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International Workshop on
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AND SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES
FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
http://www.di.uoa.gr/~dexa98/e-commerce.html
in conjunction with the
9th International Conference on Database and
Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98)
Vienna, August 24-28, 1998
*** Submission Deadline: 15 March 1998 ***
Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
THEME
Electronic commerce is a general concept covering any form of business
transaction or information exchange between organisations of various types,
public administration and customers, using information and communications
technology which promises to dramatically alter the structure and processes
of commerce. Business processes supported by electronic commerce can span
organisations' boundaries with each organisation enacting its own parts of
those shared processes. A novel example occurs with the 'virtual enterprise'
where each participant enterprise contributes its own competence to a
closely cooperating network of organisations addressing a particular market
opportunity. Many companies have embarked upon reengineering efforts to
address this issue. However, this is not enough, as in order for the results
of reengineering to be successfully applied, there is a further need for an
infrastructure that can support complex and flexible services to manage
customer-tailored requests in the context of highly dynamic networks and
federations of providers. Building blocks of such an infrastructure should
ensure security and provide mechanisms for searching and advertising,
negotiating and match making, contacting and ordering, billing, payment,
production, distribution, accounting and customer-service mechanisms.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners who are working in technology areas of business process
reengineering and electronic commerce in order to discuss recent research
findings and address complementary research and development issues. Of
particular interest are papers describing reengineering of existing business
processes to address the rapid growth of the internet market and cross the
chasm between organizational stuctures and e-commerce. Papers describing
technologies and systems to support such reengineering efforts are also
solicited.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* business process reengineering in support of electronic commerce
* modeling of virtual enterprises and their business processes
* intellectual property rights for electronic commerce of intangible
goods
* supporting technologies and approaches for electronic commerce
* best business practices in electronic commerce
* coordination models and frameworks for seamless integration of various
components
* workflow technology and electronic commerce
* multimedia and electronic commerce
* interoperability, interconnectivity and electronic commerce
* distributed applications and tools for electronic commerce
* on-line transaction processing (OLTP) based applications and e-commerce
* EDI-based standards for a high quality e-commerce infrastructure
* security and electronic commerce
The papers must clearly show how the technical solutions described
contribute to the area of electronic commerce.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: ................15 March 1998
* Notification of acceptance: .........15 May 1998
* Camera-ready copies: .................5 June 1998
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program
committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
as proceedings of the DEXA'98 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be
formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer
Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The author guidelines
can be found at http://www.di.uoa.gr/~dexa98/ieee-guidelines.html
Electronic Submission
Please submit your paper electronically by e-mail to the address:
dexa98@di.uoa.gr
Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding,
condensing, or encapsulation. Use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not
use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines
for generating and submitting PostScript files are available at
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.
Hard Copy Paper
If you cannot send an electronic copy of your paper, ONLY THEN submit four
hard copies to the address below.
In either case (electronic submission or hard copy) please also send an
e-mail in ASCII format including the paper title, abstract, keywords, author
names, addresses, and affiliations.
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou
Department of Informatics, University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, TYPA Buildings
Ilisia 157 71, Athens, GREECE
Tel: +30-1-7217941 (press 106 after you hear the greek message)
Mobile Phone: +30-93-403248 Fax: +30-1-7219561
E-mail: dexa98@di.uoa.gr
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair:
* Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece
Co-Chairs:
* Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
* Maria Tsakali, INTRACOM S.A., Greece
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* David Barron, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
* George Doukidis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
* Clarence (Skip) Ellis, University of Colorado, USA
* Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, GTE Labs, Waltham, USA
* Jean-Marie Le Goff, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
* Yannis Ioannidis, Univ. of Athens, Greece and Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
* Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom
* Constantin Makropoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
* Richard McClatchey, Univ. of West England, United Kingdom
* Louis Moussy, Electronic Commerce Europe, Vaucresson, France
* George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
* Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany
* Richard Sitruk, ETIS, Brussels, Belgium
* Arne Solvberg, Univeristy of Trondheim, Norway
* Brian Thackray, Aslib, London, United Kingdom
* Benkt Wangler, University of Stockholm, Sweden
* Folkert Wierda, MultiMedia Skills, The Netherlands
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