Special Track on "Electronic Commerce on the Internet"
in conjunction with
EUROMED-NET'98
The Role of Internet and the World Wide Web
in Developing the Euro-Mediterranean Information Society
(http://www.euromednet.ucy.ac.cy)
4-7 March 1998
Hilton Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus
*** Submission Deadline: 20 January 1998 ***
THEME
Electronic commerce is a generic term that encompasses numerous
information technologies and services used to improve business
practices ranging from customer service to inter-corporation
coordination. Electronic commerce is not a single uniform technology,
but rather characterized by a wide range of services and operations,
including: establishment of initial contacts, suppliers search and
negotiation; exchange of information; sales; pre- and post-sales
support; electronic payment; distribution logistics; establishment
and coordination of virtual enterprises; shared business processes;
etc. In all of its forms, electronic commerce makes use of
information technologies from very different areas: databases,
transaction processing, interoperability of heterogeneous
information resources, intelligent agents, multimedia systems,
security and workflow systems, distributed processing and mobile
computing, to name but a few.
The electronic commerce services that are established so far are
still far from being mature. There is no real integration of the
underlying technologies, and the provided services lack many
important but also more challenging features. This track aims to
bring together researchers and practitioners from key technology
areas to address complementary research and development issues
for the purpose of creating the synergy to produce further joint
research projects.
Topics to be covered by the track are listed below, split into
two categories, namely horizontal and vertical areas.
The horizontal areas to be addressed are:
- Dataweb Technology
- Database systems and multimedia systems in support of electronic
commerce
- Workflow technology in support of electronic commerce
- Transaction management and electronic commerce
- Intelligent agents and electronic commerce
- Security and electronic commerce
- Electronic payment systems
- Standards in middleware and data exchange
- Methodologies for multimedia e-commerce systems
- Mobile computing platforms, access and standards
- Distributed Systems and Applications and Support Infrastructure
- Middleware platforms and languages (CORBA, Java, etc.)
- Coordination Models and Frameworks for seamless integration of
various components
The vertical areas to be addressed include but are not limited to:
- Tourism
- Healthcare
- Transport
- Textiles
- Maritime Industry
- Chemicals
- Distance Learning
- Legal aspects of electronic commerce
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission (ps file) 20 Jan. 1998
Notification 10 Feb. 1998
Final manuscript 28 Feb. 1998
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The full papers (at most 8 single space pages) describing relevant,
original and unpublished research or experience works should be emailed
in postscript by January 20, 1998, to either of the following addresses:
asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy
Furthermore, the submission should be accompanied by an electronic copy
of your abstract, in plain ASCII format and including the paper title,
keywords, author names, addresses, and affiliations.
Finally, at least one of the authors of every submitted paper should
fill the online registration forms at http://www.euromednet.ucy.ac.cy
Proceedings will initially be available on the web.
Participation in the formal proceedings (see below) is by invitation
after the conference.
REPUBLICATION OF MATERIAL
Selected papers will be republished in a chapter devoted to
Electronic Commerce in the book entitled "Issues and Applications
of Database Technology" to be published by Idea Group Publishing in
USA in 1998.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saqer Abdel-Rahim, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan
Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA
Hamideh Afsarmaneh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gustavo Alonso, ETHZ, Switzerland
Salah Benabdallah, IRSIT, Tunisia
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Michel Bosco, DG III, European Commission
Juanito Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
Juan Carlos Coll, University of Malaga, Spain
Dov Dori, Technion, Israel
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA
Nabil Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Saverio Massari, NOESIS, Italy
Luis Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Robert Meersman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Erich Neuhold, GMD, Germany
Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete, Greece
Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada
Giacomo Piscitelli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Marwan Tarazi, Birzeit University, Palestine
Andreas Thanassoulias, Hellenic Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Greece
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece
Gerhard Weikum, University of Saarland, Germany
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