- Welcome
- Call for Papers
- Conference Committee
- Conference Themes
- Accepted Papers
- Special Topics Sessions
- Important Dates
- Registration
- Conference Venue
Welcome
Welcome to web site of The 2003 International Business Information Management Conference. This major international event will be held in Cairo, Egypt from 16 - 18 December 2003. The conference will address a range of important themes with respect to e-business and its impact on organizations. The conference will include numerous paper and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe.
This is a conference for those who are interested in global business development in the 21st century. All are encouraged to register and attend this major and timely conference. A range of travel, tour and accommodation options are also available.
Conference participants are welcome to submit presentation extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Please refer to call for papers.
The phenomenal growth of the Internet has lead businesses around the globe to believe in the promise of utilizing the Internet to conduct business. The 2003 International Business Information Management Conference aims at exploring the role of e-business and its impact on organizations in the 21st century. While the focus is e-business, this conference brings together all business functional areas such as logistics and distributions, marketing, sales, accounting, finance, and management to assess the impact of e-business on these areas and to coordinate efforts among different business functions in transforming organizations. Please refer to conference themes and tracks.
Call for Papers
Interested academics and practitioners are invited to submit:
- Research papers: complete papers (5000 words max.) with complete references section (MIS Quarterly Style).
- Research-in-progress papers: a draft paper ( max. 5 pages or 1000 words)
All papers will be directed to the appropriate theme and/or track. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution. Each paper will be exposed to a full blind peer review by two reviewers in the topical area. Summary of review feedback/reports will be sent back to the author(s) in most cases. All reviewers' comments and suggestions should be addressed in the final submission. Submitted Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
Conference proceedings will be published as an e-book on a CD (ISBN 0-9753393-0-3)
Invited Sessions
You can also submit a proposal to organize an invited session, workshop, and/or tutorial. Proposals to organize invited sessions should include the following information: name and address, e-mail of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised. Usually, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer. E-mail proposal to the conference chair at khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu
Each invited session will have at least 6 paper. The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, etc. The review process for invited sessions will strictly follow the review process for regular submission. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution. Each paper will be exposed to a full blind peer review by two reviewers in the topical area. Final camera-ready papers will be reviewed by one reviewer. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The efforts of the Invited Session Chairs will be recognized during the conference and their names will appear on the conference proceedings as Associate Editors |
Conference Committees
Conference Chair
Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University, USA e-mail: khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu
Local Chair
Yasser El-Kassrawy, Tanta University, Egypt
Local Organizing Chair
Wessam Salah, Cairo, Egypt
Advisory Committee
France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA
Nevert Boraie, TripleLine Consulting, USA
Janice M. Burn, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Elizabeth Daniel, Information Systems Research Centre, Cranfield University, UK
Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK
Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Ralf Klischewski, University of Hamburg, Germany
Prashant Palvia, The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA
Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA
Moh'd Radaideh, UAE University, UAE
Sushil Sharma, Ball State University, USA
Program Committee
Olayele Adelakun, DePaul University, USA
John Affisco, Hofstra University, USA
Majed Al-Mashari, King Saud University, KSA
Mokhtar Amami, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
Atta Badii, University College Northampton, UK
Mohamed Amine Benkiran, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Morocco
Subhasish Dasgupta, George Washington University, USA
Mamdouh Farid, Hofstra University, USA
Jorge Marx Gómez, Technical University of Clausthal , Germany
Kyeong-Soon Kang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Wafa Khalif, Tunis University,Tunisia
George Kostopoulos, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Moez Limayem, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ian MacInnes, Syracuse University, USA
En Mao, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Ahmed Safwat, Queen's University, Canada
Najib Saylani, Hofstra University, USA
Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Ahmad Syamil, Arkansas State University, USA
Khaled Wahba, Cairo University, Egypt
Kustim Wibowo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Technical Committee
Maged Abdelsalam, Brunel University, UK
Ammar Ahmed, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Nabeel Al-Qirim, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Minwir Al-Shammari, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Alaa Aly, UAE University, UAE
Youssef Amghar, INSA de Lyon, France
Najah Y. Ashry, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia
Yacine Atif, UAE University, UAE
Anurag Awasthi, University of Rhode Island, USA
Imad Baalbaki, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA
Mario Benassi, University of Milan, Italy
Utpal Bose, University of Houston - Downtown, USA
Malin Brännback, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Barbara Catania, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Wang Yin Chai, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Thomas Chesney, Napier University, UK
Bishwajit Choudhary, Norwegian Banks' Payments & Clearing Central, Norway
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM & ESSEC, France
Vincenzo D'Andrea, Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Mel Damodaran, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
C N G (Kit) Dampney, University of Newcastle, Australia
D. P. Dash, Xavier Institute of Management, India
Roger Debreceny, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Claus Eikemeier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Dani Saad El-Dine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Jamal El-Den, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hazem El Khatib from UAE University, UAE
Uchenna Eze, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tony Feghali, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Kay Fielden, UNITEC, New Zealand
Bardo Fraunholz, Deakin University, Australia
Jai Ganesh, Infosys Technologies Ltd, India
Nektarios Georgalas, BT Exact , UK
Hassan Ghaziri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Driss Guerchi, UAE University, UAE
Catherine Hajnal, Carleton University, Canada
Harmain Harmain, UAE University, UAE
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Daniele Herin, Montpellier II University, France
Mihyar Hesson from UAE University, UAE
Anne Honkaranta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Amr A. Ibrahim, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Rosziati Ibrahim, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Ahmad Jaffar, UAE University, UAE
Anurag Jain, Indian Institute of Management, India
kai Jakobs, Aachen University, Germany
Marijn Janssen, University of Technology Delft, Netherlands
Ric Jentzsch, University of Canberra, Australia
Damir Kalpic, University of Zagreb, Herzegovina
Johan M Karlsson, Lund University, Sweden
Jeannette-Marie Kelley, Temple University, USA
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Jean-Pierre Kuilboer, University of Massachusetts, USA
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Hsiang-Jui Kung, Georgia Southern University, USA
Matthew Kuofie, Illinois State University, USA
Ibrahim Kushchu, International University of Japan, Japan
Chad Lin, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Patrick Loh, Knowledgeworks Consultants, Singapore
En Mao, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Rachel McLean, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Luvai F. Motiwalla, University of Massachusetts, USA
Christiane Metzner, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK
Toshio Mitsufuji, Siebold University of Nagasaki, Japan
Hans M. Moonen, Erasmus University , Netherlands
Alison Munn, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Ilke Onur, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Antonio Padilla Meléndez, University of Málaga, Spain
Jagdish Pathak, University of Windsor, Canada
Craig Parker, Deakin University, Australia
Dilip Patel, London South Bank University, UK
Shushma Patel, London South Bank University, UK
Jagdish Pathak, University of Windsor, Canada
Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Fuatai Purcell, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Samoa
Nasrin Rahmati, Monash University, Australia
Somasundaram Ramanathan, Aalborg University, UK
Ashok Ranchhod, Southampton Busines School, UK
Eduardo J. Redondo, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Álvaro Rocha, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Marcus Rothenberger, The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Ladislav Samuelis, Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic
M Saraee, University of Salford, UK
Najib Saylani, Hofstra University, USA
Eugenio Scalise, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Anne-Marie Schlosser, Centre Franco-Viet. d'enseignement de la Gestion, Vietnam
Janine Schmidt, The University of Queensland, Australia
Satish K Sehgal, Indian Institute of Management, India
Magdy Serour, University of Technology Sydney Australia
Afzaal H. Seyal, Institute of Technology Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
Peter Shackleton, Victoria University, Australia
Seung Kyoon Shin, University of Rhode Island, USA
Deb Sledgianowski, Hofstra University, USA
Krishnamoorthy Srikumar, Indian Institute of Management, India
Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University, UK
Ahmad Syamil, Arkansas State University, USA
Bhuvan Unhelkar, University of Technology Sydney Australia
Lejla Vrazalic, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yun Wan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Stuart Warden, Cape Technikon, South Africa
Dwayne Whitten, Baylor University, USA
Kustim Wibowo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dianne Wingham, University of Newcastle, Australia
Peter Woolsey, The Euro Baltic Software Alliance
Judy Young, University of Tasmania, Australia
Raymond Young, Macquarie University, Australia
Khaled Zahr, CRAM, Lebanon
Philippe Zgheib, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Conference Themes
General Theme
E-Business and Organizations in the 21st Century
Theme 1: Electronic Commerce: trends, strategies, and Concerns
- The Internet and communication technologies
- B2B, B2C, and C2C
- Internet auctions
- Interanets and Extranets
- E-mail and employees privacy
- Collaborative commerce Electronic
- Contracting and Electronic Negotiation
- Computer networks
- Cyber laws and intellectual property
- E-supply chain
Theme 2: E-commerce: Software Engineering and Technologies
- Software engineering of e-business systems
- Software frameworks for e-business systems
- Software standards for e-business systems
- Agent-mediated e-commerce
- E-commerce knowledge extraction and search
- Knowledge-based solutions to issues in e-commerce
- Prospects of the Semantic Web for e-commerce research and applications
- Mass Personalization Technologies
- User Modeling and Customer Profiling
- Privacy and Anonymizing Applications
- Data Mining techniques for E-Commerce
Theme 3: Electronic Government: Initiatives, Policies, and Progress
- E-government initiatives worldwide
- E-government strategies and implementation procedures
- E-government portals and their role in disseminating the use of e-government
- E-government issues in government-to-citizens relationships
- E-government issues in government-to-businesses relationships (e-procurement)
- Intergovernmental issues in local and state e-governments
- Legal and political issues in e-government
- E-government best practices
- Infrastructure requirements of hardware, software, communication technologies.
- Social, technical, and economical aspects of e-government
Theme 4: Mobile Commerce: Research Challenges and Business Models
- M-commerce business models
- Wireless application providers
- Global positioning systems and service delivery
- M-commerce adoption and diffusion
- Social, legal, and security issues
- M-commerce best practice
- Research in M-commerce
- M-commerce delivery modes
- M-commece and financial services
- M-commerce and customers' experience
Theme 5: E-business: Trend and Impact on Organizations
- Customer relationship management
- Business process re-design
- E-business integration
- Enterprise resource planning
- Total quality management
- Cycle time reduction
- Virtual organization management
- Knowledge management
- Managing emerging technologies
- Telecommuting and employees productivity
List of Accepted Papers
Special Topics Sessions
- name, address, and e-mail of proposer
- title of session
- a 100-word description of the topic of the session
- a short description on how the session will be advertised. Usually, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer.
E-mail proposal to the conference chair at khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu.
The efforts of the Invited Session Chairs will be recognized during the conference and their names will appear on the conference proceedings as Associate Editors |
Important Dates
- Paper Submission: Closed
- Extended Paper submission deadline: October 25, 2003
- Extended Notification of acceptance: November 10th, 2003
- Extended Camera ready submission: November 20th, 2003
- Extended Registration fee: November 20th, 2003
The conference is closed
Conference Closed