Zayed University's College of information Technology
is hosting a track on "e-Business Applications"
at the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil - March 16 - 20, 2008
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008
SAC 2008
For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by the University of Fortaleza and the Federal University of Ceará, in Brazil.
Overview
e-Business applications have introduced new opportunities for small and large organizations to compete in the global marketplace. The increasing popularity and advances in e-Business are enabling the development of new classes of applications and new trends in the design of online information systems.
This track focuses on emerging technologies, architectures, approaches and methodologies for building and managing advanced e-Business systems. The Internet and the related technologies have created an interconnected world in which electronic information can be approaches to transmit and transform information for competitive advantage. The goal of this track is to bring together researchers from academia and industries who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of e-Business applications. It will present an opportunity for researchers to get together and share recent developments and techniques in order to identify the critical problems and the most promising research avenues.
Topics
This track addresses the challenging e-Business applications issues focusing on exploring novel methods, techniques and trends to build and manage online information systems to conduct e-Business applications. We solicit original research and industrial papers in the area of e-Business applications with a special interest in the following topics:
- e-Procurement methods
- e-Business systems integration and standardization
- Service-oriented e-Business
- Electronic negotiation systems and protocols
- Trust, security, and privacy in e-Business
- Intelligence in e-Business
- Databases and e-Business applications
- Barriers to e-Business
- Development of e-Business applications
- e-Business in developing countries
- e-Logistics
- Organizational and management issues
- Technical issues for e-Business and solutions
- e-Business models and architectures
- Applications of new technologies to e-Business
- Middleware technologies to support e-Business
- e-Business design models and methods
- e-Business development processes, standards and methodologies
- e-Business social and legal issues
- e-Business service architectures
- e-Business competition and collaborations
- e-Business case studies and applications
Submission Guidelines
A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.
Authors are invited to submit original papers in any of the areas listed above. Submissions must be original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or journals. All papers should be submitted online at http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx Authors should pay particular attention to the following guidelines:
All accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings and will be available at the conference. Note that accepted papers must fit within five (5) two-column pages, with the option to add three (3) more pages at an additional expense.
Important Due Dates
Sept. 8, 2007: Paper submissions
Oct. 16, 2007: Author notification
Oct. 30, 2007: Camera-Ready Copy
Track Chairs
Dr. Fahim Akhter (Point of Contact)
College of Information Technology
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
fahim.akhter@zu.ac.ae
www.zu.ac.ae/profile/fahim_akhter.asph
Dr. Lami Kaya
Computer Science Department
University of Sharjah, U.A.E
United Arab Emirates
LKaya@sharjah.ac.ae
Dr. Ibrahim Kamel
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Sharjah, U.A.E
kamel@sharjah.ac.ae
www.sharjah.ac.ae/academic/engineering/staff/fac_cvs/i_kamel/i_kamel.htm
Program Committee
Chirine Ghedira, Lyon 1 University, France
Christelle Vangenot, EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland
Damiano Distante, University of Sannio. Italy
Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA
Kamel Rouibah Kuwait University, Kuwait
Fahim Akhter, Zayed University, U.A.E
Faiez Gargouri, University of Sfax, Tunisia
George Feuerlicht, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Gilles Falquet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
James Palmer, Northern Arizona University
Jorge Gardoso, EST-Setubal, Portugal
Lami Kaya University of Sharjah, U.A.E
Michael Cebulla Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Nasser Nassiri, Dubai Women’s College. U.A.E
Tariq Bhatti, Zayed Univerity, U.A.E
Ustun Yildiz, Inria, France
Yu Huang, Peking University, China.
Aabhas Paliwal, Rutgers University
Reza Barkhi, American University of Sharjah