IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT Workshop on ECBS 2008 is the international workshop on advances in theory, systems, and applications for electronic commerce. The workshop is in conjunction with IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2008 (IAT 2008). The increase of Electronic Commerce and Business research activities can be observed in a variety of the fields. Though there have been several workshops on Electronic Commerce, Business and Services based on intelligent agents, there is little interaction so far among researchers. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring together world-wide researchers with an interest in Electronic Commerce and Business. Unlike conventional conferences, this workshop will mainly discuss and explore scientific and practical problems as raised by the participants. The focus of the workshop will be on computer science, game theory, auction theory, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, WWW, semantic web, etc. In particular, the workshop will bring together researchers from Computer Science and Economics.

The workshop is interdisciplinary in nature, and will address the following topics with intelligent agent and multi-agent technology:

E-Commerce architecture

E-Catalog

E-Business and Services

E-procurement and auctions

Mechanism design

Game theoretic analyses in e-commerce

Intelligent e-commerce system & agents

P2P & its application on e-commerce

Scheduling protocols in e-commerce

Service Science

Security & trust issues in e-commerce

WWW and e-commerce

Web services in e-commerce

Semantic Web and e-commerce

Efficient mechanisms for trading

Coordination Mechanisms

Robust Negotiation Mechanisms

Computational mechanism design

Economic and game theoretic design and analysis

Two-sided matching, multi-sided matching

These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Electronic Commerce. This workshop will bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

We require on-line submission through IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT Conference Paper Management System. The workshop is soliciting full papers (4 pages) on all aspects of electronic commerce, business and services. Submitted papers will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance to electronic commerce, and its relation to prior research. All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation at the conference. Each paper needs to be reviewed by at least three PC members or experts in the field.

Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without review.

Formatting Guidelines

We encourage submission in IEEE 8.5x11 inch style of format. The length of papers is recommended to be 4 pages long excluding bibliography.

All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address.

All papers must be submitted in PDF format.

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be indexed by EI.

Please register the workshop via IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT 2008 web page.

to be announced.

General Chairs

• Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
• Minjie Zhang, Wollongong University, Australia.

Program Chairs

• Quan Bai, Wollongong University, Australia.
• Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan.

• Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Vivian Ding, IBM Research, China
• Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, England
• Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
• Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan
• Miniar Hemaissia, THALES Research & Technology France, France
• Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Werner Kiessling, Institute of Computer Science, Germany
• Hyun Soo Kim, Dong-A University, Korea
• Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
• Wei Li, Central Queensland University, Australia
• Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada
• Valentin Robu, National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, the Netherlands
• Mehmet Sayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
• Junho Shim, Sookmyung University, Korea
• Pedro Soto-Acosta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
• Chun-Hua Tian, IBM Research, China
• Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Zili Zhang, Deakin University, Australia