I3E 2008

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

the Eighth IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2008) September 24 - 26, 2008 National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, JAPAN http://www.i3e2008.org/



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The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society will be held from September 24-26, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Being sponsored by IFIP WG 6.11 in cooperation with TC 11 and TC 8, it will provide a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society applications and in the underlying technology to support these applications.

)From submitted papers, thirty papers, including twenty-six for the research track and four for the industrial and administration track, were accepted for presentation at I3E 2008 and publication by Springer Science & Business Media within IFIP series. The accepted papers cover various aspect of sustainable society on ubiquitous networks, including user behavior models, security and trust, P2P, SOA, Web autonomy, legal and ethical issues, societal and cultural issues, and practices on government systems.

[Keynote speeches] - "Future Outlook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Services" by Dr. Takeshi Mizuike, the Vice President and Chief Executive Director at KDDI R&D Laboratories - "How salesforce.com Changes Information Technology" by Mr. Adam Gross, Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing at salesforce.com - "SOUNDS FROM UTOPIA: Critical Issues of the Web 2.0 Perspective in the Network Society" by Prof. Dr. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk at University of Twente

[Panel sessions] - "How P2P technology drives e-Society" Chair: Dr. Tadao Saito, Prof. Emeritus of the University of Tokyo Panelist: Mr. Y. Taniwaki (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan), Mr. H. Tan (Skype Technologies), Mr. M. Volpi (Joost), Prof. T. Asami (the University of Tokyo) - "RFID can create Ubiquitous Network Society?" Chair: Prof. Shiro Sakata (Chiba University) Panelist: Prof. N. Koshizuka (the University of Tokyo), Mr. H. Tagato (NEC), Mr. N. Hayashi (Sony), Mr. D. Kimball (United States Department of Defense)

VENUE

The conference venue is the National Center of Sciences in central Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities of high technology, commerce, culture, and fashion. The Center is in front of the Emperor's Palace and within 30 minutes of almost all of the highlights of Tokyo, including Akihabara electric town, Tsukiji fish market, the Shogun's garden, and the National Museum.

REGISTRATION

Registration to I3E 2008 is possible through the conference Web site: http://www.i3e2008.org/registration.html. Registration before August 7th will be discounted.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

For further information, please visit our Web site at http://www.i3e2008.org/ or e-mail info@i3e2008.org.

COMMITTEES

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair: Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Japan General Chair: Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan PC Chair: Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan PC Vice Chair: Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Local Steering Committee Chair: Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan Local Steering Committee co-Chair: Terutoshi Sano, The Association for Promotion of                 Public Local Information, Japan Local Steering Committee Vice Chair: Ken Kobayashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Finance Chair: Hiroshi Yajima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Finance co-Chair: Shigehisa Honma, The Association for Promotion of                 Public Local Information, Japan Local Arrangements Chair: Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Local Arrangements Vice Chair: Soichi Furuya, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Publication Chair: Chizuko Yasunobu, Hitachi Consulting, Japan Publication Vice Chairs: Katsunari Yoshioka, Yokohama National University, Japan Nakazato Junji, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Publicity Chair: Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Panel Chair: Shiro Sakata, Chiba University, Japan Orgnized Session Chair: Osamu Sudoh, the University of Tokyo, Japan Members: Toyoyuki Kobayashi, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan Hirokazu Konishi, NEC Corporation, Japan Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan Local Steering Committee Secretary: Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Liaison Chairs IFIP: Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Europe: Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany North America: Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA South America: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil Asia-Pacific: Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Steering Committee Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I3E2008 will be held in cooperation with Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan and it is partly supported by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP