2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
(ICEBE 2008) http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/
October 22-24, 2008, Xi'an, China - Call for Papers

*** Important Dates ***
April 1, 2008: Abstract registration deadline
May 1, 2008: Paper submission
June 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance
July 25, 2008: Final manuscripts due
October 22, 2008: Conference starts

*** Scope & Topics ***
IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
(ICEBE 2008, http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/)
is an international forum for researchers and practitioners
from different areas of computer science and management science
to exchange information on the engineering design, enabling
technologies, and anecdotal experiences as related to
e-business, to identify the emerging research topics,
as well as to help shape the future of IT-transformed
enterprise, government and commerce. ICEBE 2008 is the
5th conference which is initiated from 2003 by the
IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce. The main themes
of this year's conference are organized in following tracks:

+ Software Engineering for e-Business TRACK
- Design methods,tools and science for e-Business
- Models, Platforms and applications for e-Business
- Components, services and solutions for e-Business
+ Data Management for e-Business TRACK
- Data and knowledge engineering for e-Business
- Workflow and business process tools and management for e-Business
- Stream processing, complex event processing and continuous queries
- Semantic Web
+ Service Engineering TRACK
- SOA business modeling and governance
- SOA enterprise architecture, service bus and federated architecture
- SOA business process management and orchestration
- Grid services
+ Security, Privacy and Open Source TRACK
- Security, privacy and trust methods and solutions for enabling e-Business
- Open source technologies and components for e-Business
- Open source version management
- Authentication in e-Business
+ Mobile and Pervasive Commerce TRACK
- Mobile and pervasive methods, applications and integrated solutions
- Sensor systems and RFID applications
- Ubiquitous information access
- Context awareness and smart environments
- Resource discovery of mobile services
+ Industry Experience and Applications TRACK
- Related to any of the topics above, highlighting large-scale applications,
and persistent and emerging real-world challenges

In addition to paper presentations from the delegates, the program includes
keynote speeches, panel discussions, and workshops. A series of co-located
workshops are under plan. These workshops aim to stimulate discussions
over the issues related to service oriented architecture and e-Business.
Selected best papers will be invited to create extended version and
submit to the Springer Journal on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA).

*** Honorary Chair ***
- Nan-Ning Zheng, President, Xi'an Jiaotong University

*** General Chairs ***
- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Steven Miller, Singapore Management University
- Yong Qi, Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy

*** Program Chair ***
- Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago

*** Organized by ***
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (approval pending)

*** With support of ***
- Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems
- HP Lab China
- Intel Asia-Pacific Research & Development Ltd.
- The University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science
- The Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
- IBM China Research Lab
- IBM China Software Development Lab
- Fudan University, Software School
- Coventry University, Computer Science Department
- Arizona State University, Software Research Laboratory