- Conference Chairs:
- Mark S. Fox,
- Bruce Spencer
Welcome to the International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2006.Why is this the right time and place for an e-commerce conference?The advances in information and communication technology have removed physical barriers to advertising, information sharing, negotiation and payment, making it possible to know what is available, to find out everything you could need to know about a purchase including the price, the warranty, any special offers, and history of reliability, and to arrange delivery and payment plans. But many challenges remain: overcoming difference in language and culture, protecting privacy and security of information, establishing trust in your business partner, searching for products based on their properties, delivering information services, controlling autonomous shopping agents, delivering e-commerce to wireless and mobile customers, and a host of other B2B and B2C issues.The International Center for Electronic Commerce was set up to address these challenges and to help realize the potential of e-commerce. The researchers and other delegates attending this conference share in this endeavour; each of us shares the realization that the rest of humanity can benefit greatly if we can remove these barriers. E-commerce has and will create efficiencies in the interchange of goods and services, potentially benefiting everyone who is directly or indirectly involved.As individuals it is only through exchanging what we have in excess and using our unique skills that everyone's lives become richer and more comfortable. E-commerce potentially accelerates that exchange. The e-commerce community develops and delivers the tools and techniques for performing the exchanges and managing this global market.We researchers and practitioners of e-commerce have a vital role in making this potential a reality. To do this we need to share knowledge, through forums like the ICEC conference series.And remember, our task is a vital one. As you go to the presentations, sessions and in your conversations, remember our role. There are challenges aplenty as we apply information and communication technology to make the worldwide marketplace more available to people in their everyday lives. A challenge is both an obstacle and an opportunity. Overcome the challenge and you can exploit the opportunity.So this is the right time for the International Conference on Electronic Commerce. This is also a right place: Canada, New Brunswick and Fredericton have very active communities doing e-commerce research and development. Welcome to the Smart City of Fredericton, enjoy our beautiful surroundings, the St. John River, the University of New Brunswick Campus.This year's conference is marked by two innovations: a large number of keynote addresses and a Business Day. We have attracted some of the most brilliant minds in international e-commerce research. Seven of the invited speakers were chosen by the track chairs, who are experts in their respective fields. With eight such speakers, the conference is excellent value for the modest registration fee. The Business Day, Tuesday, is devoted to creating better communication between the researchers and practitioners of e-commerce, with an invited talk, panel discussions with more invited experts, and breakout sessions.This year's conference received 112 papers and accepted 53 long papers (47% acceptance rate) and 15 short papers.
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Research on IT outsourcing based on IT systems management
To adapt to changing market conditions and intense competition more quickly than ever before, enterprises can not help equipping more and more new IT applications continuously. But new challenges emerged. Most of enterprises lack for IT technique and ...
Barriers and solutions to the development of online advertising in China
This paper aims to investigate the barriers and solutions to the development of online advertising in China so as to help online advertisers and companies to enhance the effect of their advertisements. Through the analysis of the latest 16th CNNIC ...
IOS standards in the insurance branch network: impact on market dynamics in the Netherlands
In the history of Dutch insurance, there has always been structural reliance on networks for economic reasons. How this networked environment, with its associated IOS standards, helps Dutch insurance firms create global advantage is the topic of this ...
A review of electronic signatures regulations: do they facilitate or impede international electronic commerce?
This paper intends to critically review the regulations on electronic signatures (e-signatures) around the world and examine their possible impact on the development of international electronic commerce (e-commerce). Do they facilitate the e-commerce ...
E-commerce today and tomorrow: a truly generalized and active framework for the definition of electronic commerce
E-commerce can be viewed from different perspectives by different people. Existing e-commerce frameworks consist of rigid and specific fundamental components of e-commerce. E-commerce field is constantly facing new challenges and new situations. To deal ...
Web based information for product ranking in e-business: a fuzzy approach
In this paper we have introduced a methodology to rank the available products in the Internet market. These rankings are based on the customers' own preferences and also on the information in the different search engines about the products. ...
Proof of concept of an RFID-enabled supply chain in a B2B e-commerce environment
Based on a field study conducted in the utility industry, this paper examines the impacts and potential benefits generated by an RFID application in one specific supply chain. Through a detailed investigation of the underlying business processes, we ...
Building learner's ontologies to assist personalized search of learning objects
The present work is devoted to building learning object's and learner's ontologies using the OntoClean methodology and IDEF5 method, and mapping the ontologies to OWL. The proposed methodology for building learning object's and learner's ontologies ...
Recommendation algorithm combining the user-based classified regression and the item-based filtering
With the expansion of the Internet services, providing personalized product recommendations has become one of the most important ways to attract customers. Especially, collaborative recommender systems have achieved widespread success on the web. ...
Optimal supply chain formation using agent negotiation in a SET model-based make-to-order
In an effort to composite an optimal supply chain, this study has introduced an agent-based negotiation model as a method for assigning a lot of orders to a large number of participants. As a resources allocation mechanism to form strategic cooperation ...
Evolution of portals and stability of information ecology on the web
With the advent of the community-based search, the role of the search portal is evolving. Formerly a gateway, the portal is now becoming a destination. A community-based search delivers content from the knowledge community inside the portal that binds ...
Entrepreneurship in mobile application development
The growth of mobile commerce will require development of both demand and supply sides of the market. On the supply side, the development of mobile applications (e.g. games, calendars, search engines) via cellular technologies will occur in a context ...
A context-aware mobile service discovery and selection mechanism using artificial neural networks
In this paper we present SmartCon, a context-aware system for the discovery and selection of mobile services using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The solution we have developed is a mobile agent-enabled system that adaptively and iteratively learns ...
Economics of online music and consumer behavior
In this paper we first provide a literature review about the economics of online music. Second, we then present an economical model for online music by incorporating various parameters such as the price of a legal download, as well as parameters taking ...
Electronic signatures: a brief review of the literature
The advent of the Internet saw technological innovations such as electronic signatures, in particular digital signatures, as an electronic equivalent to manuscript signatures in the online environment. However, the use of this technology is still ...