The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005) 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 2005 is a follow-on conference to the highly successful CEC-East 2004 (http://tab.computer.org/tcec/cec04-east/), and a sister event of the IEEE 7^th International Conference on e-Commerce Technology (CEC 2005, http://cec05.in.tum.de/), which will be held in Munich, Germany, July 19-22, 2005.

The technical program of ICEBE 2005 will consist of keynote speeches, paper presentations, and panel discussion. ICEBE 2005 will also include an industry track to foster the interaction between the academics and the industry, and a student workshop for graduate students to receive constructive feedback on their thesis research from their peers and senior faculty members.

The conference theme will be “enabling e-business in emerging markets”. The conference scope spans the areas of middleware, databases, management information systems, Web, and multimedia. Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Service-oriented computing
• Grid computing
• Peer-to-peer computing
• Utility computing
• Web services

• Sensor systems and RFID applications
• Location-based services and telematics
• Ubiquitous information access
• Context awareness and smart environments
• Resource discovery of mobile services

• Information integration and mediation
• Transaction and workflow management
• Stream processing and continuous queries
• Real-time delivery of multimedia content
• Mining data, text and Web

• Business process modeling, integration and monitoring
• Ecosystems and virtual enterprise
• Risk prediction and value analysis
• Enterprise resource planning and supply chain
• Linkage between business and IT

Paper Submissions

Both research and industrial papers are solicited. Research papers must be unpublished and not exceed 10 single-spaced pages. Industrial papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced pages and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards. For easy identification, all industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the conference Web site at http://www.cs.hku.hk/icebe2005/. Authors are encouraged to register the paper abstract earlier to facilitate our planning for the paper reviews, and must submit their papers by April 26, 2005. PDF format is preferred but PostScript format is acceptable.

Research papers and industrial papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference. Selected papers of the conference will also be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Electronic Business. Awards will be given for the best research paper and the best student paper.

We also solicit submissions to the Graduate Student Workshop. Workshop information and submission guidelines can be found at the conference Web site.

Important Dates for Authors

For further information please send e-mail to: icebe2005@cs.hku.hk