This is the final call for papers for the
International IFIP Working Conference on
Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce to be held
in Hamburg,Germany, June 3-5th, 1998.
As we found your name and email address in some way related to
distributed systems or electronic commerce we assume you may be
interested in this event. We apologize if you receive this
announcement several times. Please note that the Conference has
been extended to three days.
For detailed information in this event please follow this link:
http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98/
For the program committee,
W. Lamersdorf and M. Merz
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| FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS |
| International IFIP Working Conference on |
| Trend in Distributed Systems for |
| ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 98 |
| Hamburg, Germany, June 3-5, 1998 |
| Papersubmission until December 8, 1997 |
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Electronic Commerce is currently one of the fastest growing and
most practically relevant application areas of distributed systems
technologies. It is based on the economic aspects of commercial
trading patterns combined with distributed computing systems
technology. It is a market environment that is characterized by
low transaction costs, a large number of market participants,
and facile online access to services and goods offered. It also
implies a set of rules and policies for the successful organization
of business transactions.
Accordingly, open computer networks supporting commercial
transactions show respective characteristics such as
- a systems infrastructure that provides easy access to any kind
of services (for both service providers as well as consumers),
- a reasonable level of standardization for software components
and communication protocols,
- appropriate supporting functions such as locating services,
accounting, security, and notarization, etc.
Technically, these mechanisms support, e.g., distributed open
and secure multimedia environments, service trading and brokerage
functions, mobile and distributed software concepts, component-based
development tools, etc.
Consequently, Electronic Commerce is an area where distributed
systems technologies have to meet the requirements of advanced
applications that span locational as well as organizational
boundaries. Therefore, potential Electronic Commerce service
providers and users as well as researchers and implementers of
emerging Electronic Commerce systems or components are invited to
contribute with their individual experiences and research results
in order to exchange their respective views with colleagues from
both research and industry at the conference.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Economic Market Models and Foundations
- Architectures for Electronic Marketplaces
- Business Transaction Support
- EDI vs. Internet
- Workflow Management for Electronic Markets
- System Support for Distributed Applications
- Platforms: WWW, CORBA, Java, and beyond
- Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Mobile Computing and Mobile Agent Systems
- Trading and Information Brokerage
- Service Specification, Quality of Service
- Security & Payment Functions
- Multimedia Shopping Malls and Kiosk Systems
- Distributed Digital Library Applications
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
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Paper Submissions until : December 8, 1997
Acceptance notification : February 1, 1998
Camera-ready paper due : March 15, 1998
Early bird registration until : April 17, 1998
INFORMATION FOR PAPERSUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit papers until December 8, 1997.
The Conference Proceedings will be published as a volume of
Springer LNCS.
Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (12 point font "Times"
with 1.5 line spacing). The title page should include the
corresponding main author's full name, complete postal and
e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, an abstract,
and keywords.
We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers in
Postscript format.
Please send your submissions via e-mail to:
ec98@vsys.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Alternatively you can use anonymous ftp
ftp://vsys1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
or follow the hints given on our webpage
http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98/submission.html
REGISTRATION FEES
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Please refer to out web-page
http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98/
in the subsection registration.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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W. Lamersdorf, M. Merz, Hamburg University, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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N. Adam, Rutgers University, USA
B. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
G. Blair, University of Lancaster, UK
F. Caneschi, Finsiel, Italy
W. Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland
K. Crowston, Syracuse University, NY, USA
J. Cunningham, Imperial College London, UK
K. Geihs, University of Frankfurt, Germany
L. Huguet, University of the Baleares, Spain
G. Karjoth, IBM Rueschlikon, Switzerland
C. Linnhoff-Popien, RWTH Aachen, Germany
H. de Meer, Hamburg University, Germany
Z. Milosevic, DSTC, Australia
M. Muehlhäuser, University of Linz, Austria
J. Posegga, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
A. Puder, ICSI/Berkeley, USA
K. Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany
A. Schill, Techn. University of Dresden, Germany
B. Schmid, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
G. Schuermann, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
J. Slonim, University of Toronto, Canada
R. Soley, OMG, USA
O. Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
R. Steinmetz, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
D. O'Sullivan, IONA, Ireland
A. Vogel, Visigenic, USA
Y. Yesha, NASA, USA
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| Further Information may be obtained from the EC98 Web Site: |
| http://vsys-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/ec98 |
| Contact and further information: merz@informatik.uni-hamburg.de|
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