Software Services for e-World

WOJCIECH CELLARY; ELSA ESTEVEZ

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2010 p. 172

978-3-642-16282-4

Welcome to the anniversary 10th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2010. This year the I3E conference continues the tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce TrEC 1998, Hamburg (Germany). Three years later the inaugural I3E 2001 conference was held in Zurich (Switzerland). Since then I3E has made its journey through the world: 2002 Lisbon (Portugal), 2003 Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2004 Toulouse (France), 2005 Poznan (Poland), 2006 Turku (Finland), 2007 Wuhan (China), 2008 Tokyo (Japan), and 2009 Nancy (France).I3E 2010 takes place in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Known as ?The Pearl? of South America, Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan, colourful and vibrant city surprising its visitors with vast variety of cultural and artistic performances, European architecture, and the passion for tango, coffee places and football discussions. A cultural reference in Latin America, the city hosts 140 museums, 300 theatres and 27 public libraries including the National Library. It is also the main educational centre in Argentina and home of renowned universities including the University of Buenos Aires, created in 1821. Besides location, the timing of I3E 2010 is also significant - it coincides with the 200th anniversary celebration of the first local government in Argentina. I3E 2010 Conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest findings in e-business, e-services, and e-society. The submitted contributions address challenging issues of web services and service oriented architecture, e-transformation of business processes, measuring and assessment of e-services, new e-services for society, social networks, virtual organizations, semantics, trust and security.The 56 papers submitted for consideration for publication originated from 30 countries from all over the world: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Macao SAR, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay and Vietnam. After a thorough reviewing process, 28 papers have been selected for presentation and publication in the proceedings - the acceptance rate was 50%. These proceedings are included in the IFIP AICT series (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) published by Springer and indexed by SCOPUS and ISI Web of Science. This conference has been made possible through the efforts of many people. We wish to thank everyone involved, including those who worked diligently behind the scenes and without formal recognition. First, we would like to thank IPIP Working Group 6.11 for constant support of I3E series of conferences and for selecting Buenos Aires to hold the anniversary 10th I3E 2010 conference. We also wish to express our most sincere thanks to the local organizer of I3E 2010, the Argentinean Society of Informatics (SADIO) and its collaborators whose efforts and enthusiasm made the conference possible. We are most grateful to the key sponsor - National Information Technology Promotion Agency (NIPA), Republic of Korea, and sponsors - International Development Research Centre, Canada (IRDC), and Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), whose contributions greatly facilitated the organization of the conference. We wish to acknowledge the efforts of the whole conference team: General Chair - Ricardo Bruzzi (SADIO), Publication Chair - Jacek Chmielewski (Poznan University of Economics, Poland), and Local Organization Chairs - Jose Carllini (SADIO), Alejandra Villa (SADIO) and Pablo Villareal (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Santa Fe, Argentina). We thank Michal Florczak for new web design and Ignacio Marcovecchio and Rilwan Basanya for technical support. We would like to thank the Program Committee members and reviewers for a very rigorous and outstanding reviewing process. We wish to thank Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia), Anthony Cresswell (University at Albany, USA), Wim Van Grembergen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University, Germany) for graciously accepting our invitations to serve as keynote speakers. We also thank to Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina for providing the venues for the conference. Finally, thank you -attendees- for your participation in I3E 2010, and welcome to Buenos Aires, Argentina. We hope you enjoy the conference and grow professionally and personally. Wojciech Cellary (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Elsa Estevez (UNU-IIST, Macao SAR, China, and National University of the South, Argentina) I3E 2010 Program Co-Chairs.