4th International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems

June 26-28, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce

in cooperation with

The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of the WWW have created a tremendous opportunity for conducting business on the Internet. The terms e-commerce and e-business have been used to describe those systems and technologies that make conducting business on the Internet possible. The purpose of this workshop is to identify and explore the technical and related technology management issues and solutions for e-commerce on the Internet. In particular, we are interested in the infrastructure issues to facilitate e-commerce and Web-based information systems. The WECWIS workshop is to be a forum for free exchange of ideas. Particularly welcome are reports on experimental work, experience with current standards and position papers addressing current and future needs of e-commerce and Web-based information systems. The best papers will be selected for a special issue of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal.

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

• Personalization and content management for e-commerce systems
• Real-time Internet delivery technologies and scheduling protocols
• Content distribution, caching and collaborative proxies
• Security issues for e-commerce systems
• Data mining techniques for e-commerce systems
• Web-based information systems
• Java technologies for e-commerce systems
• QoS support in e-commerce systems
• E-commerce based business models and architectures
• Technologies for revenue management and flexible pricing
• Integration of e-commerce servers with legacy systems
• Web content hosting and replication
• Transaction and work-flow management for e-commerce systems
• User interface support for e-commerce
• Auction and negotiation technology
• Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
• Dynamic pricing
• Collaborative Commerce
• Mobile Commerce

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit regular papers, reports on work in progress, as well as proposals for panel discussions. The paper should not exceed 22 double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch pages (including figures, tables and references) in 10-12 point font. The title page should include a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, full mailing address, e-mail address, phone numbers, and a designated contact author. Work in progress submissions should be marked as such on the title page. Submission should be made electronically and must arrive by midnight (EST) on the submission due date.

Submissions from graduate students are especially welcome. The registration for a limited number of graduate students will be free (please contact Jen-Yao Chung).

Electronic Submission: E-mail one PDF version of your manuscript to the program chair at wecwis02@us.ibm.com.

Important Dates

• 5 January 2002 Submission of papers (extended until 19 January 2002)
• 15 March 2002 Notification of acceptance
• 12 April 2002 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due
• 26-28 June 2002 Workshop

Organizers

• General Chair: Kwei-Jay Lin, UCI
• Industrial Chair: Lucy Cherkasova, HP, USA
• Program Co-Chairs: Martin Bichler and Jen-Yao Chung, IBM, USA
• Publicity Chair: Christof Weinhardt, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Publication Chair: Sang Hyuk Son, University of Virginia, USA
• Web Chair: Haifei Li, IBM, USA
• WIP Chair: Anindya Datta, Georgia Inst of Techn., USA

Program Committee

• K. Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
• E. Bertino, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• L. Bing, Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
• A. Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• H.-U. Buhl, Univ. of Augsburg, Germany
• A. Celik, Santa Clara University, USA
• D. Chen, Zhejiang Univ., China
• M.-S. Chen, NTU, Taiwan
• L. Cherkasova, HP, USA
• S. Field, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
• M. Freeman, CSC, USA
• B. Gavish, Vanderbilt University, USA
• S. Helal, Univ. of Florida, USA
• G. Kersten, Concordia University, Canada
• W. Koenig, Frankfurt University, Germany
• N. Komoda, Osaka Univ., Japan
• R. Krishnan, CMU, USA
• V. Kumar, Univ. of Missouri Kansas City, USA
• W. Lamersdorf, Hamburg University, Germany
• G. Mueller, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
• S. Narasimhan, GIT, USA
• G. Neumann, WU Vienna, Austria
• G. Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
• K. Ramamritham, IIT-Bombay, India
• W. Sanders, Univ. of Illinois, USA
• B. Schmid, Univ. of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• M.-C. Shan, HP, USA
• M. Shaw, University of Illinois, USA
• S. Shim, San Jose State U., USA
• S. Son, Univeristy of Virginia, USA
• S. Su, University of Florida, USA
• A Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria
• J. Tsai, UIC, USA
• C. Weinhardt, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
• H. Werthner, itc, Italy
• K.-L. Wu, IBM Research, USA
• W. Zhao, Texas A&M Univ., USA
• P. In, Texas A&M Univ., USA