ECRA 2016 - Special Issue on knowledge-based systems for the support of electronic commerce and business processes (ECRA)

The development of electronic commerce and business transactions is increasing progressively. Thanks to this development we are able to perform electronically different activities such as searching products and services, electronic payments, negotiating and establishing contracts, dynamic generation of supply chain links, auctions, marketing and advertising, etc.
Knowledge-based technologies provide a consistent and reliable basis to face the challenges for organization, manipulation and visualization of the data and knowledge, playing a crucial role as the technological basis of the development of a large number of intelligent systems. More concretely, the field of electronic commerce/business has an important synergy with the field of knowledge-based since its use has allowed the representation of knowledge in e-commerce/business allowing sharing information between systems and the personalisation and automatization of processes. Thus, different system such as recommender systems for e-commerce/business or e-commerce/business agent-mediated system has been developed in the last few years that facilitate transactions.
The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the synergy and the benefits of applying ontologies and semantics in electronic commerce/business systems. This special issue aims to explore the relationships and interactions between these technologies and give insights on the recent advances in these topics by soliciting original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical and experimental research and case studies.
Topics
In this special issue we welcome contributions on the following topics (but are not limited to):
- Design and modeling of knowledge-based systems for different scenarios of e-commerce and e-business such as:
-- Goods, products, services and catalogs
-- Contracts
-- Recommender systems for electronic commerce/business applications
-- Electronic Business
-- Electronic Payment Systems
-- Composition of business processes
- Knowledge-based approaches for electronic commerce/business interoperability
- Applications, evaluations, and experiences with ontologies and semantics in the following kind of e-commerce/business systems:
-- Auctions
-- Personalization systems
-- B2B relationships
-- Negotiations
-- Electronic Payment Systems
-- Electronic contracts
- Knowledge-based infrastructures providing security, privacy, trust, electronic signatures, access control, etc that help to support e-commerce/business transactions
- Ontological and semantic evaluation of e-commerce/business systems
- Knowledge-based Personalization of e-commerce/business services
- Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies in electronic commerce/business applications
Important dates
Deadline for submission of papers: 31 Oct 2015
Authors to receive a 1st decision by: 30 Feb 2016
Final notification of acceptance: 28 Jul 2016
On-line and print publication: (subject to Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Schedule)
Submissions
Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the field of ontologies and semantics in electronic commerce/business systems, as well as their suitability to the special issue, and for their overall quality. Contributions are accepted for review on the understanding that the same work has not been published and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Substantially revised (any paper directly identifiable as a post-conference update will not be accepted) versions of papers published in conference proceedings can also be submitted. In this case, the original paper should also be enclosed.
The Electronic Commerce Research and Applications is an international quality, peer reviewed journal covering that aims to create and disseminate enduring knowledge for the fast-changing e-commerce environment. For additional information regarding the journal and manuscript preparation, please visit http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-commer.... Impact Factor: 1.304
Guest Editors
Antonio Ruiz-Martínez
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
http://ants.inf.um.es/staff/arm
Email: arm-AT-um.es
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
Østfold University College, Norway
http://rcolomo.com/
Email: ricardo.colomo-palacios-AT-hiof.no
Rafael Valencia-García
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
http://webs.um.es/valencia/
Email: valencia-AT-um.es