- 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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A framework for managing optimization models for supply chain software agents
As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many models in such a portal site focused on logistics, automatic formulation and ...
Electronic commerce and the strategic management of deep-sea container shipping companies: an exploratory survey analysis
Despite the increased adoption of electronic commerce (EC) among container shipping companies, the role of EC practice on their strategic management is poorly understood. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the uses, motivations, ...
Business-to-business e-procurement corporate initiative: a descriptive empirical study
An exploratory and empirical study was undertaken to discover the initial e-procurement experiences of firms. Applying the survey method and taking a participant sample from the membership of the Institute for Supply Management and Council for Supply ...
Reducing barriers for e-business in SME's through an open service oriented infrastructure
The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation wishes to establish the necessary services needed in a national service oriented architecture. A key piece of technology in this vision is a hierarchy of addressing services based on ...
A framework for benchmarking e-procurement in the AEC industry
The architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry applies a wait-and-see approach because there are no suitable strategic electronic procurement (e-procurement) solutions for the industry. The benefit of electronic procurement is anecdotal for ...
The influence of the buyer-seller relationship on e-commerce pressures: the case of the primary metal industry
Existing data warrants research into the influence that large buyers have on the e-commerce adoption of smaller sellers. Based on a multiple case study of 12 organizations, the researchers discovered that the different stages of the buyer-seller ...
Inter-enterprise business document exchange
Electronic business document interoperation is the cornerstone of business process integration. An essential issue for business document interoperation is to maintain semantic consistency of the exchanged business documents between any two autonomous ...
A major impediment to B2C success is...the concept 'B2C'
It's been over a decade now. We've forgotten how slow the adoption of consumer Internet commerce has been compared to other Internet growth metrics. And we're surprised when security scares like spyware and phishing result in lurches in consumer ...
An analysis on price matching policy
Price matching policies have been widely adopted in retailing and other industrial markets. The flourishing online channels have made price comparison and matching much easier. Previous research on price matching policy focuses on how this policy ...
Website optimization with web metrics: a case study
Web metrics are the measures that reflect how customers are using a website. Companies use these metrics for further improvement of their website. Although most companies today are engaged in website optimization, the actual use of web metrics is a ...
How does personality affect trust in B2C e-commerce?
Trust is a critical component of successful e-Commerce. Given the impersonality, anonymity, and automation of transactions, online vendor trustworthiness cannot be assessed by means of body language and other environmental cues that consumers typically ...
Distrust and trust in B2C e-commerce: do they differ?
Researchers have not studied e-commerce <u>distrust</u> as much as e-commerce <u>trust</u>. This study examines whether trust and distrust are distinct concepts. If trust and distrust are the same, lack of distrust research matters little. But if they ...
Adaptive decision support system (ADSS) for B2C e-commerce
This paper covers the research problem of supporting users' decision making in E-Commerce systems with complex choices, and design of an Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) which matches the appropriate tool support and decision strategy advice to ...
Emergence of service-added model in B2C for small-sized companies
Independent site administration is not as easy for small-sized companies as it is for large ones in the field of B2C e-commerce from the perspective of limited resources. The most prevalent and effective method of compensating for such limited resources ...
Designing recommender systems for e-commerce: an integration approach
In electronic commerce applications, prospective buyers may be interested in receiving recommendations to assist with their purchasing decisions. Previous research has described two main models for automated recommender systems: collaborative filtering ...
The impact of search engine optimization on online advertising market
Online advertising market is becoming a popular area of academic research. Among other types of advertising, search engine advertising is leading the growth in terms of revenue. In general, there are two types of search engine advertising: paid ...