LIST OF TOPICS

The TCEC's technical areas (but not limited to) are listed below. 

• Agent-mediated e-commerce 
• Ad-hoc collaboration technology 
• Auction and negotiation technology 
• Automated shopping and trading 
• Autonomic Computing
• 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 
• Grid Computing
• 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 
• Web Services