ICEC

Mission
The adoption and ubiquity of modern Internet access offers a number of varied opportunities for innovation and improvement of businesses. Over recent years developments have led to a shift in the way business is conducted, from providing new and innovative service frameworks for B2B, to increasingly sophisticated Web 2.0 services to improve the B2C user experience. At the same time advances in the use of devices, as well as AI techniques have provided better and more varied access to e-commerce systems as well as facilitating greater autonomy in the way business is conducted. The Internet provides unique opportunities for individuals, businesses and governments to seek new ways of providing novel services. Although many challenges remain advances in Service Oriented Architectures and Semantic Web have opened up new models and avenues for research and exploitation.
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) provides a forum to share invaluable experience of efficient practices and pitfalls in strategy planning, design, development, engineering and implementation of e-services. After having been hosted in Canada, China and The Netherlands the ICEC'08 is held in Innsbruck, Austria.

ICEC features

• invited keynote presentations
• panels on topical issues on technology, business and public policy
• refereed paper presentations on emerging and continuing research issues
• workshops and tutorials and
• posters and demonstrations

The conference focuses on the latest developments and innovations in e-commerce in the following areas of interest:

1. Business-to-business e-commerce: adoption of IOS, technologies for interoperable processes, and e-collaboration for global reach
2. Business-to-consumer e-commerce: trends, problem areas, and solutions with emphasis on emerging markets
3. E-government, policy and law: state-of-the-art and future regulation of e-commerce, including public strategies in limiting illicit activities and copyright violations
4. Business/Enterprise Architectures: state-of-the-art and strategies for unifying extended enterprise resource base
5. Mobile and pervasive commerce: alternative interaction metaphors that facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to users in novel environments
6. Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent, decentralized systems, that utilized AI-based and game-theoretic approaches to facilitate both heuristic and theoretically sound decision making
7. Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services: decentralized knowledge-based systems and methodologies that support the exchange of information (including workflows, policies, services and ontological knowledge) in dynamic and heterogeneous environments.

Next Event
August 12-15, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan
http://icec09.org/

History
STI International contributes to the success of ICEC as a local organizer and one of the sponsors.

Steering Committee
Chair:
Hannes Werthner, Technical University of Vienna, AT

Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, AT
Mark S. Fox, University of Toronto, CA
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
Robert J. Kauffman, Arizona State University, USA
Jae Kyu Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR
Terry R. Payne, University of Liverpool, UK
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bruce Spencer, National Research Council, CA
J. Christopher Westland, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Former Events
http://icec.net/