2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009)
http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/
October 21-23, 2009, Macau, China

*** Important Dates ***
April 1, 2009: Abstract registration
May 1, 2009: Paper Submission
May 15, 2009: Poster and panel proposals due
June 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
July 25, 2009: Final manuscripts due
July 25, 2009: Author registration
September 20, 2009: Early bird registration
October 21, 2009: Conference starts

*** Scope and Topics ***
E-Business is one of most challenging areas for industry and research communities. It is evolving from the disparate B2C, B2B and B2G systems to the integration and collaboration of business services between various information systems and e-marketplaces for integrated services. In this evolving process, integrated e-business systems and their related supporting platforms have to be rapidly formed and designed in order to meet different demands. A number of e-business engineering paradigms, IT concepts and technologies have been developed to tackle these challenges. However, there are still lots of research issues needed to be addressed. These include heterogeneous services integration, disparate e-business functions collaboration, and semantic level e-business messaging.

ICEBE 2009 is the 6th conference which is initiated from 2003 by the IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce. It is a high-quality international forum for researchers and practitioners from different areas of computer science and information systems to exchange their latest findings and experiences, as well as to help shape the future of IT-transformed consumers, enterprises, governments and markets. The conference scope spans the areas of Web, databases, service science, multimedia, information systems and electronic marketplaces. The main themes of this year's conference will be "enabling integrated e-business systems through servicing and collaboration", which is distributed in the following program tracks:

+ Software engineering for e-business
- Design methods, tools and science for e-business
- Models, platforms and applications for e-business
- Components, services and solutions for e-business
- Aspects of green business and green commerce

+ Data and knowledge management for e-business
- Data and knowledge engineering for e-business
- Workflow and business process tools and management for e-business
- Stream processing, complex event processing and continuous queries
- Semantic Web

+ Service engineering
- SOA business modeling and governance
- SOA enterprise architecture, service bus and federated architecture
- SOA business process management and orchestration
- Grid services

+ Integration and collaboration
- E-business functions integration
- Semantic integration for e-business
- Collaborative technology and application for e-business
- Collaborative virtual e-business environment
- Electronic marketplace engineering
- Emerging green marketplace

+ Security, privacy and open sources
- Security, privacy and trust methods and solutions for enabling e-business
- Open source technologies and components for e-business
- Open source version management
- Authentication in e-business

+ Mobile and pervasive commerce
- Mobile and pervasive methods, applications and integrated solutions
- Sensor systems and RFID applications
- Ubiquitous information access
- Context awareness and smart environments
- Resource discovery of mobile services
- 3G technology and services for e-business

+ Industrial experiences and applications
- Related to any of the topics above, highlighting large-scale applications, and persistent and emerging real-world challenges

The conference will take place on 21-23 October, 2009 at University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. In addition to paper presentations from the delegates, the program includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, poster sessions, and several co-located Workshops or Symposiums.

*** Honorary Chairs ***
- Wei Zhao, University of Macau
- C.J. Tan, The University of Hong Kong

*** General Chairs ***
- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Zhiguo Gong, University of Macau
- Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong

*** Program Chairs ***
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete
- Chengzheng Sun, Nangyang Technological University
- Rolf T. Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

*** Organizing Chairs***
- Kai Meng Mok, University of Macau
- Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau

*** Organized by ***
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce

*** Hosted by ***
- University of Macau

*** With support of***
- Arizona State University, Software Research Laboratory
- Coventry University, Computer Science Department
- Fudan University, Software School
- IBM China Research Lab
- Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems
- The Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
- The University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science
- Xi'an Jiaotong University