Academics: Call for Papers

High-quality papers (previously unpublished or submitted elsewhere) are welcome. Research papers, which need not be limited to the above special themes, can be conceptual, theoretical, empirical, experimental, or case studies and will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two experts of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in full in the CD proceedings of the conference. Prizes will be awarded for the best papers. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the international journal of electronic business.

Papers may be submitted online.

Call for Papers (Acrobat PDF format)

Practitioners: Call for Abstracts

Abstracts (500 words maximum) for practitioners may be sent via email to headm@mcmaster.ca.

Panel Organizers: Call for Panel Proposals

Proposals should be 2 to 3 pages in length and should include:

• The overall theme and objectives of the panel
• The format of the panel
  • Audience participation, debates, etc.
• Brief bios of each panelist and their proposed contribution to the panel topic/discussion

Important Dates

Topics for submission

B2B Commerce track

Track Chair: Gerald Trites, St. Francis Xavier

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Electronic marketplaces, supply chain optimization and logistics management, multi-agent negotiations, inventory management, e-auctions, e-bidding systems, innovative partnerships

B2C Commerce track

Track Chair: Maureen Hupfer, DeGroote School of Business

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Customer relationship management, pricing, online purchasing, recommender systems, reputation systems, payment systems, trust and reputation, self-service customer portals, personalization strategies, internet advertising, online information search, brand-based virtual communities, consumer use of intelligent agents or decision support systems, online auctions, consumers’ website design preferences

e-Business Development track

Track co-chairs: Dan MacDonald, InNOVAcorp and Wayde Crawford, SMUBDC

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: e-Business models, industry models, industry benchmarking, innovative funding mechanisms, privatization of economic development initiatives, e-venture capital, partnerships, e-business readiness

eGovernment track

Track chair: Brian Detlor, DeGroote School of Business

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Citizen portals, change management & e-government, project management & e-government, governance issues in e-government, mobile e-government, e-government applications, knowledge management & e-government, e-government infrastructure, mobile e-government.

eHealth track

Track Chair: Norm Archer, DeGroote School of Business

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Electronic healthcare records, standardization, best practices and case-studies, stakeholder adoption issues, eHealth strategies, security, confidentiality and privacy, trust, self-care, adherence/compliance, home healthcare, health- related Internet portals, electronic healthcare networks, electronic platforms for research and applications, system interoperability, mobile systems and applications, decision support, remote patient monitoring, emerging technologies

eLearning track

Track chair: Keith Bain, Liberated Learning, SMU

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Usability of learning systems, accessibility, distance learning, collaborative learning, speech recognition technology applications, video processing applications

IT governance and information assurance track

Track Chairs: David Bateman, Sobey School of Business

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Information audits, common criteria and audit frameworks, third party seals, regulatory compliance, IT governance, benchmarking

mBusiness track

Track Chair: Yufei Yuan, DeGroote School of Business

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Mobile commerce business models, mobile commerce applications, security and privacy issues in mobile commerce, location-based services, context-related usability studies

Privacy and security track

Track co-chairs: Peter Bodorik, Dalhousie University and Winston Morton, Thor Solutions

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Identity theft, identity management, privacy policy management, security management, Web services security, wireless security management, third party-managed services, privacy personalization, voice security management

Web business intelligence track

Track chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary’s University

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: Web information retrieval, real-time analysis, data mining, knowledge management, risk management, revenue management, reporting, semantic search

eWorkplace track

Track co-chairs: Elizabeth McLeod, Sobey School of Business and Shelley Hessian, SMUBDC

Topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following: SME models, service-on-demand, enterprise resource planning application management, workflow management, human capital management, self-service employee portals, collaborative tools, managing the adoption of emerging technologies, workplace communications, IT project management