Final CFP - The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting

=======Call for Papers=======
The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC)

to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce 
(IEEE-CEC'04) 

San Diego, California, USA
6 July, 2004
http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec04/cfpWEC.html


Real world commerce is largely built on a fabric of contracts. Considered 
abstractly, a contract is an agreed framework of rules used by separately 
interested parties to coordinate their plans in order to realize cooperative 
opportunities, while simultaneously limiting their risk from each other's 
misbehavior. Electronic commerce is encouraging the growth of contract-like 
mechanisms whose terms are partially machine understandable and enforceable.

The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC) is the 
forum to discuss innovative ideas at the interface between business, legal, and 
formal notions of contracts. The target audiences will be researchers, 
scientists, software architects, contract lawyers, economists, and industry 
professionals who need to be acquainted with the state of the art technologies 
and the future trends in electronic contracting. The event will take place in 
San Diego, California, USA on July 6 2004. IEEE SIEC 2004 will be held in 
conjunction with The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (IEEE CEC 
2004). Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

- Contract languages and user interfaces 
- Computer aided contract design, construction, and composition 
- Computer aided approaches to contract negotiation 
- Smart Contracts 
- Ricardian Contracts 
- Electronic rights languages 
- Electronic rights management and transfer 
- Contracts and derived rights 
- Relationship of electronic and legal enforcement mechanisms 
- Electronic vs legal concepts of non-repudiation 
- The interface between automatable terms and human judgement 
- Kinds of recourse, including deterrence and rollback 
- Monitoring compliance 
- What is and is not electronically enforceable? 
- Trans-jurisdictional commerce & contracting 
- Shared dynamic ontologies for use in contracts 
- Dynamic authorization 
- Decentralized access control 
- Security and dynamism in Supply Chain Management 
- Extending "Types as Contracts" to mutual suspicion 
- Contracts as trusted intermediaries 
- Anonymous and pseudonymous contracting 
- Privacy vs reputation and recourse 
- Instant settlement and counter-party risk


Submissions and Important Dates:

Full papers must not exceed 20 pages printed using at least 11-point type and 
single spacing. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by 
the IEEE Computer Society. All papers should be in Adobe portable document 
format (PDF) format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 
200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's e-mail address on a 
separate page. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission to 
boualem-YbfuJp6tym4u3/Btm/06mA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx All papers selected for this 
conference are peer-reviewed. The best papers presented in the conference will 
be selected for special issues of a related computer science journal.

* Submissions must be received no later than January 30, 2004. 
* Authors will be notified of their submission's status by March 15, 2004 
* Camera-Ready versions must be received by April 2, 2004 



Organizing Committee and Workshop Officers

General Chair

Ming-Chien Shan, HP labs, USA 
shan-sDzT885Ts8HQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


Program Co-Chairs

Boualem Benatallah, Unversity of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia 
boualem-YbfuJp6tym7X/JP9YwkgDA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Claude Godart, INRIA-LORIA, Nancy, France 
Claude.Godart-/zGXu1G9BXs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Publicity Co-Chairs

Quan Z. Sheng, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and UNSW, 
qsheng-YbfuJp6tym7X/JP9YwkgDA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed university, U.A.E. 
Zakaria.Maamar-g6WCiFtdNsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Program Committee

Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Karim Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech., USA 
Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Asit Dan, IBM, USA
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 
Marlon Dumas, Queesland University of Technology, Australia 
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology
Marie-Christine Fauvet, Grenoble University, France
Ian Grigg, systemics, USA
Patrick C. K. Hung, CSIRO, Australia
Abdessamad Imine, INRIA-LORIA, France
Alan Karp, HP Labs, USA
Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Elms Kim, SAP, Australia
Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria 
Brahim Medjahed, Virginia Tech, USA
L. G. Meredith, Microsoft, USA
Mark Miller, HP Labs, USA
Nirmal Mukhi, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Enrico Nardelli, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Ann H.H. Ngu, Southwest Texas State University, USA 
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Olivier Perrin, INRIA-LORIA, France
Jian Yang, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Hua Wang, USQ, Australia
Farouk Toumani, LIMOS-ISIMA, France
Liangzhao Zeng, IBM, USA 
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia 
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