Call for Participation

International Workshop on Advance Issues of
E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems

Santa Clara, California, April 8-9, 1999
 
A Joint Workshop of
the 3^rd RTDB (Real-Time Databases) and
the 2^nd DARE (Dependable & Real-Time E-Commerce Systems)

In Cooperation With:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (Approval Pending)
IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce
Silicon Valley Journal

Homepage: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/Wecwis.html

Registration Page: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/Wecwis_reg.html

DARE98 Homepage: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/DARE98.html

The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of WWW have created a tremendous opportunity for conducting business on Internet. The terms e-commerce and e-business have been used to describe those systems and technologies that make conducting business on Internet possible. The purpose of this workshop is to identify and to explore the technical issues and solutions for future e-commerce and web-based information systems. The WECWIS workshop is to be a forum for free exchange of ideas between academics and industry.

10:00 - 12:00. Session I. Real-Time Issues in E-Commerce and WIS

* A Real-Time Protocol for Stock Market Transactions
S. Subramanian and M. Singhal, Ohio State University, USA

* Data Broadcast for Time-Constrained Read-Only Transactions in Mobile Computing Systems
Kam-yiu Lam, E. Chan, and C. Yuen
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

* Mirror: A State-conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated Real-Time Databases
Ming Xiong, K. Ramamritham, J. Haritsa, J. Stankovic Univ. of Massachusetts, USA

* Active and Real-Time Functionalities for Electronic Brokerage Design
M. Beck, P. Konana, G. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA

* A Quantitative Analysis of the Behavior of a Large Non-English E-Broker
V. Almeida, W. Meira Jr., V. Ribeiro, N. Ziviani,
Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

* Proposal of Application Architecture in E-Commerce Service between Companies
M. Mori, H. Tsuru, R. Itsuki, H. Yajima, Hitachi, Japan

* Customization Rule Generation for Electronic Sales Promotion System in Wholesale Industry
M. Yumoto, K. Oh, N. Komoda, T. Mori, Osaka University, Japan

* Business-to-Business E-Commerce with Open Buying on the Internet
L. Liu, J. Tian, J. Li, J. Chung, IBM China Research Lab, China

4:00 - 6:30. Session III. Work-in-Progress/Industrial Session
Chair: Jen Yao Chung

* Certifying E-Commerce Software for Security
Anup K. Ghosh, Reliable Software Technologies
* B2B marketmaker business model
Jeff Leane, Chemdex Corporation
* Product Simulation with Java in the Internet
Jens Ehrke, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
* Digital multimedia content management for web-based information access: issues and discussion
Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA
* A Web-based Information System for Stock Selection and Evaluation
Mehdi R. Zargham, Mohammad R. Sayeh, Southern Illinois Univ.
* Digital Catalog Library: A Shared Repository of Online Catalogs for Electronic Commerce
Sang-goo Lee , Chisu Wu, Kapsoo Kim, Dongkyu Kim, Woochang Shin, Korea
* Web-Enabling Legacy Systems Through Software Transformations
Silvia Mara Abrahao, Federal University of Sao Carlos
* FIGI: The Architecture of an Internet-based Financial Information Gathering Infrastructure
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus
* A field study of using OBI to streamline the purchasing process
Joanna Ho, UC Irvine
* Using Datalog Data Model and Data Mining to solve Bill Of Materials (BOM) personalization problems
Alberto Sulaiman, Brasil
* The concept of Federated Electronic Markets
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, University of St. Gallen

7:00. Banquet
Invited Talk: From Deep Blue to Data Mining for e-Business Applications
Chung-Jen(C.J.) Tan, IBM Research

April 9, Friday

* An Advanced Multimedia Infrastructure for WWW-based Information Systems
F. Rousseau and A. Duda, Open Group Research Institute, France

* Speachnet: A Network of Speech-Accessible Objects
R. Frost, University of Windsor, Canada

* Monitoring and Prediction of Network Performance
B. Frogner and A. Cannara, NetPredict, USA

* Towards a scalable PKI for E-commerce systems
C. Wang and W. Wulf, University of Virginia, USA

* Semantic Metadata for the Integration of Web-based Data for E-Commerce
Christof Bornhovd, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

* A Component-Oriented Approach For Enterprise-Devoted E-Commerce
M. Abolhassani and G. Szentivanyi Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

* The Evolution of Business-to-Business Commerce Systems
The Influence of New Information Technology Models
Jim Senn, Georgia State University, USA

* A Conceptual Annotation Approach to Indexing in a Web-based Information System
E. Bertino, B. Catania, G. Zarri, University of Milan, Italy

* Customization in Online Trade Processes
A. Basu and S. Muylle, Vanderbilt University, USA

* The Effect of Bargaining in Electronic Commerce
T.-P. Liang and H.-S. Doong, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

5:30. Closing Remarks
  

Technology Drivers in Electronic Commerce

A combination of business, social, and technical possibilities are driving the rapid progress in electronic commerce. Many problems remain to be solved before e-commerce becomes a standard form of business activity. Customers must find it convenient and easy to use and have confidence that their information will be safeguarded and that their transactions will be completed and honored. E-commerce promises to provide low-cost solutions and an ability to serve much larger numbers of suppliers and customers. As web-based commerce moves from experimental use to become a business-critical channel, there will be demands for very high levels of reliability, availability, and trustworthiness. To achieve such dependable and efficient service, we will need to use networks that support qualities of service, systems that can replicate resources, and software that can tolerate failures of various components without interrupting service to most users or corrupting any vital data.

Stuart Feldman leads the newly-established IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce, which brings together top leaders in business and academia to research the impact of emerging technologies on the future of business and commerce. He oversees the work of more than 50 IBM scientists whose projects focus primarily on advanced solutions and technologies for complex business-to-business applications. In addition, as Director of Networked Computing Software, Feldman manages a technical staff of about 100 researchers in network-related technologies, including web servers, anti-virus software, advanced multimedia, high-performance databases, distributed computing and electronic commerce.

Feldman joined IBM in 1995 as Department Group Manager, Network Applications Research. Feldman was the technical leader of the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), an international research group made up of leading telecommunications and computing companies around the world. He is a Fellow of ACM and of IEEE and is Chair of the newly-founded ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecomm).

Banquet Speaker and Abstract

From Deep Blue to Data Mining for e-Business Applications

Deep Blue, the IBM Chess Machine, made history, in May 1997, by becoming the first computer to beat the current human World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov, in a regulation match. The IBM Deep Blue system demonstrated that a sophisticated chess system can be developed using the IBM RS/6000 SP parallel processor. This accomplishment met a long standing challenge in computer science. We will describe the highlights of the match and illustrate how this technology has paved the way for other Deep Computing research activities such as data mining for e-business applications.

Chung-Jen(C.J.) Tan is the Senior Manager of the Application Systems Technologies department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He is also the manager of the IBM Deep Blue computer chess project. He received the BSEE degree from Seattle University, in 1963, and the Dr. of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University, N.Y., N.Y., in 1969. He joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 1969 as a Research Staff Member.
Since 1984 he has been engaged in various research activities in the area of architecture development and machine design for highly parallel scalable systems. As part of the overall research activities in understanding how to effectively solve large complex problems with parallel processing computing systems, the Deep Blue project was started in his department in 1992. In 1997 he led the Deep Blue team in a highly successful historical match against the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. His current research interests are in the area of Deep Computing and data mining for e-commerce. C.J. is a Fellow of ACM, and a Senior member of the IEEE.

Important Dates 

      Registration Page: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~klin/Wecwis_reg.html

Organizing Committee 
  

Meeting Location