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