EC-Web 2012 - 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies

EC-Web 2012 covers the following list of topics. The bullet list of each topic is not exhaustive, but should demonstrate typical topics of interest

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 & Business Intelligence:

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

Industrial application of recommendation technologies
Consumer decision making and consumer buying behavior models
Computational advertising
Reputation and Trust in recommender systems
Context-aware recommender systems
Recommender systems and social networks
Diversification of recommendations and Serendipity
Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
Explanations in recommender systems
Evaluation of recommender systems
Semantic e-business:

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
Semantic reasoning about business data
Information extraction for business applications
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
GENERAL CHAIR
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria