The IFIP TC8 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007)

EM2I’07

CONFENIS Special Session on The International Symposium on Electronic Marketplace Integration & Interoperability (EM2I’07) is a new venue for presenting state-of-the-art research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of integration technology for electronic marketplaces that affect business interoperability between firms and within supply chains. Although the traditional forms of e-marketplaces such as intermediaries, supplier portals, and content hubs are an important area of focus for the symposium, integration technology is increasingly supporting a much wider range of business interoperability that enables contextually heterogeneous enterprises to semantically work together beyond operational transactions. As more and more firms in all regions of the globe are able to interact online, we are rapidly moving toward an integrated global e-marketplace consisting of loosely coupled vertical, horizontal, and regional e-marketplaces.

Topics of interest for CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I 2007 include all contexts in which integration technology is used to mediate enterprise activities through e-marketplaces such as buyer and seller matching, transaction facilitation, and legal infrastructure. The technology may include: business data engineering; languages for describing products and services; business document modeling and integration, business process design and coordination, marketplace services collaboration; semantic technologies.

Given its specified context of e-marketplace, CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I is a multi-disciplinary symposium, and participation of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures and perspectives is strongly encouraged. We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners in all sectors, including academia, industry, and government.

CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I targets at the leading edge of thinking about the role of e-marketplace technologies in our modern business. With your help, CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I’07 – the first exciting venue for communicating with the talented ideas of business interoperability on e-marketplace – will play an important role in future on creating profitable e-commerce technologies. Come and help us make CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I’07 a stimulating and exciting event.

We look forward to seeing you in Beijing.

Co-Chairs of EM2I

chairs@em2i.org

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