CFP Workshop on e-services at ICEC03

Call for Papers 
Workshop on Modeling E-services at the 5th International Conference on 
Electronic Commerce (ICEC03), Pittsburgh, PA, September 30, October 1-3, 2003

An important topic in e-commerce is to understand the exploration, design and 
assessment of innovative e-commerce services. Clearly, work has been done on 
the more technical e-service aspects (e.g. UDDI, WSDL, WSFL, SOAP) but a sound 
theory on the social-economic and commercial aspects of e-services is still 
lacking. The proposed workshop aims at sketching the inter-disciplinary 
research field of e-services and identifying research issues for the coming 
years.
In particular, the workshop aims at a better understanding of value chain 
configuration in dynamic network organizations, which contain commercial 
entities, which create, distribute, and consume e-services. Such services can 
be rather elementary but can also be complex compositions, e.g. service parts 
offered by different actors, electronic contracting, trust or security services 
etc. Various types of modeling can be considered such as conceptual modeling, 
(semi-)formal or graphical modeling (e.g. UML). Topics in this workshop include 
(but are not limited to):
* Ontological foundations for e-services
* How to model and describe e-services?
* e-Service examples and case studies
* Selection, contracting and delivery of e-services
* Service composition and  formation
* e-Services and relations to web-service technology
* e-Services and inter-organizational business process design
* Application-level communication languages for e-services
* Text and data mining of e-services transaction records

Workshop format
The workshop will take one day. Workshop participation will be based upon 
submitted papers, which will be reviewed by an international program committee. 
The best papers will be presented. All papers will be distributed to the 
participants before the workshop starts. Each presented paper will be assigned 
a commenter, who will present a
brief counterpoint to the presented paper. During the day, participants can 
propose issues to be discussed at the end of the day. The workshop should lead 
to a list of issues discussed, conclusions reached, disagreements identified, 
and topics to be researched.

Submission
Papers should be written in English. Authors are invited to submit papers 
online in Word, PDF or postscript using the publishing guidelines at 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html to Jaap Gordijn 
(gordijn-FV+mU1CFjts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). Submissions should not exceed 5000 
words, including an abstract of up to 150 words and a list of references. 
Papers will be published by Carnegie Mellon University as workshop proceedings.


Best papers will be considered for publication in a good international journal 
such as for example the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology 
(IJWET) or another journal.

Location
The workshop will be hosted by CMU at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh.

Organizers/Chairs
The workshop will be organized by J. Gordijn, Y.-H. Tan, J.M. Akkermans (all 
Free University Amsterdam), and. S. Kimbrough (Wharton School, University of 
Pennsylvania)

Program Committee
Frank Dignum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gerd Wagner, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Alexander Osterwalder, HEC Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland
Maarten Steen, Telematics Research Institute, The Netherlands
Patrick Sweet, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Roel Wieringa, Technical University Twente, The Netherlands
Ronald M. Lee, Florida International University

Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: May 31, 2003 
- Author Notification: July 15, 2003 
- Camera-Ready Papers due: August 1, 2003 
- Workshop Dates: Likely September 30, but possibly during the conference Oct. 
1-3.
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