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the Eighth IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society
(I3E 2008)
September 24 - 26, 2008
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, JAPAN
http://www.i3e2008.org/

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!!! Closing date for Early Registration: !!!
!!! Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, 17:00 Japan Time (GMT+9 hours) !!!
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The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society will
be held from September 24-26, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Being sponsored
by IFIP WG 6.11 in cooperation with TC 11 and TC 8, it will provide
a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry,
and government to present their latest findings in e-Business,
e-Services, and e-Society applications and in the underlying
technology to support these applications.

)From submitted papers, thirty papers, including twenty-six for the
research track and four for the industrial and administration track,
were accepted for presentation at I3E 2008 and publication by
Springer Science & Business Media within IFIP series. The accepted
papers cover various aspect of sustainable society on ubiquitous
networks, including user behavior models, security and trust, P2P,
SOA, Web autonomy, legal and ethical issues, societal and cultural
issues, and practices on government systems.

[Keynote speeches]
- "Future Outlook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Services"
by Dr. Takeshi Mizuike, the Vice President and Chief Executive
Director at KDDI R&D Laboratories
- "How salesforce.com Changes Information Technology"
by Mr. Adam Gross, Vice President of Platform and Developer
Marketing at salesforce.com
- "SOUNDS FROM UTOPIA: Critical Issues of the Web 2.0 Perspective in
the Network Society"
by Prof. Dr. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk at University of Twente

[Panel sessions]
- "How P2P technology drives e-Society"
Chair: Dr. Tadao Saito, Prof. Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
Panelist: Mr. Y. Taniwaki (Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications of Japan), Mr. H. Tan (Skype Technologies),
Mr. M. Volpi (Joost), Prof. T. Asami (the University of Tokyo)
- "RFID can create Ubiquitous Network Society?"
Chair: Prof. Shiro Sakata (Chiba University)
Panelist: Prof. N. Koshizuka (the University of Tokyo),
Mr. H. Tagato (NEC), Mr. N. Hayashi (Sony), Mr. D. Kimball
(United States Department of Defense)

VENUE

The conference venue is the National Center of Sciences in central
Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities of high technology,
commerce, culture, and fashion. The Center is in front of the
Emperor's Palace and within 30 minutes of almost all of the
highlights of Tokyo, including Akihabara electric town, Tsukiji fish
market, the Shogun's garden, and the National Museum.

REGISTRATION

Registration to I3E 2008 is possible through the conference Web site:
http://www.i3e2008.org/registration.html.
Registration before August 7th will be discounted.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

For further information, please visit our Web site at
http://www.i3e2008.org/ or e-mail info@i3e2008.org.

COMMITTEES

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo,
Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Japan
General Chair:
Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
PC Chair:
Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan
PC Vice Chair:
Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Local Steering Committee Chair:
Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan
Local Steering Committee co-Chair:
Terutoshi Sano, The Association for Promotion of
Public Local Information, Japan
Local Steering Committee Vice Chair:
Ken Kobayashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Finance Chair:
Hiroshi Yajima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Finance co-Chair:
Shigehisa Honma, The Association for Promotion of
Public Local Information, Japan
Local Arrangements Chair:
Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Local Arrangements Vice Chair:
Soichi Furuya, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Publication Chair:
Chizuko Yasunobu, Hitachi Consulting, Japan
Publication Vice Chairs:
Katsunari Yoshioka, Yokohama National University, Japan
Nakazato Junji, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan
Publicity Chair:
Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Panel Chair:
Shiro Sakata, Chiba University, Japan
Orgnized Session Chair:
Osamu Sudoh, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Members:
Toyoyuki Kobayashi, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan
Hirokazu Konishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan
Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Local Steering Committee Secretary:
Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

Liaison Chairs
IFIP:
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Europe:
Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany
North America:
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
South America:
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Asia-Pacific:
Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Steering Committee
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I3E2008 will be held in cooperation with Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications of Japan and it is partly supported by National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
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