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Call for Papers
ICE-B is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

The International Conference on e-Business, ICE-B 2012, aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in e-Business technology and its current applications. The mentioned technology relates not only to more low-level technological issues, such as technology platforms and web services, but also to some higher-level issues, such as context awareness and enterprise models, and also the peculiarities of different possible applications of such technology. These are all areas of theoretical and practical importance within the broad scope of e-Business, whose growing importance can be seen from the increasing interest of the IT research community.

The areas of the current conference are: (i) e-Business applications; (ii) Enterprise engineering; (iii) Mobility; (iv) Business collaboration and e-Services; (v) Technology platforms, and we look forward to receiving submissions (both research-driven and of a more practical nature) that reflect innovative results in the mentioned areas.

Authors are encouraged to submit their work on technology-driven enterprise solutions (with a stress on the telecommunication technology), which can either represent a more engineering-related contribution or be more business application-oriented. Papers describing new (software development) methods or technological IT solutions, as well as papers introducing tools or presenting advanced prototypes and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged - papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas and sub-areas listed below.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The best papers will be selected to appear in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

Special sessions, case studies and tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics related to the main conference are also envisaged: researchers interested in organizing a special session or holding a tutorial, or companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies, are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. APPLICATIONS
2. ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING
3. MOBILITY
4. COLLABORATION AND E-SERVICES
5. TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS
6. SUSTAINABLE E-BUSINESS


AREA 1: APPLICATIONS

  • Banking/Finance
  • Education/Learning
  • Entertainment
  • Government
  • Health Care/Well-being
  • Industrial
  • Urban/Regional Planning/Development
AREA 2: ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • B2C/B2B Considerations
  • Business Performance
  • Business Process Management
  • Business-IT Alignment
  • Business Models
  • Enterprise Ontologies
AREA 3: MOBILITY

  • Context-Awareness
  • Ubiquity
  • Information Quality
  • m-Business Models
  • Mobile Architectures
  • Mobile User Interfaces
  • Quality-of-Service
  • Trust/Security/Protection
AREA 4: COLLABORATION AND E-SERVICES

  • Collaborative Systems
  • Integration/Interoperability
  • Pragmatic Web
  • Semantic Web
  • Social Networks
  • Usability
  • Web Services
AREA 5: TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

  • Cloud Technology
  • Grid Computing
  • Middleware Platforms
  • Services Computing Platforms
  • Transaction Support
AREA 6: SUSTAINABLE E-BUSINESS

  • Business Policy, Strategy and Governance
  • Goal Setting and Value Setting
  • Model Driven Development
  • Green Computing for e-Commerce
  • Internationalization and Social, Ethical and Cultural Factors
Keynote Speakers
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, United States
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in the Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS).
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in the Journal of Networks (JNW).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 24 - 27 July, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: March 5, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 24, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 7, 2012
Secretariat

ICE-B Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5432
e-mail: ice-b.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.ice-b.icete.org

Venue

The Meliá Roma Aurelia Antica is a magnificent modern building surrounded by 10 hectares of Mediterranean forest in a quiet area near the airport Fiumicino and just a few kilometers away from Vatican City.
Rome is one of Europe's leading business travel destinations and one of the most attractive destinations in the world for congresses, meetings and incentives.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

David Marca, University of Phoenix, United States
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

Program Committee

Anteneh Ayanso, Brock University, Canada
Ladjel Belllatreche, ENSMA, France
Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada
Indranil Bose, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Rebecca Bulander, Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Germany
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, China
Soon Chun, City University of New York, United States
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Rafael Corchuelo, University of Sevilla, Spain
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Yanqing Duan, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Erwin Fielt, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
José María García, University of Sevilla, Spain
Ela Hunt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, United States
Anton Lavrin, The Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic
Yung-Ming Li, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Liping Liu, University of Akron, United States
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan
Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University, United States
Adrian Mocan, SAP AG, Germany
Ali Reza Montazemi, Mcmaster University, Canada
Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, United States
Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Pak-Lok Poon, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Philippos Pouyioutas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Bijan Raahemi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Sofia Reino, CICTourGUNE, Spain
Erik Rolland, University of California at Riverside, United States
Gustavo Rossi, University of La Plata, Argentina
Jarogniew Rykowski, The Poznan University of Economics (PUE), Poland
Zhaohao Sun, University of Ballarat, Australia
Thompson Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Laurentiu Vasiliu, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

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