14-16 December 2004
Cozumel, Mexico


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  • Welcome
  • Call for Papers
  • Conference Committee
  • Conference Themes
  • Accepted Papers
  • Special Topics Sessions
  • Important Dates
  • Registration
  • Conference Venue

Welcome


Welcome to the 3rd IBIMA Conference. This major international event will be held in Cozumel, Mexico from 14 - 16 December 2004. 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 full papers, 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 3rd IBIMA 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. 
  • 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.  Summary of review feedback will be sent back to the author(s) in most cases.  All review comments and suggestions should be addressed in the final submission. SubmittedPapers 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)


Conference Committees


Conference Chair


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

Local Chair


Miguel R. Olivas-Luján, Tec De Monterrey, México e-mail: mrolivas@itesm.mx

Spanish Track Chair


Christiane E. Metzner Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Advisory Committee


Macedonio Alanis, Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), México
Mel Damodaran, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Markus Mau, University of Giessen, Germany
Nicole Mau, University of Giessen, Germany
Majed Al-Mashari, King Saud University, KSA
Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Alcina Prata, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
Laura Anna Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Magdy Serour, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee,  USA
Salvador Trevino, Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), México

Program Committee


Syed Abbas Ali, Ajman University of Science and Technology, UAE
Maurice Abi-Raad, RMIT, Australia
Khalil Abuosba, The A. Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences, Jordan
Ammar Ahmed, University of New South Wales, Australia
Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Mohammed Ali Akour, Al Albayt University, Jordan
Adel Al-Alawi, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
R.Mubarak Ali, Flinders University, Australia

Tariq Alsindi, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

Mustafa Ally, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Ahmed Azam, Claremont Graduate University, USA
Imad Baalbaki, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Abdul Hafeez-Baig, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Bob Barbour, Unitec New Zealand, New Zealand

Paolo Buono, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Asaari, Univ. Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Ciprian Candea, Wittmann & Partner Computer Systems Sibiu, Romania
Ricardo Cattafi, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela

Sherry Y. Chen, Brunel University, UK
Bishwajit Choudhary, Strategic Payment Services, Norway

Vincenzo D'Andrea,Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Reggie Davidrajuh, Stavanger University College, Norway
Arif Djunaidy, Surabaya Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Laurel Evelyn Dyson, University of Technology-Sydney, Australia

Jean-Louis Ermine, Institut National des Télécommunications, France

Mohammad Eyadat, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA
Iqbal Gondal, Monash University, Australia

Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

John Debenham, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Brunel University, UK
Ahmed El-Ragal, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
Susana de Juana Espinosa, University of Alicante, Spain

Jean-Louis Ermine, Institut National des Télécommunications, France

Angel Grediaga, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Xiang Gao, Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands

Robert Goodwin, Flinders University, Australia

Suraya Hamid, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Salaheldin Ismail, Qatar University, Qatar
Ric Jentzsch, University of Canberra, Australia
Julius Jillbert, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
Noorliza Karia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Saied Khayat,University of Wollongong in Dubai , UAE
Halim Khelalfa, University of Wollongong in Dubai , UAE
Rami Khasawneh, Lewis University, USA

Zlatko J Kovacic, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, New Zealand

Supakorn Kungpisdan, Monash University, Australia
Rene Leveaux, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Wei-Ming Lin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Qingxiong Ma, Central Missouri State University, USA
Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK

Wathiq Mansoor, Zayed University, UAE
Ángel Lucas González Martínez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,Spain

Wayne Moore, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Higinio Mora Mora, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Sameera Mubarak, University of South Australia, Australia

Juan José Moreno Navarro, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain
Norelva Niño, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Juan José Moreno Navarro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Ángel Grediaga Olivo, University of Alicante, Spain
David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Craig Parker, Deakin University, Australia

Roberto Paiano, University of Lecce, Italy
Hajo Reijers, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,  The Netherlands
Hugo Rehesaar, University of New South Wales, Australia
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

Edna Ruckhaus, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Deb Sagarmay, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Paulus Insap Santosa, National university of Singapore, Singapore
Andy Seddon, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Malaysia
Seyed A. Shahrestani, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Gabriele Stoppa, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Gustavo Santana Torellas, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico
Najib Saylani, Hofstra University, USA

Loay Sehwail, Oklahoma State University, USA
Alan Sixsmith, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

waleed.wagealla, University of Strathclyde, UK
Edgar R. Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dianne Wingham, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Wojciech R. Wiza, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute "JurInfoR-MSU", Russia
Yuk Kuen (Zoe) Wong, Univ. of Technology-Sydney/Griffith Univ., Australia
Min-You Wu, The University of New Mexico, USA

Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Constantin-Bala Zamfirescu, University of Sibiu, Romania


Conference Themes


General Theme
E-Business and Organizations in the 21st Century


Theme 1: E-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

Theme 2: E- Business: Applications, issues, and solutions

  • E-supply chain
  • Interorganizational information systems
  • Partner relationship management
  • E-Learning
  • E-training
  • E-Teams
  • Application Service Providers
  • E-sourcing
  • E-procurement
  • RFID, digital tags, and smart labels
  • Global positioning systems and service delivery

Theme 3: 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 4: E-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 
  • Intergovernmental issues in local and state e-governments
  • Legal and political issues in e-government
  • E-government and M-government best practices
  • Infrastructure requirements of hardware, software, communication technologies.
  • Social, technical, and economical aspects of e-government

Theme 5: M-Commerce: Research Challenges and Business Models

  • Mobile 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 6:  E-Transformation: Analysis, Trend and Impact on Organizations  

  • Customer relationship management 
  • Business process re-design in the information age
  • E-business integration
  • Enterprise resource planning
  • Total quality management
  • Cycle time reduction
  • adoption and diffusion of emerging technologies
  • Virtual organization management
  • Knowledge management
  • Managing emerging technologies
  • Telecommuting and employees productivity
  • Traditional vs. online decision support systems
  • Change management and organizational performance measures
  • Just-in-time training on emerging technologies
  • Polices and management issues on the adoption of emerging technologies
  • IS department role in transforming organizations
  • Modern information systems issues, trends, and challenges.

List of Accepted Papers

    Special Topics Sessions


    You can also submit a proposal to organize an invited sessionworkshop, 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)
    • Paper submission deadline: October 11, 2004
    • Camera ready submission: November 10, 2004
    • Extended Registration fee deadline: November 10, 2004




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