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* The 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology,  *
*           e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05)              *
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*                  Call For Papers                         *
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*             29 March - 1 April, 2005                     *
*                     Hong Kong                            *
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*       Lam Woo International Conference Centre            *
*             Hong Kong Baptist University                 *
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*                           e-mail: eee05@comp.hkbu.edu.hk *
*                  URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05 *
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Sponsored by
- The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce
- Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

Organized by
- Centre for e-Transformation Research (CTR), HKBU


The 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce 
and e-Service (EEE-05) aims to bring together researchers and 
developers from diverse areas of computing, developers and 
practitioners to explore and address the challenging research 
issues on e-technology in order to develop a common research agenda 
and vision for e-commerce and e-business. The focus of this year is 
two-fold: 1) emerging enabling technologies to facilitate next 
generation e-transformation, and 2) their application and deployment 
experience in different e-themes, including e-Business, e-Learning, 
e-Government, e-Finance, etc. The conference solicits research papers 
as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops on related e-topics.


The conference is organized around the following topics (including,
but not limited to):

Emerging E-Technology Track
- Web Services, Grid Services and Service-Oriented Computing
- Ontology, Semantic Web and Ontology
- Web Intelligence, Agents and Personalization
- Pervasive, Mobile and Peer-to-Peer Computing Technologies
- Context-Aware, Location-based and Autonomous Computing
- Security, Privacy, Trust and Reputation for e/m-Services
- Payment Technologies for e/m-Services
- Middleware for e/m-Services

E-Commerce, E-Service and Experience Track
- Business Processes Modeling, Integration and Interoperation
  (EAI and B2B)
- Supply Chain Integration and Management
- Business Intelligence, Customer Behavior Analysis and e-CRM
- Electronic Contracting and Commitment
- Computational Markets and Economy
- Quality Metrics for Web Related Content & Services
- Applications to other e-themes, including e-Finance, e-Healthcare,
  e-Government, e-Learning, etc.

Special issues in "Journal of E-Commerce Research" and "Journal of
E-Commerce Research and Application" will be dedicated to selected
papers from EEE-05.

Best paper awards will be presented to outstanding papers, one
for regular and one student papers.


EEE Challenge 
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EEE-05 features a newly introduced competition named EEE Challenge.
The aim is to provide a benchmarking platform for evaluating the 
state-of-art e-technologies. The focus of the competition for EEE-05 
will be on autonomous service discovery and service composition. 
More details can be found in the conference Web site. 


Important Dates
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Abstract Submission Due:        Sept 28, 2004
Paper Submission Due:           Oct 5, 2004
Author Notification:  	        Nov 18, 2004
Camera-Ready Due:  	        Dec 16, 2004


Advisory Committee
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Chung-Jen Tan       E-Business Tech. Institute, The University
                    of Hong Kong, HK
Heinrich Mayr       Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria 
Janming Ho          Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
Jen-Yao Chung       IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jiming Liu          Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
Keith C.C. Chan     The HK Polytechnic University, HK
Kwei-Jay Lin        University of California, Irvine, USA
Lionel Ni           The HK University of Science and Technology, HK
Soe-Tsyr Yuan       National Chengchi University, Taiwan


Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs:
 Jiming Liu          Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
 Soe-Tsyr Yuan       National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs:
 William K.W. Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
 Jane Hsu            National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Workshop Chair:
 Joseph K.Y. Ng      Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
 Andreas Wombacher   IPSI, Germany
 Alvin Chan          The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Publicity Co-Chairs:
 Pascal van Eck      University of Twente, The Netherlands 
 Patrick C. K. Hung  University of Ontario Institute of Tech., Canada
 Luc Moreau          University of Southampton, UK

EEE Challenge Co-Chairs:
 M. Brian Blake      Georgetown Univ., Washington DC, USA
 Kwok-Ching Tsui     HSBC, HK

Organizing Chair:
 Kelvin C.K. Wong    Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Sponsorship Chair:
 Benjamin Yen        The University of Hong Kong, HK 

Publication Chair:
 Xiaowen Chu         Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Registration and Finance Chair:
 Chun-hung Li        Hong Kong Baptist University, HK 

Steering Chair:
 Kwei-Jay Lin        University of California, Irvine, USA