The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) is a prestigious conference sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly TC on Electronic Commerce). It provides a high-quality international forum for researchers, engineers and business specialists to exchange their latest findings and experiences related to the design and implementation of e-business. ICEBE 2012 will take place in Hangzhou, China, September 9-11, 2012.

New IT breakthroughs have been driving the evolution and transformation of e-business in many aspects; for example, novel business models, new marketing and sales channels, and rapid sense-and-respond operations, just to mention a few. How to adapt to the changing computing landscape and exploit IT technologies for competitive advantages is a major challenge for modern enterprises. Addressing the challenge requires innovations in areas spanning systems, software, services, and business.

Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. All the accepted and presented papers in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Digital Library, which is EI and INSPEC indexed. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Data and Knowledge Management for e-Business Track
Data and knowledge engineering for e-business
Workflow and business process tools and management for e-business
Semantic Web, Web 2.0, and business intelligence
Stream processing, complex event processing and continuous queries
e-business marketing, data mining, and relationship management
Machine learning, cybernetics, and agents for e-business services management
Knowledge management and e-learning

Software Engineering for e-Business Track
Design methods, tools and science for e-business
Models, platforms and applications for e-business
Components, services and solutions for e-business

Service Engineering Track
SOA business modeling and governance
SOA enterprise architecture, service bus and federated architecture
SOA business process management and orchestration
Grid services

Integration and Collaboration Track
Collaboration technologies and applications for e-business
Semantic integration for e-business (e.g. integration of e-business vocabularies, documents and processes)
E-business functions integration (e.g. integrating functions of e-marketing, e-trade, e-payment and e-logistics)
Engineering electronic marketplace and supply chain
Virtual marketplace engineering in virtual world
Social computing for electronic and virtual marketplaces

Industrial Experiences and Applications Track
First-of-a-kind pilot studies
Large-scale deployments
Emerging real-world challenges

Green Technologies for Business Track
Carbon footprint, accounting and trading
Energy efficient computing and enabling technologies
Green business, organization, technology and practices
Green ecosystems and sustainable development
Green logistics and supply chain management
Standards, regulations, and legal issues

Cloud Computing Track
Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Application as a Service
Extreme scalability, high availability, elasticity, and reliability in a cloud
Multi-tenancy, security and privacy in clouds
Programming models and transaction models for the cloud
Cloud business support services and operational support services

Mobile Commerce Track
Mobile methods, applications and integrated solutions
Ubiquitous content access
Context awareness and smart environments
Resource discovery of mobile services
3G technology and services for e-business
Social networks and social behavior modeling in mobile commerce

Security, Privacy and Open Source Track
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

Business Analytics and Optimization Track
Decision support for e-business
Real-time analytics for e-business
Modeling and simulation of e-businesses
Applications of predictive modeling to e-business
E-business process optimization

Internet of Things (IoT) Track
Legal perspectives in IoT-based business service
IoS (Internet of Services) plus IoT
New business models and value map
Auto-organization on context, exchange or supply chain
Sensor systems and RFID applications

The conference is internationally sponsored and supported by many universities and organizations including the following listed.

General Co-Chairs

Deren Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Chunxiao Liang, Alibaba Group Research Center, China
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

General Vice Chair

Xiaolin Zheng, Zhejiang University, China


Program Co-Chairs

Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Hui Lei, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China

Program Vice Chair

Shuren Zhang, Alibaba Business College, China


Organizing Chairs

Jianlin Zhang, Alibaba Business College, China
Zuo Zhang, Alibaba Business College, China
Ci-Wei Lan, IBM Research Collaboratory, Taiwan

Organizing Vice Chair

Jiyi Wu, Alibaba Business College, China


Organized by

IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly TC on Electronic Commerce)


Hosted by

Zhejiang University


Sponsored by

IEEE Computer Society (approval pending)
Alibaba Group Research Center, China