In order to provide a better categorization and classification of its main goals, Ec-Web 2009 will be organized as a multi-track conference. Each track will be organized as a mini-conference with corresponding reference area chairs. Even though the main focus of the conference concerns the relationship between E-commerce and emerging technologies, with strong attention toward semantics aspects, contributions about theoretical issues as well as cross-track contributions are very welcome.
- Service Oriented E-Commerce and Business Processes
- Business process modeling and analysis
- Software architectures
- Processes and service composition
- Business process and e-service repositories
- Quality of Service in business processes
- Security in business processes
- Cross-organizational process support, contracts
- Workflow management systems
- Process modeling and enactment in ERP, CRM, and SCM systems
- SOA and Process Management
- Resource management in business process execution
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Inter-organizational Systems
- SOA approaches to E-Commerce
- Virtual enterprises, supply chains, coalitions
- Recommender Systems
- Innovative applications of recommender technology
- Recommendation learning and reasoning
- Industrial application of recommendation technology
- Recommender system user interfaces and conversational approaches
- Explanations in recommender systems
- Group recommender systems
- Consumer decision making and consumer buying behavior models
- Collaborative Filtering
- Appraisal of Recommender Systems
- User Issues in Recommender Systems
- Recommendation Interfaces
- Computational advertising
- Decision theory and preferences
- E-Payment, Security and Trust
- Payment and authentication protocols
- Micropayments
- Access Control
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Information Hiding and Watermarking
- Reputation and trust systems
- Security and privacy issues in electronic commerce
- E-Commerce Dependability
- Transactions and Contracts
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Electronic voting
- Electronic Commerce and Web 3.0
- Ontology engineering for E-Commerce
- Taxonomies and Web directories for semantic E-Commerce
- Semantic-based discovery of resources in a marketplace
- Semantic electronic markets
- Semantic Web Service architecture for E-Commerce
- Semantic E-Procurement
- Ontology-based user profiling
- Application of standard and non-standard reasoning in E-Commerce
- User tagging for item annotation and discovery
- Cloud computing in E-Commerce scenarios
- User interface to exploit Web 3.0 technologies in E-Commerce
- Emerging languages for E-Commerce
- Mobile and Pervasive Commerce
- P2P E-Commerce
- Experience with e-commerce systems
- Usability of e-commerce systems