While Information Systems continue to transform organizations, organizational IT infrastructures and business models are themselves beginning to change. There is an increased focus on service orientation and performance levels of IT infrastructures and systems. Outsourcing and Off-shoring strategies are evolving to include utility based approaches to computing. These developments are showing promises of a renewed period of innovative thinking in e-business technologies. The progress in Global Information Infrastructure has increased access and improved the promise for a better tomorrow. New initiatives such as Cloud Computing and Collective Intelligence are rapidly becoming active research areas. This workshop will engage IT researchers and practitioners to explore and respond to the grand challenges of next generation e-business systems.

We invite research articles with a broad coverage of technical, managerial, economic, or strategic issues relating to e-business. We also welcome submissions on the broader e-business issues that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Customer Centric & Service Oriented Enterprises
• E Business Standards
• Economic Modeling of Telecommunication Markets & Services
• Economics of E-Commerce
• Economic models for Mashups and Cloud Systems
• Market & Service Engineering
• Multiagent based Business Process & Supply Chain Management
• Multiagent System, Semantic Web & Context Aware Computing
• Organizational Implications of Electronic Markets
• Prediction Markets
• RFID technology, models, issues and supply chain management
• Security Informatics
• Virtual Communities
• Social Computing Applications and Collective Intelligence
• E-Business & Poverty Alleviation
• Cloud Computing
• Web 2.0 & Beyond
• Web Intelligence
• Web Services & Architecture
• Mobile Technologies
• Web Based Services in Health Care

All papers must be submitted online and will be blindly reviewed. We solicit both completed research and short research-in-progress submissions. Complete research papers should be no more than 12 pages in length, including the abstract, text, figures, tables, and references. Short research-in-progress papers should not exceed 7 pages. WEB 2009 will have a poster/demo session. For participants interested in presenting in this poster/demo session, an extended-abstract submission is required and will be reviewed. Poster/demo submissions should be limited to 2 pages (as extended abstracts).  Please explore our website for more details.

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