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Electronic Commerce is one of the most important challenges in business development and one of the driving forces behind the fast development of the Internet. The dawn of next generation mobile networks and the substantial investments in the respective licenses generate an immense demand for new solutions and applications while opening a completely new domain of research. Portable information appliances will accompany us everywhere and they will be important front-ends to electronic commerce applications.

E-commerce is expected to reshape the way business is conducted and the technical infrastructure has to be adapted to the requirements posed by electronic commerce scenarios. In the networked economy information-driven architectures set out for providing the high flexibility necessary to construct customized electronic services, reconfigurable inter-company relationships, and Internet-wide scalability. If mobility is really such an important field, all research in EC must ask how it is influenced by the mobility aspect. The interrelationship between discussions about processes in electronic commerce and aspects of mobile commerce must be emphasized.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to discuss the development of technical concepts, products, and infrastructures for electronic commerce. Main topics are the architectures of electronic commerce applications and mobility in electronic commerce.

This workshop will provide a forum to meet and discuss the technical and technology related issues of e-commerce. Suggested topics for research and position papers include, but are not limited to:

• Processes in Electronic Commerce and Integration of Mobile Devices
• Definition, Creation, Lookup, and Composition of Electronic Services
• Security in Processes
• Semantics of Electronic Services: Metadata and Ontologies
• Deployment, Monitoring, and Administration of Service-oriented Applications
• Distributed Processes and Virtual Enterprises
• Nomadic Employers, Employees, and Customers
• Architectures of Service-, Information-Flow- and Customer-oriented Systems
• Management of Information-Flows
• Operating Systems -> Middleware -> "Application-Ware"
• Notifications, Event-based Systems
• Impact of Mobility on Application Architecture
• Location-Awareness
• Mobility and Electronic Services
• Mobility and Agents
• Mobility and Security
• Middleware and the Integration of Mobile Devices
• Business Models of Mobile Commerce
• Electronic Marketplaces and Mobility: Access, Trading Forms, and Business Models
• Intangible Goods: Description, Pricing, and Distribution
• Dynamic Price Building, Negotiation, Contracting
• Electronic Payment Systems
• Privacy, Freedom of Information and Other Social and Ethical Issues
• Case studies on Mobile Commerce Applications, their Architecture, and Technology
• Case studies on Virtual Enterprises, inter-Company Processes, and their Technology

IMPORTANT DATES

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

• Research and industrial papers. Submitted papers should describe original, unpublished research or experience and be no longer than 12 pages.
• Posters and/or Demos. These can be used to publicize current research initiatives. A one-page summary of the contents of the demo or the poster should be submitted.

All papers must be written in English and will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by Springer Verlag (LNCS series). Selected poster/demo summaries will be considered for the inclusion in the proceedings. Papers must be submitted in Postscript or PDF formats. They should be formatted according to the LNCS format: one column, single space, 10 point Roman/Times font.  Please consult the authors' instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details about the final version. Please ensure that the first page of your submission includes the title, an abstract and the address, telephone, and email of the primary contact person.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or postcript (no hardcopy) and sent to welcom-submission@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de.

For further details, contact WELCOM organizer at welcom@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs

Ludger Fiege
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 166705
Fax: +49 6151 166707
fiege@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de

Gero Mühl
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
gmuehl@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de

Uwe Wilhelm
T-Nova, Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 83-19722
Fax: +49 6151 83-19758
U.Wilhelm@telekom.de

Sponsors

GI EMISA
Deutsche Telekom

Program Committee

• Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Jan Boluminski, Client Vela, Germany
• Alejandro Buchmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Clemens Cap, U. Rostock, Germany
• Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA
• Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany
• Oliver Günther, HU Berlin, Germany
• Stefan Jablonski, U. Erlangen, Germany
• Ravi Jain, Telcordia, USA
• Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Günter Karjoth, IBM, Switzerland
• Ramayya Krishnan, CMU, USA
• Josef Küng, U. Linz, Austria
• Winfried Lamersdorf, U. Hamburg, Germany
• Cliff Leung, IBM, USA
• Günther Müller, U. Freiburg, Germany
• Stefan Noll, FhG-IGD, Germany
• Andreas Oberweis, U. Frankfurt, Germany
• M. Tamer Özsu, U. Waterloo, Canada
• Sachar Paulus, SAP, Germany
• Joachim Posegga, SAP, Germany
• Krithi Ramamritham, U. of Massachusetts, USA
• Mike Reiter, Bell-Labs, USA
• André Schiper, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• Hartmut Vogler, SAP Labs, USA
• Gottfried Vossen, U. Münster, Germany

For further details, contact WELCOM organizer at welcom@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de