4-6 July 2004
Amman, Jordan


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ISBN : 978-0-9753393-1-2


  • 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 2004 International Business Information Management Conference. This major international event will be held in Amman, Jordan from 4 - 6 July 2004.  The conference meetings will be held at the Royal Scientific Society  in Amman.  The conference will address a range of important themes with respect to Information Technology and its impact on organizations in the 21st century.  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 full papers, extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Please refer to call for papers.

The phenomenal growth in communications technologies has lead businesses around the globe to conduct business globally. The 2004 International Business Information Management Conference aims at exploring the role of computers and advancements in communication and information technologies and their impact on organizations in the 21st century. 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. 
  • 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 0-9753393-1-1)


Conference Committees


Conference Chair


Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University, USA e-mail: khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu

Local Chair


Wessam Salah, Cairo, Egypt

Program Co-Chairs


Sayfuddin Muaz, Vice President, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan Moh'd Radaideh, UAE University, UAE

Advisory Committee


Mustafa Alshawi, Salford University, UK

Hamid Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA

Jalal Atoum, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan

Arafat Awajan, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan
Eesa Bastaki, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE

Emad Bataineh, Zayed University, UAE
France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA

Elizabeth Daniel, Information Systems Research Centre, Cranfield Univ., UK
Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California, USA
Jorge Marx Gómez, Institut für Informatik, TU-Clausthal, Germany
Val Hooper, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, USA

Saqer Abdel-Rahim, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan
Karim Ramadan, General Manager, Microsoft-Egypt, Egypt 
Mohammad Al-Rousan, American University in Sharijah, UAE

Hassan Selim, UAE University, UAE

Magdy Serour, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Afzaal H. Seyal, Institute of Technology Brunei , Brunei Darussalam
Sushil Sharma, Ball State University, USA
Roland Traunmüller, Institute for Applied Computer Sc., Linz University, Austria

Program Committee


Abdulmohsen N. Abanumy, University of East Anglia, UK
Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE
Wael Adi, Ittisalat University College, UAE
John Affisco, Hofstra University, USA
Ammar Ahmed, University of New South Wales, Australia

Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Mohammed Ali Akour, Al Albayt University, Jordan 
Bruno Apolloni, The University of Milan, Italy

Ala A. Al Bakri, Emirates American Consulting & Training, UAE
Muhanad AlBayaty, The Hashemite University, Jordan

Khamis Nasser Al-Gharbi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Omar Al-Jarrah, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Lars Algermissen, Universität Münster, Germany

Syed Abbas Ali, Ajman University of Science and Technology, UAE
Alaa Aly, UAE University, UAE

Yahya H. Alzoubi, Philadelphia University, Jordan
Hammad Akbar, University of East Anglia, UK (excellent constructive review)
Youssef Amghar, INSA de Lyon  France

Mahmoud Arayssi, The American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Parvinder Arora, University School of Management, India
Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Asaari, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Saïd Assar, Institut National des Telecoms, France
Srinivas Aswathanarayaniah, Monash University, Australia
Yacine Atif, UAE University, UAE

Loukopoulos Athanasios, The Hong Kong Univ. of Sc. and Tech., Hong kong
Abdel-Elah Al-Ayyoub, Arab Open University, Jordan

Atef Bader, Lucent Technologies, USA
Atta Badii, University College Northampton, UK
Djida Bahloul, INSA de Lyon  France

Imad Baalbaki, The American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Abdul Hafeez-Baig, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Zaitun Abu Bakar, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Lynne P. Baldwin, Brunel University, UK
Ahmad Barbour, UAE University, UAE

Bob Barbour, Unitec, New Zealand
Sameer Bataineh, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan
Joerg Becker, Universität Münster, Germany

Rob Von Behren, University of California-Berkeley, USA
kamel Besbes, Sciences faculty of Monastir, Tunisia 
Vikram Bhakoo, Monash University, Australia
Olfa Boubaker, Institut National des Sc. Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunisia
Imed Boughzala, GET/ Institut National des Telecommunications, France

Danny Brash, Stockholm University, Sweden

John Byrne, RMIT, Australia
Javier Soriano-Camino, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Jane-Lisa.Coughlan, Brunel University, UK

Felix T. S. Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ricardo Cattafi, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela
Christine Daun,  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Reggie Davidrajuh, Stavanger University College, Norway
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Marie-hélène Delmond, HEC School of Management, France
Jamal El-Den, The American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia

Yogesh Deshpande, University of Western Sydney , Australia
George Ditsa, University of Wollongong, Australia

Ioannis P. Drositis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Brunel University, UK (excellent constructive review)
Arif Djunaidy, Surabaya Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Inas E. Ezz, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Egypt (excellent constructive review)
José Luis Fuertes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Max Gallo, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia
Abdullah Gani, University of Sheffield, UK
Xiang Gao, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Angel J. Garcia, University of Malaga, Spain

Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt
Iqbal Gondal, Monash University, Australia
Katja Harej, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Jens Hartmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Håkan Hasewinkel, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

Anne Honkaranta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Sharaf Al-Horani, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Gordon Hunter, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Mihyar Hesson, UAE University , UAE

Noor Raihan Ab Hamid, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Beatriz de la Iglesia, University of East Anglia, UK

Tariq H. Ismail, University of Qatar, Qatar
Sarabdeen Jawahitha, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Gordana Jovanovic, Instit. Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
Ann Johansson, University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla, Sweden

Ken Johnson, Monash University, Australia

Matjaz B. Juric, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Joarder Kamruzzaman, Monash University,  Australia

Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State University, USA
Parwaiz Karamat, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, New Zealand
Noorliza Karia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Lami Kaya, University of Sharjah, UAE

Saif Al-Ketbi, UAE University, UAE
Hazem Al-Khateb, UAE University, UAE

Asad I. Khan, Monash University, Australia

Vijay Khandelwal, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Khaled Khan, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Redha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Marite Kirikova, Rigas Tehniskā Universitāte, Latvia
Marsudi W. Kisworo, University of Paramadina, Indonesia
George K. Kostopoulos, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Zlatko J Kovacic, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, New Zealand (excellent constructive review)
Supakorn Kungpisdan, Monash University, Australia
Edmonds Lau, Swinburn University of Technology, Australia

Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Albert Lejeune, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Kirsten Lenz, Universität Karlsruhe (Westhochschule), Germany
Rene Leveaux, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Eurico Lopes, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Kathy Lynch, Monash University, Australia 
Wathiq Mansoor, Zayed University, UAE
Vicky Manthou, University of Macedonia, Greece
En Mao, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Markus Mau, University of Giessen, Germany

Nicole Mau, University of Giessen, Germany

Mohamed Ishak Mohamed Mazahir, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Robin R. McGrew-Zoubi, Zayed University, UAE
Mo Mohasses, Sharjah Colleges, UAE
Wayne E Moore, Charles Sturt University, Australia 
Jennifer Moro, Cattaneo University – LIUC, Italy

Chihab Ben Moussa, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Volker Mueller, Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Indonesia
John Murphy, Dublin City University, Ireland
Nadim Obeid, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Ángel Grediaga Olivo, Universidad Alicante, Spain
Kok-leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia
Victor Pankratius, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Brunel University, UK
Shushma Patel, London South Bank University, UK
Mercy Pazhamalil, the Higher Colleges of Technology , UAE 
Kanapaty Pelly Periasamy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zijad Pita, RMIT, Australia
Jana Polgar, Monash University, Australia

Alcina Prata, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal (excellent constructive review)

Ahmed A. Al-Qatamin, Mu'tah University, Jordan
Nabeel Al-Qirim, Auckland University, New Zealand

Jaime Ramírez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  1. M. Rajesh, Xavier Institute of Management, India
    Hugo Rehesaar, University of New South Wales, Australia

R A Roets, University of Fort Hare, UK
Tomislav Rozman, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Hajo H. Reijers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,  The Netherlands
Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Paulus Insap Santosa, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Hasan Al-Saedy  Skyline College, UAE
Graeme Salter, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Najib Saylani, Hofstra University, USA 

Gunther Schiefer, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Seyed A. Shahrestani, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Daniel Sommer, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Saeed G. Al-Khalidi Al-Maliki, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Kyeong. S. Kang, Faculty of IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Heikki Karjaluoto, University of Oulu, Finland

Ahmad Kayed, Applied Science University, Jordan

Sue Kemnitzer, National Science Foundation  USA
Ali Al-Badi, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Faruq Al-Omari, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Miguel R. Olivas-Luján, ITESM –Management, México

  1. A. Alwabel, University of Bradford, UK
    Ahmed A. M., The European Centre for TQM, UK
    Charles Dennies, Brunel University, Business Department, UK
    Robert C MacGregor, University of Wollongong,  Australia

Roman Povalej, Institut AIFB - Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
Sojen Pradhan, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Jing Gao, University of South Australia, Australia 
M. A. M. Al-Saud, University of Bradford, UK
Joy Wei He, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pierre Maret, INSA de Lyon  France

Majed Al-Mashari, King Saud University, KSA
Dali Dong, Staffordshire University, UK
Philip C. Windridge, Staffordshire University, UK
Maurice Abi-Raad, RMIT University, Australia 

Sally Rao, Adelaide University, Australia
Shumaila Y. Yousafzai, Cardiff University, United Kingdom 

Salaheldin Salaheldin, University of Qatar, Qatar
Olivier Sandel, University of Strasbourg I, France
Albert H S Scott, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Hong Kong

Loay Sehwail, Oklahoma State University, USA
Nasrin Shah, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Minwir Al-Shammari, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

Sameera Mubarak, University of South Australia, Australia

Khamis Omar, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
Shane Ostenfeld, The University of Newcastle, Australia 
Maurice Abi-Raad, RMIT University,  Australia

Khaled Wahba, Cairo University, Egypt

Stuart Warden, Cape Technikon, South Africa
Ahmad Syamil, Arkansas State University, USA

Muhammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA
Ali Shatnawi, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan
Rasika Suriyaarachchi, University of Western Sydney, Australia 
Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Tameem, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic U., KSA
Raed Abu Zitar, Philadelphia University, Jordan
Walid Saleh, The United Nations University, UAE
Walid Salameh, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Ladislav Samuelis, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Janine Schmidt, The University of Queensland, Australia 

Juergen Seitz, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Saleh Abu-Soud, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan

Mikko T. Siponen, University of Oulu, Finland
Gabriele Stoppa, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Katarina.Stanoevska, Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland
Sabah Abdul-Wahab AL-Tamimi, American College of Dubai, UAE
Denise Tolhurst, University of New South Wales, Australia

Keinam Tsoi, Monash University, Australia

Waleed Wagealla, University of Strathclyde, UK
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, ESSEC, France
Pradeep Waychal, Patni Computer Systems Limited, India

Edgar R. Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dwayne Whitten, Baylor University, USA

Dianne Wingham, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mohammed Younes, Al Ain Women's College, UAE

Mel Damodaran, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand
Hans M. Moonen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Christiane Metzner, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
R.Mubarak Ali, Flinders University, Australia
Tony Hooper, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Bhuvan Unhelkar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Henrique Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Giorgio Valle, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Cheung Chu Ting Ronnie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Khaled Zahr, CRAM, Lebanon
Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute "JurInfoR-MSU", Russia

Philippe Zgheib, The American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Raed Abu Zitar, Philadelphia University, Jordan


Conference Themes


General Theme
Information Technology & Organizations in the 21st Century

topics include but  not limited to:

  • The Internet and communication technologies
  • B2B, B2C, and C2C
  • Internet auctions
  • Interanets and Extranets
  • RFID, digital tags, and smart labels
  • E-mail and employees privacy
  • Collaborative Networks
  • Contracting and Electronic Negotiation
  • Computer networks
  • Cyber laws and intellectual property
  • E-supply chain 
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Software engineering 
  • Software frameworks 
  • Software standards
  • Agent-mediated e-commerce
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Neural Network
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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-commerce and financial services
  • 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
  • Outsourcing
  • Application Service Providers

List of Accepted Papers

    Special Topics 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 3 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

    Important Dates


     
    • Paper submission: Closed  
    • Notification of Acceptance: Within 3 week from submission date (in most cases)
    • Extended Paper submission deadline: May 21, 2004
    • Extended Camera ready submission: June 15, 2004
    • Extended Registration fee deadline: June 15, 2004


     

     

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