Call for Workshop&Tutorials

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The Tenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008) invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held at Innsbruck, Austria, on August 19-22, 2008.

The Workshop Track is a multi-dimensional channel aiming to share a wide variety of industry and educational knowledge and experience. This is a useful channel to report on the latest trends in e-commerce, inform others about cutting-edge technology and the necessary skills to advance within the IS/IT profession. Workshops can be created to discuss the challenges and achievements of new technologies and e-business applications, educating students, innovating and working with the industry, transferring and creating new knowledge between academia and industry, and for other industry and academic related experiences. This channel is used to contribute to our profession's body of knowledge through the sharing of unique and timely findings.

Workshops and tutorials are designed to be interactive sessions wherein participants engage in collaborative learning and other growth activities. These sessions focus on teaching or demonstrating a distinct topic or technique. As audience members expect to be actively engaged during the session, lecture formats are to be avoided for delivering the proposed workshops.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should include:

  1. Title of the workshop or tutorial.
  2. Description of topic(s) and content(s) of the workshop or tutorial.
  3. Aims (theoretical and/or practical) of the workshop or tutorial.
  4. Detailed contact information of the workshop organizer(s) or tutorial presenter(s).
  5. Length (half day or one day) of the proposed workshop or tutorial.
  6. Short description of the audience to which the workshop/tutorial is addressed and estimated number of participants.
  7. Schedule and agenda of the workshop or tutorial.
  8. Resources (other than room) required to be provided by the conference organizer.
  9. Proposals should be related to at least one of the following themes of the conference:
    • Business-to-business e-commerce: adoption of IOS, technologies for interoperable processes, and e-collaboration for global reach; e-business models including P2P e-commerce, web 2.0 applications and impacts, open source software, social intelligence, democratisation of innovation and entrepreneurship
    • Business-to-consumer e-commerce: trends, problem areas, and solutions with emphasis on emerging markets
    • E-government, policy and law: state-of-the-art and future regulation of e-commerce, including public strategies in limiting illicit activities and copyright violations
    • Business/Enterprise Architectures for e-commerce: state-of-the-art and strategies for unifying extended enterprise resource base
    • Mobile and pervasive commerce: alternative interaction metaphors that facilitate context aware, geo-spatially relevant services to users in novel environments
    • Electronic Markets and Multiagent Systems: autonomous, intelligent, decentralised systems, that utilise AI-based and game-theoretic approaches to facilitate both heuristic and theoretically sound decision making
    • Semantic Web ontologies, rules and services: decentralised knowledge-based systems and methodologies that support the exchange of information (including workflows, policies, services and ontological knowledge) in increasingly dynamic and heterogeneous environments

Review Process

To build a quality conference program, all submissions are reviewed and evaluated by a team of your peers. The evaluation process is competitive. The general selection criteria for acceptance of workshop/tutorial proposals include the following:

  1. What is the relevance and significance to our fields?
  2. Is the proposal useful and practical?
  3. Does it represent forward thinking–was it visionary?
  4. Is the presentation appropriate to the category and time frame selected?
  5. Is it focused on the educator and/or the corporate executive?
  6. Is there demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter?
  7. Does the proposal incorporate the conference theme?

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your proposals through the online system available and accessible at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icec08.

If you have any inquiry about developing and proposing a workshop or tutorial, please contact Marianna Sigala (ICEC 2008 Workshop Chair) at m.sigala@aegean.gr or Manfred Hauswirth (ICEC 2008 Tutorial Chair) at manfred.hauswirth@deri.org.

Important Dates for Workshop/Tutorial Submissions

Submission Deadline for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: May 5, 2008
Notification of Acceptance of Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: June 13, 2008
Workshop/Tutorial date: August, 18, 2008

August 19-22, 2008 Innsbruck, Austria