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Background Scope of the Conference Conference Organization



BACKGROUND

The advent of the Internet as a standard vehicle for communication has led to an acceleration of both the pace and vitality of economic activity. The global information infrastructure serves as the foundation for new modes of personal interaction and business transactions in a collective of activities known as electronic commerce. Electronic commerce represents one of the most promising directions for generating competitive advantage at the microlevel of the organization and for increasing productivity at the macrolevel of the economy. In addition, the wealth of online information and the potential to facilitate diverse business transactions highlights the need for developing software tools to take full advantage of the potential for increasing productivity. This conference will serve as a forum for exploring future directions, business opportunities, government policies, and research avenues in the field of electronic commerce. The symposium is addressed to a diverse audience, ranging from researchers and technologists to policy makers and practitioners including developers, users, educators, system managers, and product vendors. This first annual conference ICEC' 98 will be held in Seoul, while the subsequent ones will be held in U.S.A. in 1999 and the Switzerland in 2000.




Scope of the Conference

The goal of the conference is to bring together participants interested in the development of electronic commerce in all its aspects. The meeting will focus on substantial contributions in the form of original research, innovative concepts, path-breaking software, advanced applications, scholarly analysis, and incisive policy recommendations. The format of the conference includes invited speakers, technical papers, tutorial presentations, panel discussions, workshop sessions, commercial exhibits, and social activities.

Contributions to the conference may involve technological results, functional capabilities, innovative applications, or policy issues. Suggested topics for submissions to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas.


Technological Advances   Functional Capabilities   Policy Issues
Agent based commerce   Cyber financial systems   Corporate technological initiatives
Application integration with the Web   Digitized goods marketing   Goverment initiatives
Authoring environments for HTML files   Direct marketing   International collaborative programs
Browsers and tools   EC strategy formulation   International standards
Consistency and integrity maintenance   Electronic shopping malls   Internet standards
Content languages:   Electronic payment systems   Social impact
   HTML, VRML, Java, NetRexx, KIF, etc.   Integration with CALS  
Charging and payment   Procurement reengineering  
Directory and electronic catalogues    
Integration of heterogeneous data   Innovative Applications  
Knowledge discovery & data mining    
Multilingual access   Business models  
Multimedia technology & virtual reality   Corporate intranets  
Protocols:   Case studies  
   HTTP, IIOP, etc.   Technology transfer issues  
Search Techniques   Validation of systems  
Security and authorization    




Conference Organization

Honorary Conference Chair
Myong Oh, President
Dong a Ilbo, Daily Newspaper
Conference Chair
Jae Kyu Lee, professor
Graduate School of Management
Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology
207-43, Cheongryang, Seoul 130-012, Korea
E-mail: jklee@msd.kaist.ac.kr
Tel.: +82-2-958-3612
Fax: +82-2-960-2102
Conference Co-Chairs
Andrew B. Whinston, professor
MSIS Department cBA 5.202
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX78712-1175, U.S.A.
e-mail : abw@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Beat Schmid, professor
Institute for information Management
University of St. Gallen
Dufourstrasse 50 CH - 9000
St. Gallen, Switzerland
e-mail : Beat.Schmid@iwi.unisg.ch

   International Program Committee
Chair
Steven H. Kim(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Members
Abersek, Boris (University of maribor, Slovenia)
Bodendorf, Freimut (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Buhl, Hans Ulrich (Augsburg University, Germany)
Bui, Tung (Naval Post-Graduate School, U.S.A.)
Cardenosa, Jesus (University Politecnica de madrid, Spain)
Drury, D.H. (McGill University, Canada)
Dutta, Amitava (George Mason University, U.S.A.)
Ertas, Atila (Texas Technology University, U.S.A.)
Fourer, Robert (Northwestern University, U.S.A.)
Gams, Matjaz (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Glover, Fred (University of Colorado, U.S.A.)
Gray, Paul (Claremont Graduate School, U.S.A.)
Hanappi, Gerhard
(University of Technology Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Holsapple, Clyde W. (University of Kentucky, U.S.A.)
Iijima, Junichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Isakowitz, Tomas (New York University, U.S.A.)
Jovanovic, Aleksandar (MPA Stuttgart, Germany)
Kauffman, Robert J. (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Steven H. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Klein, Stefan(Koblenz-Landau University, Germany)
Krishnan, Ramayya(Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
Kusiak, Andrew(University of Iowa, U.S.A.)
Lee, Heeseok(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Lee, Ho Geun(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Lee, Jae Kyu(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Lee, Ronald M.(Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Lee, Young Hae(Hanyang University, Korea)
Leong, G. Keong(Ohio State University, U.S.A.)
Liang, Ting-Peng(Sun-Yat Sun University, Taiwan)
Liebowitz, Jay(George Washington University, U.S.A.)
Milani, Alfredo(University of Perugia, Italy)
Narasimhalu, Desai(National University of Singapore, Singapore)
O'Keefe, Bob(Brunel University, England)
O'Leary, Daniel(University of Southern California, U.S.A.)
Rolland, Erik(Univ. of California, U.S.A.)
Schmid, Beat(St. Gallen University, Switzerland)
Sharda, Ramesh(Okahoma State University, U.S.A.)
Siong, Neo Boon(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Tam, Kar Yan(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Tanik, Murat(New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)
Tung, Lai Lai(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Turban, Efraim(California State University, U.S.A.)
Vogel, Doug(University of Arizona, U.S.A.)
Whinston, Andrew B. (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)
Yu, Chein-Chih(National ChengChi University, Taiwan)
Zwass, Vladimir(Fairleigh Dickinson University, U.S.A.)
   Local Organizing Committee
Chair
Lee, Sang Kee
Hanmoo Development Co. Ltd, Korea
Co-Chairs
Choi, Tae Young
INTERCOM Convention Services, Korea
Lee, Seong-Ha
Computer World, Korea
Lee, Sang Goo
International Center for Electronic Commerce, Korea