1st International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
EC-Web 2000

September 4-6, 2000
London-Greenwich, United Kingdom
This conference is organized by the DEXA Association in parallel with DEXA 2000
(11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications).

The main objective of this conference is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, developers, and users all interested in electronic commerce and web technologies and to assess current methodologies and new research directions. Although a natural focus will be on computer science issues, we expressly welcome technical research contributions from economics, business, law, and other relevant disciplines. The conference will be organized as a two track conference: E-commerce and Web Technologies.

Major Topics (Electronic Commerce) are:

• Auction and negotiation technology
• Agent-mediated electronic commerce
• Business Process Reengineering for electronic commerce
• Case studies in electronic commerce
• Consumer protection in electronic commerce
• Costs and benefit aspects
• Cryptographic techniques and applications
• Digital goods and products
• Electronic commerce application fields (such as health care, tourism, trade, university, government, logistics and transport)
• Electronic payment systems and exchange protocols
• Electronic publishing
• Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
• Innovative business models
• Intellectual property licensing
• Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts
• Legal and privacy issues
• Network pricing and quality of service
• Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues
• Security issues and methods
• Social, organizational and cross-cultural issues
• Standards for electronic commerce

Major Topics (Web Technologies) are :

• Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc)
• Web data models
• Web data integration and wrappers
• Web query languages
• Web query processing and optimization
• Storage structures and indexing techniques for web data
• Web warehousing
• Knowledge discovery of web data
• Web data mining and analysis
• Discovering structures in web data
• Web site management
• View maintenance of web data
• Web security
• Mobile agents to deal with web data
• Digital libraries and information retrieval
• Web caching
• Web data visualization
• Web Farming