EM2I 2010 - The 4th Workshop on E-Marketplace Integration and Interoperability (EM2I'10)

The 4th International Workshop on E-Marketplace Integration and Interoperability (EM2I'10)
(November 10-12, 2010, Shanghai, China, in conjunction with ICEBE 2010)
The 2010 International Workshop on E-Marketplace Integration & Interoperability (EM2I'10) is a venue for presenting state-of-the-art research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of integration technology for e-marketplaces that affect business interoperability between enterprise information systems, within supply chains, and between fragmented e-marketplaces. EM2I'10 is a research forum to achieve a globally and semantically interoperable common business information space where consumers, enterprises and governments can collaboratively work together in mutually-beneficial electronic and virtual markets.

The workshop solicits paper submissions in a wide range of related topics, including, but not limited to, the following:

E-marketplace integration
Business vocabulary integration
Business document integration
Business process integration
Languages describing business vocabularies, documents and processes
Semantic inference on e-marketplaces
Multi-agent systems
Human-computer collaboration systems
Semantic inference engines
Business rules and rule languages
E-marketplace functions
Demand and supply matching
Electronic marketing systems
Electronic procurement systems
Electronic contract systems
Electronic payment systems
Electronic logistics systems
Electronic warehousing systems
Electronic customs systems
Electronic quality inspection systems
Electronic banking systems
E-marketplace protection systems
Virtual marketplaces
Virtual communities
Virtual worlds
Virtual product development systems
Virtual money systems
Virtual money exchange systems
Dynamic virtual enterprise formation
Case analysis of virtual marketplace such as XStreet SL
Legal infrastructure of e-marketplaces and virtual marketplaces
Social computing in electronic and virtual marketplaces
Social navigation for customer search
Social interoperation for marketplace support
Social collaboration for transaction facilitation
We solicit original unpublished full papers of both technical and empirical aspects. Papers should be submitted in IEEE conference paper format and should not exceed 6 pages. Maximum of two additional pages is allowed for US$150/page. Each paper will undergo a blind review process and typically be reviewed by two to three members of the Program Committee. All papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings of ICEBE 2010, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and made available in the IEEE Digital Library.

All papers are EI-indexed. The paper submission will take place using EasyChair at following link:
URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=em2i10

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract registration deadline: June 22, 2010
Paper submission: July 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: August 5, 2010
Workshop Chairs
Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau, Macau
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Workshop Program Committee
Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hsueh-Hsien, Chang, Jiwen University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Chun-hui Piao, Shijiazhuang Railway Institute, China
Haifeng Shen, Flinders University, Australia
Athanassios Tsadiras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Rolf T. Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
T. Andrew Yang, University of Houston (Clear Lake), USA
Lida Xu, Old Dominion University, USA
Yan Zhuang, University of Macau, Macao
Joe Zou, IBM Software Group, Australia