual Clarification-Sonja Grabner, Ewald A. Kaluscha, Marliese Fladnitzer

128 - Model and Method for Evaluating Creditability of C2C Electronic Trade - Lifang Peng, Zhong Chen, Qi Li

2:50-3:15

Coffee Break

Monday, August 14 (continued)

3:15-5:00

Session 7: Managing Supply Chains (B2B Track)

Chair: Markus Schmees

121 - A Framework for Managing Optimization Models for Supply Chain Software Agents - Jae Kyu Lee, Yong Sik Chang

15 - Electronic Commerce and the Strategic Management of Deep-sea Container Shipping Companies: An Exploratory Survey Analysis - Eladio Penaloza, Mary Brooks, Sunny Marche

Session 8: E-Shopping Decision Support and Trust (B2C Track)

Chair: Serge Egelman

5 - Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) for B2C E-Commerce - Faisal Al-Qaed, Alistair Sutcliffe

23 - Designing Recommender Systems for E-Commerce: An Integration Approach -Thomas Tran

57 - How Does Personality Affect Trust in B2C e-Commerce? - Joanna Lumsden, Lisa MacKay

90 - Distrust and Trust in B2C E-Commerce: Do They Differ? - D. Harrison McKnight, Vivek Choudhury

Session 9: Auctioning and Allocation Mechanisms (Multiagent Systems Track)

Chair: Michael Fleming

62 - Capacity Allocation with Competitive Retailers - Masabumi Furuhata, Dongmo Zhang

49 - Practical Secrecy-Preserving, Verifiably Correct and Trustworthy Auctions - D. C. Parkes, M. O. Rabin, S. M. Shieber, C. A. Thorpe

83 - Sequential versus simultaneous auctions: A case study - Shaheen Fatima

89 - Adaptive Mechanism Design: A Metalearning Approach - David Pardoe,

Peter Stone, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Kerem Tomak

Short paper session I:

Chair: Burke Ward

36 - Barriers and Solutions to the Development of Online Advertising in China - Bao Xin Ren, Ding Li Ying

39 - IOS standards in the insurance branch network: Impact on market dynamics in The Netherlands - Alea Fairchild

48 - A Review of Electronic Signatures Regulations: Do They Facilitate or Impede International Electronic Commerce? – Minyan Wang

50 - E-Commerce Today and Tomorrow: A Truly Generalized and Active Framework for the Definition of Electronic Commerce -Yewsiang Poong, Khaliq-Ul Zaman, Mohammad Talha

53 - Web Based Information For Product Ranking In E-Business - A Fuzzy Approach-B.K.Mohanty, K.Passi

59 - RFID-enabled supply chain applications in a B2B e-commerce environment: A proof of concept - Ygal Bendavid, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Louis A. Lefebvre

70 - Optimal Supply Chain Formation Using Agent Negotiation in a SET Model-based Make-To-Order - Hyun Soo Kim, Jae Hyung Cho, Hyung Rim Choi, Soongoo Hong, Moo Hong Kang

61 - Building Learner’s Ontologies to Assist Personalized Search of Learning Objects -Igor Keleberda, Victoria Repka, Yevgen Biletskiy

5:15-7:45

Chartered city buses providing transportation between Delta and UNB

5:30-7:30

Reception (University of New Brunswick)

Tuesday, August 15

Ballrooms A&B

Ballroom C

Ballroom D

Governor’s Room

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-10:25

Keynote addresses:

Dr. Mike Shaw, University of Illinois

Dr. Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics

10:25-10:45

10:45-12:00

Session 10: E-Procurement (B2B Track)

Chair: Kurt Englmeier

133 - Business-To-Business E-Procurement Corporate Initiative - Rebecca Angeles

88 - Reducing barriers for e-business in SME’s through an open service oriented infrastructure - Mikkel Hippe Brun, Christian Lanng

77 - A Framework for Benchmarking E-Procurement in the AEC Industry- Yongjie Chen, Jeff H. Rankin

Session 11: E-Retailing (B2C Track)

Chair: Alun Preece

14 - Emergence of service-added model in B2C for small-sized companies - Taro Kamioka, Kazuhiko Yahata

64 - An Analysis on Price Matching Policy - Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara, Laurens Debo, Cuihong Li

84 - Website Optimization with Web Metrics: A Case Study - Birgit Weischedel, Eelko K.R.E. Huizingh

Session 12: Law, Taxation and Economics (E-government, Policy and Law Track)

Chair: Rene Wagenaar

43 - The Phenix Project: A Case Study of e-Justice in Belgium - Bruno de Vuyst, Alea Fairchild

69 - Globalization of Law and Electronic Commerce, Toward a Consistent International Regulatory Framework - Ali Zeinalabedin Marossi

94 - A Comparison of United States and European Union Taxation of E-Commerce- Burke T. Ward, Janice C. Sipior, Wayne G. Bremser, David B. McGinty

12:00-1:30

Lunch, Keynote address

Dr. Roger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Australia

1:30-2:50

MeRC Industry – Academia Brokerage Session

All conference attendees encouraged to participate

2:50-3:10

3:10-4:15

Breakout Group (B2B)

Breakout Group (B2C)

Breakout Group (Policy)

4:15-5:00

Breakout Groups Reconvene

6:00-10:00

Banquet

Brokerage wrapup-Dr. Khaled Hassanein

Keynote address

Julia McLauchlan

Wednesday, August 16

Ballrooms A&B

Ballroom C

Ballroom D

Governor’s Room

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

8:15-9:10

Keynote address

Dr. Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:10-10:25

Session 13: Supply Chain Optimization (Multiagent Systems Track)

Chair: Thomas Tran

78 - Pricing for Customers with Probabilistic Valuations as a Continuous Knapsack Problem - Michael Benisch, James Andrews, Norman Sadeh,

79 - CMieux: Adaptive Strategies for Competitive Supply Chains - Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, James Andrews, Norman Sadeh,

96 - Learning Inventory Management Strategies for Commodity Supply Chains with Customer Satisfaction - Jeroen van Luin, Eindhoven Han La Poutré, J. Will M. Bertrand

Session 14: Relationships and Interoperation (B2B Track)

Chair: Rebecca Angeles

54 - The Influence of the Buyer-Seller Relationship on e-Commerce Pressures: the Case of the Primary Metal Industry - Harold Boeck, Ygal Bendavid, Louis-A. Lefebvre, Élisabeth Lefebvre

55 - Inter-Enterprise Business Document Exchange - Jingzhi Guo

Session 15: Learning and Virtual Organisations (Semantic Web Track)

Chair: Yevgen Biletskiy

33 - Organizing Technology Enhanced Learning- Markus Schmees

123 - A Semantic Web Approach to Handling Soft Constraints in Virtual Organisations - Alun Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie, Jeff Z. Pan, Peter Gray

Short paper session II:

Chair: Sandy Liu

85 - Evolution of Portals and Stability of Information Ecology on the Web - Seonyoung Shim, Byungtae Lee

109 - A Context-Aware Mobile Service Discovery and Selection Mechanism using Artificial Neural Networks - Eyhab Al-Masri, Qusay H. Mahmoud

146 - Electronic Signatures: A brief review of the Literature  - Aashish Srivastava

Short paper session III:

Chair: Yan Wang

99 - Entrepreneurship in Mobile Application Development - Ankur Tarnacha, Carleen F. Maitland

136 - Economics of Online Music and Consumer Behavior - Marc Fetscherin

67 - Recommendation Algorithm combining the User-Based Classified Regression and the Item-based Filtering - Yu Chuan, Xu Jieping

10:25-10:45

 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00

Session 16: Policies and Services (Semantic Web Track)

Chair: Harold Boley

86 - A Policy Framework for Trading Configurable Goods and Services in Open Electronic Markets - Steffen Lamparter,, Anupriya Ankolekar, Daniel Oberle, Rudi Studer, Christof Weinhardt

91 - A semantic-based fully visual application for matchmaking and query refinement in B2C e-marketplaces- Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini, Azzurra Ragone, Raffaele Rizzi

112 - Service Level Agreements: An Ontological Approach - Les Green

Session 17: Trust and Threat Models (Privacy, Security and Trust Track)

Chair: Steve Marsh

31 – Distrust - Piotr Cofta

101 - An Ontology of Trust -- Formal Semantics and Transitivity - Jingwei Huang, Mark S. Fox

130 - Persistent Information Security: Beyond the eCommerce Threat Model - Merv Matson, Mihaela Ulieru

Session 18: Mobile Commerce Environments (Mobile and Pervasive Track)

Chair: Marc Fetscherin

76 - Mobile Services Used in Unstable Environments: Design Requirements based on Three Case Studies - Els van de Kar, Sam Muniafu, Yan Wang

102 - A multi-layer approach to the study of inter-organizational wireless infrastructure - Carleen Maitland, Annemijn van Gorp, Ankur Tarnacha, Rudi Westerveld

104 - A Payment & Receipt Business Model in U-Commerce Environment - Kyoung Jun Lee, Jeong-In Ju, Jeong Mu Joeng

12:00-1:30

Lunch, Keynote Address

Dr. Michael Wellman, University of Michigan

3:00-4:00

CARLETON CRUISE