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11th International Conference on
Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
EC-Web 2010

http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ecweb2010/

University of Deusto
Bilbao, Spain
30 August - 3 September 2010

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EC-Web 2010

After the initial enthusiastic initiatives and investments and the
eventual bubble, Electronic Commerce has changed and evolved in a
well established and founded reality both from a technological point
of view and from a scientific one. Nevertheless, together with its
evolution, new challenges and topics have emerged as well as new
questions have raised related to many aspects of Electronic Commerce.

After the lesson learned during last years and following the successful
edition of EC-Web 2009, for its 11th edition EC-Web will try to provide
a clearer description of the Electronic Commerce universe focusing on
some relevant topics. The main focus is not only on Internet related
techniques and approaches. The aim of EC-Web 2010 is to cover also
aspects related to theoretical foundations of E-Commerce, Business
Processes as well as new approaches exploiting recently emerged
technologies and scenarios such as Semantic Web, Web services, SOA
architectures, mobile and ubiquitous computing, just to cite a few.
Due to their central role in any realistic e-commerce infrastructure
security and privacy issues are widely considered, without excluding
legal and regulatory aspects.

We encourage papers that present innovative solutions for classical
E-Commerce issues, such as e-negotiation, recommender systems,
secure payments, as well as for new emerging areas, such as
Computational and Search Advertising, Semantic Web, agent-based E-Commerce,
applied Web Services, applied soft computing, information retrieval and
information filtering techniques in web and/or e-commerce environments.

Although the conference seems naturally focused on computer science issues,
we welcome and encourage research contributions from economics, business
administration, law, sociology and other disciplines. In particular, papers
about web marketing and its non-technical aspects, as well as about social
aspects of e-commerce are encouraged. We also welcome papers reporting about
innovative applications and case studies in the field of E-Commerce and/or Web
Applications, like, e.g., Electronic Voting and Sponsored web search.

In order to provide a better categorization and classification of its main goals,
Ec-Web 2010 will be organized as a multi-track conference.
Each track will be organized as a mini-conference with corresponding reference area
chairs. Even though the main focus of the conference concerns the relationship
between E-commerce and emerging technologies, with strong attention toward
semantics aspects, contributions about theoretical issues as well as cross-track
contributions are very welcome.

The topics of interest of the thematic tracks include, but are not limited to:


TRACKS

* Agent-based Electronic Commerce
o Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
o Auctions, Bargaining and Contracting
o Automated Negotiation and Argumentation-based Negotiation
o Preference Modelling
o Interaction Protocols and Mechanism Design
o Strategic and Tactical Behaviour
o Market-Oriented Programming
o Electronic Voting and Coalition Formation
o Trust, Security and Legal Issues
o E-Commerce Systems, Integrated Supply Chains, Virtual Organizations and Commercial Applications
o Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages

* Service Oriented E-Commerce and Business Processes
o Business process modeling and analysis
o SOA for business processes
o Service-enabled workflow management systems
o Cloud-assisted services for e-commerce
o Virtual enterprises, supply chains, coalitions
o Lightweight service and process composition
o Process management as a service
o (Inter-)Enterprise mashups for e-commerce
o Cross-organizational process support, contracts
o Compliance governance in distributed processes
o Quality of Service in distributed business processes
o Security and trust in distributed business processes
o SOA- and cloud-based business models
o Mobile e-commerce services and platforms
o Online market places and e-service repositories

* Recommender Systems
o Recommendation algorithms
o Context-aware recommender systems
o Recommender systems and social networks
o Semantic Web technologies for recommender systems
o Evaluation of recommender systems
o User Issues in Recommender Systems
o Serendipity in Recommender Systems
o Decision theory and preferences
o Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
o Explanations in recommender systems
o Group recommender systems
o Industrial application of recommendation technology
o Consumer decision making and consumer buying behavior models
o Computational advertising
o Security and privacy
o Trust in recommender systems

* E-Payment, Security and Trust
o Security in Mobile and Ubiquitous E-Commerce Applications
o Infrastructure for Secure Economic Transactions
o Payment and authentication protocols
o Micropayments
o Access Control
o Privacy-enhancing technologies
o Information Hiding and Watermarking
o Reputation and trust systems
o Security and privacy issues in electronic commerce
o E-Commerce Dependability
o Transactions and Contracts
o Legal and Regulatory Issues
o Electronic voting


CONFERENCE CHAIRS

* Francesco Buccafurri - Universit? Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
* Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"


TRACK CHAIRS

Service Oriented E-Commerce and Business Process
* Florian Daniel - University of Trento

Recommender Systems
* Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
* Pasquale Lops - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"

E-Payment, Security and Trust
* Barbara Masucci - University of Salerno

Agent-based Electronic Commerce
* Fernando Lopes - National Research Institute (INETI), Lisbon
* Helder Coelho - University of Lisbon


WEBMASTERS

Leo Iaquinta - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Cataldo Musto - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Fedelucio Narducci - University of Bari "Aldo Moro"


IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission of abstracts: March 16, 2010
- Submission of full papers: March 19, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2010
- Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2010


SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English,
following the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).
Duplicate submissions are not allowed and will be rejected.
Papers should not exceed 12 pages (i.e. 12 LNCS formatted pages).
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
All accepted papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS)
by Springer Verlag.
At least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper.
For paper registration, electronic submission and further information
please see http://sisinflab.poliba.it/ecweb2010/ and http://www.dexa.org.