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I co-chaired the program of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce with Jups Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The event kicked off on the 19th August, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria. The full proceedings are available online at the ACM Portal.
The conference co-chairs were Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Hannes Werthner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
Photo appears, courtesy of Jups Heikkilä, 2008.
Terry co-chaired the Conference Program at ICEC 2008
19/08/2008
The 10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008)
August 19-22, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
The adoption and ubiquity of modern Internet access provides rich and varied opportunities for innovation and improvement of businesses. Over recent years, developments have led to a shift in the way business is conducted, from providing new and innovative service frameworks for B2B, to increasingly sophisticated, Web 2.0 services to improve the B2C user experience. Simultaneously, advances in the use of devices, as well as AI techniques have provided better and more varied access to e-commerce systems as well as facilitating greater autonomy in the way business is conducted. The Internet offers unique opportunities for individuals, businesses and governments to seek new ways of providing novel services, both qualitatively and quantitatively at substantially lower costs. Although many challenges remain, advances in Service Oriented Architectures and Semantic Web have opened up new models and avenues for research and exploitation.
The International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) provides a forum to share invaluable experience of good practices and pitfalls in strategy planning, design, development, engineering and implementation of e-services.