• Semantic technologies for business interoperability on e-marketplaces
• Ontology-based e-marketplace integration technologies
• Collaboration-based e-marketplace integration technologies
• Standards and protocols for business vocabulary, documents, processes, and services
• Semantic approaches to business rules on e-marketplaces
• Computational linguistics in the context of e-marketplaces
• Web Service technology on e-marketplaces
• Service-oriented models and frameworks for e-marketplaces
• Service-oriented approaches for fragmented e-marketplaces
• Technical functions on e-marketplaces
• Matching sellers and buyers
• Support electronic marketing
• Facilitating business transactions and international trade, including e-trading, e-payment, e-logistics, e-warehousing, e-customs, e-quality inspection, and e-banking
• Support of after-sales services
• Securely protecting e-marketplaces
• Implementing the legal infrastructure of e-marketplaces
• Empirical research on e-marketplaces
• Trends of e-marketplace development
• Business models for e-marketplaces
• Vertical, horizontal, and regional aspects of e-marketplaces

We solicit original unpublished full papers of both technical and empirical aspects. Papers should be submitted in IEEE conference paper format and should not exceed 6 pages. Maximum of two additional pages is allowed for US$150/page. Each paper will undergo a double-blind review process and typically be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings of ICEBE 2009, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and made available in the IEEE Digital Library. The paper submission will take place using EasyChair.

Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for a fast-track submission to Springer's Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business.