EC-Web 2012

Topics
e-Business Architectures:

E-business architectures leverage Web Technologies to implement mission-critical e-business systems. Still there is a need for design principles, methods, and technologies for describing the structure of e-Business systems, its composition of subsystems, and their relationship with the external environment.


 * Enterprise Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
 * Business Collaboration Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
 * Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
 * Enterprise Architecture Design Principles
 * Architecture Quality Measurements
 * Legacy System Integration
 * Middleware Integration

--- Recommender Systems: ---

Recommender and business intelligence systems supporting both the customer side and the providers side in making better business decision is still a challenging issue.


 * Industrial application of recommendation technologies
 * Consumer search, decision making and consumer buying behavior models
 * Computational advertising
 * Reputation and Trust in recommender systems
 * Persuasion techniques and recommender systems
 * Context-aware recommender systems
 * Recommender systems and social networks
 * Crowdsourcing and collective intelligence
 * Novelty, diversity and serendipity
 * Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
 * Explanations in recommender systems

Semantic representation of e-business and e-commerce information:

Managing knowledge for the coordination of e-business processes through the systematic application of Semantic Web technologies is the focus of semantic e-business. It builds up on Semantic Web technologies, knowledge management and e-business processes. Challenges address the conceptualization how e-business related knowledge is captured, represented, shared, and processed by humans and intelligent software.


 * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing business data
 * Ontological engineering of business applications
 * Linked Open Data
 * Semantic reasoning about business data
 * Search, query, analysis, and integration of business data

Business Services and Process Management:

Business services focus on the alignment of business and IT allowing smoother business operations and business processes. This also allows for more effective business process management approaches concerning the design, modeling, execution, monitoring and optimization of business process life cycles.


 * Business/IT Alignment
 * Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
 * Service Identification, Modeling, and Granularity
 * Service Revenue Models
 * Service Engineering/Development Methods
 * Service-oriented Business Modeling
 * Software as a Service, Service as a Software
 * Business process modeling and analysis
 * SOA for business processes
 * Service-enabled workflow management systems

-- Agent-based E-Commerce: --

Agents are computer systems situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet their design objectives. Research on agent-based e-commerce has a vigorous tradition. However, new trends and concerns are emerging.


 * Agent Technology for E-Commerce
 * Agents in B2B and B2C E-Commerce
 * Partnership Formation and Brokering Mechanisms
 * Auctions and Automated Negotiation
 * Interaction Protocols and Mechanism Design
 * Argumentation-based Negotiation
 * Coalition Formation and Teams
 * Contracts and Contracting Issues
 * Electronic Voting and Market-Oriented Programming
 * E-Commerce Systems and Commercial Applications
 * E-Supply Chains and Virtual Organizations

--- E-Business Case Studies: ---

In constructive research, new prototypes to conduct e-business have emerged over the last couple of years. Although EC-Web focuses on new research ideas, we also welcome case studies that report on applying recent research results in real world environments, such as:


 * E-Procurement
 * E-Shops
 * E-Tendering, E-Auctions
 * E-Markets
 * E-Payment
 * Cross-enterprise solutions
 * Cross-border issues
 * Mobile e-Business
 * E-commerce and e-business APPification

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum.

Manuscripts will be limited to 12 (Springer LNBIP) pages. Please follow the format at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF) is required. Please submit your paper using the on-line submission system at http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2012/

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers are evaluated according to originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of exposition.

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of Springer series on "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing" (LNBIP).

At least one author is required to register and to present the paper

Committees

 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general chair::Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 * has general chair::Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
 * has PC member::Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
 * has PC member::Giuliano Armano, University of Cagliari, Italy
 * has PC member::Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia
 * has PC member::Marko Boskovic, Research Studios Austria
 * has PC member::Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Robin Burke, De Paul University, USA
 * has PC member::Maria Laura Caliusco, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
 * has PC member::Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 * has PC member::Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * has PC member::Sven Casteleyn, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
 * has PC member::Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
 * has PC member::Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy
 * has PC member::Kuo-Ming Chao, University of Coventry
 * has PC member::Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
 * has PC member::Marco Comuzzi, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Florian Daniel, University of Trento - DISI
 * has PC member::Antonina Dattolo, University of Udine, Italy
 * has PC member::Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Ernesto William De Luca, DAI-Labor, Germany
 * has PC member::Tommaso Di Noia, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Damiani Ernesto, Universitá degli Studi di Milano
 * has PC member::Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, Austria
 * has PC member::Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics
 * has PC member::Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy
 * has PC member::Michele Gorgoglione, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau
 * has PC member::Chang Heng, Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, P.R.China
 * has PC member::Birgit Hofreiter, TU Vienna
 * has PC member::Leo Iaquinta, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
 * has PC member::Robert Jäschke, University of Kassel, Germany
 * has PC member::Alípio Mário Jorge, University of Porto, Protugal
 * has PC member::Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA
 * has PC member::Christoph Lattemann, Jacobs University
 * has PC member::Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim
 * has PC member::Philipp Liegl, TU Vienna
 * has PC member::Andre Ludwig, University of Leipzig
 * has PC member::Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Andrea Maurino, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
 * has PC member::Stuart E. Middleton, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Fedelucio Narducci, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Alex Norta, University of Helsinki
 * has PC member::Umberto Panniello, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Christian Pichler, TU Vienna
 * has PC member::Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Szabolcs Rozsnyai, IBM Research
 * has PC member::Andreas Schönberger, University of Bamberg
 * has PC member::Giovanni Semeraro, Univeristy of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy
 * has PC member::Jun Shen, University of Wollongong
 * has PC member::Yan Tang, VUB STARLab
 * has PC member::Eloisa Vargiu, Barcelona Digital, Spain
 * has PC member::Andreas Wombacher, University Twente
 * has PC member::Jih-Shyr Yih, IBM Research
 * has PC member::Markus Zanker, University Klagenfurt, Austria
 * has PC member::Marco Zapletal, TU Vienna
 * has PC member::Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna