List of Topics

The following list provides topics relevant to the TC on e-Commerce:

• Agent-mediated e-commerce
• Ad-hoc collaboration technology
• Auction and negotiation technology
• Automated shopping and trading
• Business process reengineering for e-commerce
• Case studies in electronic commerce
• Consumer protection in electronic commerce
• Costs and benefit aspects
• Commerce-oriented middleware services
• Competitive strategies
• Computational markets for information services
• Content creation & management
• Economic analysis
• E-commerce education
• E-sourcing
• E-market and exchange infrastructures
• Information economies
• Innovative business models
• Intellectual property license management
• Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts
• Legal issues
• Marketing and advertising technology
• Online transactions for community and non-profit services
• Payment and exchange protocols
• Performance evaluation and testing of e-commerce systems
• Privacy issues
• Recommendation and referral systems
• Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues
• Security and cryptographic issues, methods and applications
• Shopping tools
• Social, organizational and cross-cultural implications of new technologies
• Software requirements and architectures for e-commerce
• Standards for electronic commerce
• Supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
• User interface support for e-commerce
• Visualization of e-commerce data and systems