CfP: Special Issue of IS Journal on E-Commerce

[Afrodite Tsalgatidou]

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

             ****** NEW DEADLINE: 1 MARCH 1999 *****

                       INFORMATION SYSTEMS
            http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys

                        SPECIAL ISSUE ON
       INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUPPORT FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

  Guest Editors: Michael P. Papazoglou and Aphrodite Tsalgatidou

                           Fall 1999

Electronic Commerce is the ability to conduct business via electronic
networks such as the Internet and the World Wide Web.  Although
Electronic Commerce is based on the principles of Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) it goes far beyond EDI in that it aims at supporting
the complete external business process, including the information
stage (electronic marketing, networking), the negotiation stage
(electronic markets), the fulfillment (order process, electronic
Payment) and the satisfaction stage (after sales support).

Emphasis these days is on business-to-business E-Commerce
applications: taking orders, scheduling shipments, providing customer
service and so on.  However, present E-Commerce implementations
automate only a small portion of the electronic transaction
process. Moreover, E-Commerce is hampered by closed (self-contained)
markets that cannot use each other's services; incompatible frameworks
that cannot interoperate or build upon each other; and a bewildering
collection of security and payment protocols.  In general, E-Commerce
applications do not yet provide the robust transaction, messaging and
data access services typical of contemporary client/server
applications. While there is considerable interest in developing
robust Internet applications, protection of significant investments in
client/server technology and interoperation with mainframe transaction
servers and legacy systems is a serious requirement.

The purpose of this special issue is to cover enabling technologies,
critical technical approaches and business-centered design
methodologies that address shortcomings of contemporary E-Commerce
applications and that can have a major impact on the evolution of
business-to-business E-Commerce. Emphasis is given to information
systems technologies and in particular how these meet the requirements
of Internet-enabled business (vertical) applications that span
locational as well as organizational boundaries. Topics addressed by
this special issue include:

Architectures for E-Commerce Marketplaces
Middleware and Interoperable Platforms
E-Commerce Security Protocols and Architectures
Transaction Technologies for E-Commerce
Workflow Systems and E-Commerce
E-Commerce Brokering and Matchmaking
Negotiation Protocols and Services
Intelligent Searching Techniques
Contracting and Billing Services
Business Languages for E-Commerce
Multi-Agent Systems and  E-Commerce
Multi-Media Shopping Malls and Kiosk Systems
Integrated/Virtual Enterprises
Inter-Corporate Business  Engineering Methodologies

Important dates:

Submission of papers:

******** 1 March 1999*********

Author notification: 17 April, 1999.
Final papers due: 18 August, 1999.
Scheduled appearance: Fall 1999.

Instructions for authors:

Five copies of original high-quality submissions, following the general
author instructions of Information Systems
ftp://kubin.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/InfSys/styles/latex,
should be sent to one of the guest editors:

Michael P. Papazoglou
Tilburg University
INFOLAB
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
E-mail:  address@hidden
http://infolabwww.kub.nl:2080/infolab/people/mikep

Aphrodite Tsalgatidou
University of Athens
Department  of Informatics
Panepistimiopolis, TYPA Buildings
Ilisia, Athens 157 71,
Greece
E-Mail: address@hidden
http://www.di.uoa.gr/~afrodite/






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