The Thirteenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce - ICEC 2011
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2-5th August 2011, Liverpool, UK

http://www.icec11.org/

Over recent years, developments in the ubiquitous access to the internet (through mobile consumer devices, digital signage and an explosion of services) has led to a continued evolution in the way business is conducted. Advances in social networks have allowed more sophisticated mechanisms for connecting consumers and goods, whilst increases in wireless technologies have yielded benefits for the supply chain in general. The Internet offers unique opportunities for individuals, businesses and governments to seek new ways of providing novel services at substantially lower costs.

The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) annually brings together the leaders of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. Having travelled across the globe from Austria to Taiwan and Hawaii, the conference returns to Europe, to the historical trading and shipping city of Liverpool, England. As with previous years, the conference will feature:

•invited keynote presentations
•panels on topical issues on technology, business and public policy
•refereed paper presentations on emerging and continuing research issues
•workshops in several thematic tracks

The theme of ICEC'11 is “Mobile and Pervasive Commerce”. The revolution in mobile devices, from smart phones that allow constant access to the network through evolving 3/4G networks, to tablets and eBook readers has changed the way people consume and exploit data. The notion of pricey, low volume software has been replaced with high volume, low priced, instant access apps that can be bought through an online App-store. Location-awareness and portability has driven a new demand for context-sensitive apps, and the explosion of entertainment and content delivery services has facilitated new models of commerce. This conference aims to facilitate the dialogues among experts in academic and industries to exchange insights in related issues, and hopefully boost up research momentum across disciplines to contribute to mobile and pervasive commerce for the e-commerce community.

Important Dates
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•Submissions due: 12th April 2011, 23:59 (11:59pm) Hawaii time
•Notification: 20th May 2011
•Camera-ready: 2nd July 2011
•Conference: 2nd - 5th August 2011

Tracks and Topics of Interest
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The conference will be organized into several tracks, which focus on the latest developments and innovations in e-commerce in the following areas of interest:

1. Mobile Commerce: on-the-move payment systems and alternative interaction metaphors that facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to users in novel environments;
2. Pervasive Commerce Business Models: systems, principles and policies for supporting pervasive, often mobile trading;
3. Automated Trading: the use of Auctions, Game Theory and Mechanism Design to support electronic markets;
4. Agents and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent, decentralized systems, that support distributed trading systems;
5. Energy Trading: the role of e-commerce within Green Information Technology and Social Responsibility;
6. Recommender Systems, Social Networks / Ethics and Trust: mechanisms that utilise both Web-2.0 and trading data to advise and support consumer choice;
7. Advertising, Search Engine Optimisation, Keyword Auctions and Marketing: improving the link to the consumer;

Other topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Business Intelligence from Web data
• Business-to-business e-commerce
• Business-to-consumer e-commerce
• Economics of the Internet and information goods
• E-government, policy and law
• Intellectual property and digital rights management
• Mobile and pervasive commerce
• Multiagent systems and electronic markets
• Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
• Prediction/information markets
• Privacy, security and trust
• Reputation and recommendation systems
• Search and information retrieval for e-commerce
• Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services
• Social networks and viral marketing
• Sponsored Web search

Submission of Abstracts and Papers
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Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality research papers describing the latest research and developments in the above-mentioned fields. Submissions encompassing other areas are welcome, but authors are advised to contact program chairs to discuss relevance before submission. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library, and the best papers will appear within a high-quality Journal special issue, such as Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Journal.

Papers should not have been submitted for review, accepted for publication, or already published elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.

All research paper submissions must be in English, and should be no longer than 10 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review. Papers must be submitted in PDF, according to the ACM Proceedings Format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Papers can be submitted via the conference submission site at: http://icec2011.confmaster.net/



Organising Committee
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General Chairs:
Terry R. Payne (University of Liverpool)
Chris Westland (University of IIllinois at Chicago)

Program Co-Chairs:
Wolfgang Ketter (Erasmus University)
Karl Reiner Lang (City University of New York)
Kyoung Jun Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

Local Organisation Chair:
Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool)

Workshop Chair:
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA - CSIC, Barcelona)

International Program Committee
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Marc Adam (KIT, Germany)
Ravi Bapna (University of Minnesota, USA)
Balázs Benyó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Martin Bichler (TU Munich, Germany)
Jesse Bockstedt (George Manson University, USA)
Indranil Bose (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sylvain Bureau (ESCP Europe, France)
Federico Casalegno (MIT, USA)
Michael Chau (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hsu-Chen Cheng (Chinese Culture University, Taiwan)
John Collins (University of Minnesota, USA)
Sanjukta Das Smith (University of Buffalo, USA)
Gilbert Fridgen (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
Alok Gupta (University of Minnesota, USA)
Kunsoo Han (McGill, Canada)
Mark Hoogendoorn (Free University of Amsterdam, NL)
Fu-Shiung Hsieh (Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan)
San-Yih Hwang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Junichi Iijima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Wolfgang Jank (University of Maryland, USA)
Catholijn M. Jonker (TU Deflt, NL)
Patrick Jordan (Yahoo Labs, USA)
Uzay Kaymak (Erasmus University, NL)
Christopher Kiekintveld (UT at El Paso, USA)
Jae Kyeong Kim (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
Taemie Kim (MIT, USA)
Sohyeong Kim (UC Berkeley, USA)
Jan Krämer (KIT, Germany)
Helmut Krcmar (TU Munich, Germany)
Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Yen-Hsien Lee (National Chia-Yi University, Taiwan)
Jun Li (HP, USA)
Ting Li (Erasmus University, NL)
Yung-Ming Li (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
De Liu (University of Kentucky, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Zhe Lou (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium)
Ori Marom (Erasmus University, NL)
Peter McBurney (King's College London, UK)
Florian Michahelles (ETH Zurich, Swiss)
Abhay Mishra (Georgia State Univerisy, USA)
Joerg Mueller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)
Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Jan Ondrus (ESSEC, France)
Gautam Pant (University of Utah, USA)
Ray Patterson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Jinsoo Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Jong Han Park (KAIST, South Korea)
Selwyn Piramuthu (University of Florida, USA)
Vedran Podobnik (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Vandana Ramachandran (University of Utah, USA)
Felix von Reischach (ETH & SAP, Germany)
Yuqing Ren (University of Minnesota, USA)
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK)
Erik Rolland (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Ramesh Sankarnarayanan (University of Connecticut, USA)
Pallab Sanyal (George Mason University, USA)
Shan-Ling Pan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Kyung-shik Shin (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, UK)
Anjana Susarla (University of Washington, USA)
Andreas Symeonidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Arvind Tripathi (University of Auckland, NZ)
Jan van Dalen (Erasmus U, NL)
Clemens van Dinther (KIT, Germany)
Yun Wan (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)
Jyun-Cheng Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Christof Weinhardt (KIT, Germany)
Mathijs de Weerdt (TU Delft, NL)
Chin-Sheng Yang (Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan)
Benjamin Yen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dmitry Zhdanov (University of Connecticut, USA)
Markus Zanker (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Liyi Zhang (Wuhan University, China)
Michael Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)