2006 IEEE International Concerence on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2006), Oct 21-23 2006, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

E-Business is one of most challenging areas for industry and research communities as it evolves from B2C to enterprise integration and collaboration. In this very dynamic environment, software and its related supporting platforms have to be rapidly formed and designed in order to meet different demands. A number of software 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. So, a series of related conferences organised by the IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce have taken place since 1998. The 2006 IEEE ICEBE is the latest of a successful series.

2005 IEEE ICEBE took place on 18-20 Oct, 2005 in Beijing, China. It attracted more than 420 quality submissions. Based on the received reviews, we accepted 72 full papers for the research track, which amounts to an acceptance rate of 17%. In addition, we accepted 34 short papers, and 11 industry-track papers. The papers represent 18 countries around the world. The selected papers were invited for three special issues: "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal", "International Journal of Electronic Business", "International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transaction". Similar quality of special issues will be arranged for ICEBE 2006.

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2006) is an international forum for researchers and practitioners from different areas of computer science and information systems to exchange information on the enabling technologies and best practices for e-business, to identify the emerging research topics, as well as to help shape the future of IT-transformed enterprise, government and commerce. The conference scope spans the areas of middleware, databases, MIS, Web, and multimedia. The main themes of this year conference will focus on:

• E-Commerce Models, Applications and Technologies

• Service Oriented Computing for E-Business

• Data and Knowledge Management for E-Business

• Mobile and Pervasive Commerce

• Security, Privacy and Open Source Technologies in E-Commerce/Business

• Industrial Track

The conference will take place on 24-26 October, 2006 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. In addition to paper presentations from the delegates, the program includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, poster sessions, and two technical workshops. A demonstration session will be held for the delegates to share their research results. The conference also schedules a job fair to provide a chance for the students and delegates to pursue their careers and for the companies to discover their future employees.

The conference is fully sponsored by IEEE CS and IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce with the support from Fudan University, IBM China Research Lab, IBM China Development Lab, Department of Computer Science Hong Kong University and Singapore Management University.

2006 IEEE ICEBE is a sister event of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on e-Commerce Technology (CEC'06) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'06) (CEC and EEE 2006, http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/), which will be held in San Francisco, USA, June 26-29, 2006.

Honorary Chairs

Benjamin Wah University of Illinois

General Chair IBM Watson Research

Jen-Yao Chung IBM Watson Research

Program Chair

Wei-Tek Tsai Arizona State University

Program Vice Chairs

Boualem Benatallah University of New South Wales

Dalu Zhang Tongji University

Lihua Huang Fudan University

Aad van Moorsel University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Ying Huang IBM T J Watson Lab

Industry Track Chair

Zhong Tian IBM China Software Development Lab

Industrial Sponsorship and Student Workshop Chair

Hong Cai IBM China Research Lab

Publicity Chairs

Shonali Krishnaswamy Monash University

Minglu Li Shanghai Jiaotong University

Publication Chair

Muhammad Younas Oxford Brookes University

International Organizing Chairs

Binyu Zang Fudan Univerisity (Chair)

Yinong Chen Arizona State University

Registration Chairs

Lianjun An IBM Watson Research

Donglai Zhu Fudan University

Web Chairs

Anthony Tam The University of Hong Kong

Xinyu Zhou Arizona State University

Special Issue Chairs

Charles Shoniregun University of East London

Omer Rana Cardiff University

Advisory Board

Guoqing Chen Tsinghua University

Josephine Cheng IBM China Software Development Lab

Jen-Yao Chung IBM T. J. Watson Re-search Center (Chair)

Hamada Ghenniwa University of Western Ontario

Meichun Hsu HP Laboratories China

Francis Lau The University of Hong Kong

Thomas Li IBM China Research Lab

Kwei-Jay Lin University of California, Irvine

Steven Miller Singapore Management University

Erich Neuhold Darmstadt University of Technology

Lionel Ni Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Marcin Paprzycki Warsaw School of Social Psychology

Weiming Shen Canada National Research Council

Program Committee Members

Ajith Abraham Chung-Ang University

Farokh Bastani Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Jean-Paul Barthes Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Nouredine Belkhatir IMAG

Ladjel Bellatreche LISI/ENSMA - Poitiers University France

Elisa Bertino Purdue University

Savitri Bevinakoppa Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Chris Bussler Cisco Systems, Inc.

Malu Castellanos HP Labs

Deren Chen Zhejiang University

Jian Chen Tsinghua University

Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University

Shing-Chi Cheung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

William Cheung Baptist University of Hong Kong

Rem Collier University College Dublin

Vincenzo D'Andrea Universit? degli Studi di Trento

Asuman Dogac Middle East Technical University

Sergiu Dascalu University of Nevada

Marlon Dumas Queensland University of Technology

Schahram Dustdar Tech University of Vienna

Zhiyuan Fang Sun Yat-Sen University

Marie-Christine Fauvet Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble

Yaokai Feng Kyushu University

Shiwa Fu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Stephane Gagnon New Jersey Institute of Technology

Jerry Gao San Jose State University

Claude Godart University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1

Ian Gorton National ICT Australia

Stefan Gossens AREVA NP

Nathan Griffiths University of Warwick

Mohand-said Hacid University of Lyon

Chengfang Hang Peking University

Jackson He Intel

Martin Hepp Digital Enterprise Research Institute

David L. Hicks Aalborg University Esbjerg

Pin-Han Ho University of Waterloo

Joshua Zhexue Huang The University of Hong Kong

Patrick C. K. Hung University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Wayne Huang Ohio University

Marc Idelson Q-Labs(r)

Valerie Issarny The French National Institute for Research

Anne James Coventry University

Raj Jain Washington University in Saint Louis

Stephen Jarvis University of Warwick

Wenyu Jia AMT

Jae Kyu Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Sang-goo Lee Seoul National University

Dapeng Li Shanghai Futures Exchange

Haigang Li Shanghai Jiaotong University

Jiangyu Li Beijing Normal University

Ting-Peng Liang National Sun Yat-sen University

Zong Ling IBM Software Group

Chao-Lin Liu National Chengchi University

Ling Liu Georgia Tech

Michael Luck University of Southampton

Miroslaw Malek Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

Eleni Mangina University College Dublin

Brahim Medjahed University of Michigan

Steven Miller Singapore Management University

Graham Morgan University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Mourad Ouzzani Purdue University

Hye-young Helen Paik The University of New South Wales

Cesare Pautasso ETH Zurich

Wen-Chih Peng National Chiao Tung University

Birgit Proll University of Linz

Marten J. van Sinderen University of Twente

Regis Saint-Paul The University of New South Wales

Karsten Schulz SAP

Michael Sheng CSIRO ICT Center, Australia

Fei Shi Suffolk University

Felix B Tan Auckland University Of Technology

Vladimir Tosic The University of New South Wales

Farouk Toumani ISIMA

Paolo Traverso Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica

Susan Urban Arizona State University

Julien Vayssiere SAP

Hongbing Wang Southeast University

Wei Wang Fudan University

Yunli Wang Canada National Research Council

Raymond Wong University of New South Wales

Jian Yang Macquarie University

Shin-Jer Yang Soochow University

Stephen Yang National Central University

Yufei Yuan McMaster University

Arkady Zaslavsky Monash University

Karine Zeitouni Université de Versailles Saint-Quenti

Liangzhao Zeng IBM

Heming Zhang Tsinghua University

Linxuan Zhang Tsinghua University

Pengzhu Zhang Shanghai Jiaotong University

Yanchun Zhang Victoria University

Yuntao Zhang Shanghai Jiaotong University

Weidong Zhao Fudan University

Aoying Zhou Fudan University

Maoran Zhu Tongji University