International Workshop on
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AND SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES
FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
in conjunction with the
9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications
DEXA'98
Vienna, August 24-28, 1998
Co-located with IFIP'98
the 15th IFIP World Computer Congress
Vienna and Budapest, August 31 - September 4, 1998
Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press
THEME
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is a general concept covering any form
of business transaction or information exchange between companies, organizations,
customers and public administration, using information and communications
technology. E-commerce promises to dramatically alter the structure and
processes of commerce. Business processes supported by electronic commerce
can span organisations boundaries with each organisation enacting its own
parts of those shared processes. A novel example occurs with the 'virtual
enterprise' where each participant company contributes its own competence
to a closely cooperating network of companies addressing a particular market
opportunity. Many companies have embarked upon reengineering efforts to
address this issue. However, this is not enough, as in order for the results
of reengineering to be successfully applied, there is a further need for
an infrastructure that can support complex and flexible services to manage
customer-tailored requests in the context of highly dynamic networks and
federation of providers. Building blocks of such an infrastructure should
ensure security and provide mechanisms for searching and advertising, negotiating
and match making, contacting and ordering, billing, payment, production,
distribution, accounting and customer-service mechanisms.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
who are working in key technology areas of e-commerce in order to discuss
recent research findings and address complementary research and development
issues. Of particular interest are papers describing reengineering of existing
business processes to address the rapid growth of the internet market and
cross the chasm between organizational stuctures and e-commerce. Papers
describing technologies and systems to support such reengineering efforts
are also solicited.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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business process reengineering in support of e-commerce
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modeling of virtual enterprises and virtual business processes
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intellectual property rights for e-commerce of intangible goods
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supporting technologies and approaches for e-commerce
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best business practices in e-commerce
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coordination models and frameworks for seamless integration of various
components
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workflow technology and electronic commerce
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multimedia and electronic commerce
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interoperability, interconnectivity and e-commerce
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distributed applications and tools for e-commerce
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on-line transaction processing (OLTP) based applications and e-commerce
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EDI-based standards for a high quality e-commerce infrastructure
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security and e-commerce
Workshop Chair:
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Asuman Dogac, Middle
East University, Ankara, Turkey
Maria Tsakali, INTRACOM
S.A., Athens, Greece
Last updated 24-Aug-98.