Workshop Scope and Areas of Interest

New advances in and applications of Information and Communication Technologies continue to rapidly transform how business is done around the world. An expanding array of Intranet and Internet-based applications is being developed and deployed, spanning across virtually all business functional areas. These e-business technologies and applications are also enabling new business models, creating new industry sectors, and redefining relations and processes within and across organizations.

The purpose of this workshop series is to provide an open forum for e-business researchers and practitioners to share research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions of e-business.

The theme of this year's workshop is on "Real-World Impact of e-Business Research." The thematic emphases for the past workshops (2002 to 2005) were mobile commerce, Web services, dynamic and service-oriented e-business, and Web-enabled business values, respectively. For this year, we feel strongly that the time is ripe for the e-business research community to reflect to what extent their research has been impacting business practice, to discuss jointly with practitioners where the key e-business research challenges lie, to encourage research projects that have clear and strong relevance to e-business practice, and to prioritize collectively future research directions. Research submissions along these lines are strongly encouraged.

We welcome research papers that examine technological, operational, economic, behavioral, managerial, organizational, and societal aspects of e-business frameworks, solutions and services. Papers may employ any applicable IS research methodology (cast study, survey, analytical, experimental, computational, design science, etc.).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• E-business system architectures and standards (e.g., Web services, semantic Web, service-oriented architecture, agent-based e-business platform, on-demand services)

• E-business platform modeling and comparative evaluation

• Mobile commerce

• Trust management and interface issues

• Collaborative e-business systems and applications

• Security informatics, privacy and compliance issues

• E-business system and process integration and management

• E-business strategy and implementation (e.g., product co-development across organizational boundaries, service-oriented e-business)

• Global technology outsourcing and systems development for e-business

• Applications in specific business functional areas (e.g., supply chain management, marketing, customer relationship management)

• Enterprise Web portals, Web mining, Web analytics and intelligence

• Web-based knowledge and process management

• Social computing and its e-business applications (e.g., recommender systems, collaborative bookmarking and tagging, social shopping)

• E-marketplace design and evaluation (e.g., B2B, B2C, and C2C auctions; sponsored search auctions)

• E-business in the public sector (e.g., healthcare, e-government)

• E-business adoptions, organizational impact, and e-transformation

• Emerging research opportunities in e-business

A printable copy of the WEB 2006 Call for Papers can be downloaded here.