CFP: Peer-2-Peer E-commerce Systems and Applications

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   CALL FOR PAPERS: Peer-2-Peer Ecommerce Systems and Applications
                 in the Software Technology Track
                   at the Thirty-seventh Annual
          HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
                    on the Big Island of Hawaii
                        January 5 - 8, 2004

                Additional detail on the web sites:
                  http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/hicss37/
                    http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

The purpose of this minitrack is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to discuss software technology issues related to the emerging
peer-to-peer paradigm. We envisage an interdisciplinary forum bringing together
participants with technology background and practitioners from both the industry
and the open source community to discuss and evaluate the technology aspect as
well as the interplay between technological capabilities and new emerging forms
of commercial electronic interaction. Examples of such systems include electronic
marketplaces, information exchange, collaborative systems, P2P protocols and
architectures, etc.
P2P computing provides a new paradigm of distributed computing requiring new
approaches and patterns. In this context, several technologies appear to converge
among which Peer-to-Peer frameworks, Mobile Agents, Digital Rights Management /
Digital Policy Management, trust computing, cognitive or knowledge agents and
ontologies. This convergence provides new opportunities to design novel IT
architectures to support new organizational forms and flexible ways of conducting
and reengineering businesses.

Contributions of interest will be those that describe novel business interaction
and user coordination models, the supporting information systems and new types of
systems and applications supporting the peer-to-peer paradigm. Topics related to
the paradigm of peer-to-peer Ecommerce include, but are not limited to, the
following:

       - P2P system architectures and protocols
       - security and payment mechanisms
       - mobile agents
       - semantic transformation and discovery
       - rights languages for electronic goods and services
       - digital rights management and policy management (DRM/DPM)
       - trust and reputation management
       - community platforms
       - self organizing information systems
       - auction, negotiation and bidding mechanisms
       - multi-agent systems
       - electronic marketplaces
       - support for virtual enterprises
       - real time management information systems
       - digital asset management and trading


Coordinators:

Karl Aberer
EPF Lausanne, Dept. of Communication Systems, Switzerland
E-mail: karl.aberer@epfl.ch

Jean-Henry Morin
University of Geneva - CUI, Switzerland
E-mail: Jean-Henry.Morin@cui.unige.ch

Aris Ouksel
The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
E-mail: aris@uic.edu


IMPORTANT DEADLINES

March 31, 2003     Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of
                   appropriate content.
June 1, 2003       Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs.
                   Contact minitrack chairs for submission instructions.
August 31, 2003    Notice of accepted papers sent to Authors.
October 1, 2003    Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the
                   publisher. Author(s) must be registered for the
                   conference by this date.


The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena, Italy
Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Tech, USA
Oliver Gunther, Humboldt University, Germany
Ouri Wolfson, Univ. Illinois Chicago, USA
Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy
Tawfik Jelassi, ENPC, France
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
Heiko Ludwig, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Rachid Guerrraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Bruno Codenotti, CNR, Italy
Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneva - CUI, Switzerland
Guy Genilloud,  Financial Systems Architects, Switzerland
Yves Pigneur, University of Lausanne - INFORGE, Switzerland
Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva - CUI, Switzerland
Vassilis Prevelakis, Drexel University, USA
Yair Babad, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Tomas Sander, HP Labs, USA
Esmail Salehi-Sangari, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Bill Yeager, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION:

1. Submit electronically your full paper by June 1, 2003. Full papers
should have an abstract and be 20 - 25 typewritten, double-spaced pages
in length including diagrams.
(NOTE: The final paper will be 10 pages, double-column, single spaced.
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
Authors will be required to follow the general author instructions of
IEEE Computer Society Press: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm )

2. Do NOT submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack. Papers
should contain original material and not be previously published, or
currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper,
full name of all authors, and complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).

4. The first page of the manuscript should include only the title and a
300-word abstract of the paper.

Submission Address: Morin@cui.unige.ch
Authors are requested to submit the full manuscript electronically in
PDF, Postscript, Word or RTF format by June 1, 2003 to morin@cui.unige.ch.


THE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRACK AT HICSS-37
    Chair: Gul Agha;
    Email: agha@cs.uiuc.edu;
    WWW  : http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS37/fsfcfp.htm

For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at:
    http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer,
and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and
practice.   Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or
descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a peer referee process and
those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference
Proceedings.  Submissions must not have been previously published.


CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair
Email: sprague@hawaii.edu

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email: hicss@hawaii.edu

Eileen Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis@indiana.edu


2004 HICSS-37 CONFERENCE VENUE:

Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii)
425 Waikoloa Beach Drive
Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738
Tel: 1-808-886-1234
Fax: 1-808-886-2900
http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com/

NOTE:  December 1 is the deadline to guarantee hotel room reservation at
       conference rate.