Welcome to the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce

Call for Papers: IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2004), July 6-9, 2004. CEC 2004 will be collocated with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004) in San Diego, California, USA. 

INTRODUCTION TO THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Information systems and their application play a major role in today’s business. Besides the introduction of new technologies to streamline processes within companies, Electronic Commerce over the Internet has become a major trend. Though only a few years old, it has the potential to radically alter economic activities. Electronic payment technologies, electronic procurement and electronic markets are only a few of the challenges that future businesses will have to meet. The current success of Electronic Commerce is based on the fundamental work done in earlier years in various disciplines. EDI, WWW, cryptography, databases and distributed object standards form a mix of technologies and standards for the development of Electronic Commerce applications. This means that Electronic Commerce does not describe a single new technology, but it is a patchwork of tools and techniques combining contributions of various disciplines. Together they should enable the fair exchange of goods and services over the Internet. 

While computer and engineering sciences have laid the foundation for Electronic Commerce, Electronic Commerce technologies are no longer simple efficiency tools that automate various types of transactions. By equipping economic agents with tools to search, negotiate and transact on-line and real time, various applications of Electronic Commerce technologies promise an unprecedented opportunity to rethink fundamental assumptions about markets and economic efficacy through electronic markets and open a whole range of new research questions. 

The IEEE Computer Society has been sensitive to these new developments of computer science. Since 1998, we have successfully organized the Workshop on Dependable and Real-Time E-Commerce Systems (DARE'98) and the International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS) in 1999, 2000 and 2001. The conference proceedings have been published by IEEE Computer Society.  Thus the need is felt for a forum where all scientists, engineers, practitioners, and the like, working in this area can express themselves with publications in conferences and with exchanges of ideas of any kind. It is felt that the IEEE Computer Society is the ideal organization to support this kind of activity, as it has already done so. 

The Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (TCEC) will act as an international  forum to promote E-Commerce research and education, and  participate in setting up technical standards in this area. Issues  related to the design, analysis and implementation of E-Commerce systems and solutions are of interest. These include design and analysis of distributed architectures and enabling technologies (e.g. Autonomic computing, Grid, Web Services, etc.) and application  development on E-Commerce system. 

The Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (TCEC) plans to sponsor professional meetings, publish newsletters and other documents, set guidelines for educational programs, as  well as help co-ordinate academic, funding agency, and industry activities in the above areas. The TCEC organizes annual conferences. In addition, TCEC publishes a quarterly newsletter to help IEEE/Computer Society members keep abreast of the events occurring within this field. The International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS'2002) was sponsored by the TCEC. 

Co-Chairs: 

Jen-Yao Chung
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P. O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
USA
Phone: +1 914 945 3422 
Fax: +1 914 945 3242
Email: jychung@us.ibm.com


Kwei-Jay Lin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2625
USA
Phone: +1 949 824 7839
Fax: +1 949 824 2321 
Email: klin@uci.edu