The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) is a prestigious conference, and a flagship event co-sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly known as TC on Electronic Commerce), and the National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies (NELECT). Since 2003, ICEBE has been provided as a high-quality international forum for researchers, engineers and business specialists to exchange the cutting-edge ideas, findings and experiences of e-business.

New IT breakthrough always brings the evolution of e-business in wide spectrum, e.g. innovative business model, new marketing and sales channel, rapid sense-and-response, etc. How to adapt the changing computing paradigm and adopt new IT technologies for keeping competitive is a great challenge for modern enterprises. Based on the essential complexities in e-business, ICEBE 2014 invites an extensive coverage of system, software, service, business and combinations of the aforementioned etc.

All of the accepted and presented papers in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (pending). The proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will also be submitted to EI and INSPEC for indexing.

We invite submissions of high quality papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work on the following topics:

• Agent for e-Business Track
• Agent-mediated e-commerce systems
• Agent-based artificial markets
• Trading, negotiation, auction and mechanism design
• Collective decision making and coordination for e-Business
• Trust and reputation in online agent systems
• Personal agents and recommender systems
• Agent based web mining, text mining and information retrieval
• Agent or actor oriented analysis in social networks

• Internet of Things (IoT) Track
• Legal perspectives in IoT-based business service
• IoS (Internet of Services) plus IoT
• New business models and value map
• Auto-organization on context, exchange or supply chain

• Cloud Computing Track
• Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Application as a Service
• Extreme scalability, high availability, elasticity, and reliability in a cloud
• Multi-tenancy, security and privacy in clouds
• Programming models and transaction models for the cloud
• Cloud business support services and operational support services

• 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
• Aspects of green business and green commerce

• Data and Knowledge Management for e-Business Track
• Data and knowledge engineering for e-business
• Workflow and business process tools and management for e-business
• Semantic Web, Web 2.0, and business intelligence
• Stream processing, complex event processing and continuous queries
• E-business marketing, data mining, and relationship management
• Machine learning, cybernetics, and agents for e-business services management
• Knowledge management and e-learning

• Service Engineering Track
• Service process modeling
• Service quality assurance
• Service design methodology
• Service optimization
• Service composition
• Service QoS optimization
• Service security
• Service requirement collection, specification, and analysis
• Data- and computation-intensive services
• Business intelligence and analytics for services
• XaaS (X as a service including Iaas, PaaS, SaaS)

• Integration and Collaboration Track
• Collaboration technologies and applications for e-business
• Semantic integration for e-business (e.g. integration of e-business vocabularies, documents and processes)
• E-business functions integration (e.g. integrating functions of e-marketing, e-trade, e-payment and e-logistics)
• Engineering electronic marketplace and supply chain
• Virtual marketplace engineering in virtual world
• Social computing for electronic and virtual marketplaces

• 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 content access
• Context awareness and smart environments
• Resource discovery of mobile services
• 3G technology and services for e-business
• Social networks and social behavior modeling in mobile commerce

• Green Supply Chain, Business and RFID Track
• RFID and automation
• Carbon footprint, accounting and trading
• Energy efficient computing and enabling technologies
• Green business, organization, technology and practices
• Green ecosystems and sustainable development
• Green logistics and supply chain management
• Standards, regulations, and legal issues

• Business Analytics and Optimization Track
• Decision support for e-business
• Real-time analytics for e-business
• Modeling and simulation of e-businesses
• Applications of predictive modeling to e-business
• E-business process optimization

• E-Business Management Engineering Track
• Business Models of E-Business/E-Commerce
• Management Engineering for E-Business/E-commerce
• Related to any of the topics above, application of Management Engineering for E-Business/E-commerce

• Big Data, Super Computing and E-Business Engineering Track
• Big data and super computing
• Big data analytics for e-business
• Super computing and simulation of e-businesses
• Applications of super computing

• Industrial Experiences and Applications Track
• Online Services, E-Business Platform, E-Business/E-Commerce
• Related to any of the topics above, highlighting large-scale applications, and persistent and emerging real-world challenges

The conference is internationally sponsored and supported by many universities and organizations including the following listed.

Honorary Chairs

• Fan Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Jianhuang Lai, Sun Yat-sen University, China

General Chairs

• Zhiyuan Fang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Yuesheng Zhu, Peking University, China

General Vice-Chairs

• Hui Li, Peking University, China
• Zhixiang Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Jian Yin, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
• Ci-Wei Lan, IBM, Taiwan

Program Chairs

• Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China
• Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau, Macau

Program Vice-Chairs

• Anne James, Coventry University, UK
• Howard Chen, China Ecommerce Creditworthiness Center, China

Organizing Chairs

• Xin Dai, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Organizing Vice-Chairs

• Yang Yi, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Chun-Hung Chiu, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Steering Committee

• Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (Chair)
• Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
• Zhiyuan Fang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Jingzhi Guo, University of Macau, Macau
• Francis Lau, The Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
• Yinsheng Li, Fudan University, China
• Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA
• Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
• Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, Software Research Laboratory, USA

Organized by

• IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly known as TC on Electronic Commerce)

Hosted by

• Sun Yat-sen University, China

Sponsored by

• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems
• National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies (NELECT)