The Seventh International Workshop on e-Business (WEB 2008) ? Pre-ICIS Workshop Sponsored by AIS SIGeBIZ

Theme: Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks

Date: December 13, 2008, Paris, France
Workshop Website: www.web-2008.org

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Information and Communication Technologies continue to rapidly transform how business is done. e-business technologies and applications are also enabling new business models and redefining relations and processes within and across organizations.

The purpose of this workshop series is to provide an open forum for e-business researchers and practitioners to share research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions of e-business.

The theme of this year's workshop is ?Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks?. The thematic emphases for the past workshops (2002 to 2007) were mobile commerce, Web services, dynamic and service-oriented e-business, Web-enabled business values, the real-world impact of e-Business research, and customer-centric information systems respectively. With this year?s workshop being located in Europe, we feel that the increasing importance of the design science approach, which has a long tradition in the European IS research, should be reflected in the workshop theme. We thus hope to stimulate discussions on how to overcome the barriers to the full acceptance of this approach and how it should and can be advanced. Research submissions along these lines are strongly encouraged.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics welcome at the workshop include, but are not limited to:
E-Business Standards Development
Economic Modeling of Telecommunication Markets and Services
Economics of E-Commerce
Grid Economics
IS in eEnergy
Market and Service Engineering
Mobile Technologies
Multiagent System, Semantic Web, and Context-aware Computing
Multiagent-based Business Process and Supply-Chain Management
Organizational Implications of Electronic Markets
Prediction Markets
RFID and Supply Chain Management
Security Informatics
Social Computing Applications
Social Networks
Web Intelligence
Web Services and Architectures

IMPORTANT DATES
Full Papers Submission 01 September
Notification of Acceptance 15 October
Final Camera-ready Copy 01 November
Workshop 13 December

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University
Michael J. Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Christof Weinhardt, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH)
Stefan Luckner, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH)

WEBSITE AND FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information refer to the WeB2008 website at www.web-2008.org

Or email the program co-chairs: web2008@iism.uni-karlsruhe.de