Location-based Mobile Commerce Workshop:
 l-Commerce'06

Sunday, August 13th, 2006
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/l-commerce/

In conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC'06)
l-Commerce'06 Workshop will be held at Delta Hotel, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
 

Workshop Theme and Scope:

The recent developments of mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive technologies have generated a wide range of opportunities for enhance physical marketplaces and for pushing traditional commerce beyond physical locations of stores, restaurants, and shopping malls. Wireless and mobile peer-to-peer technology is becoming the facilitator for new ambient location-based commerce, also frequently referred to as l-commerce. l-Commerce is a fusion of mobile commerce and context aware computing. It exploits consumers' proximity to marketplaces by electronically extending the stores' physical area to cover potential customers before they walk into stores. The virtual expansion of the marketplace has the potential of being a powerful tool for consumers by providing information and services relevant to their current location. Once a customer is inside the store, ambient services can further enhance consumers' shopping experiences by providing consumers with recommendations and other helpful product information. Ambient commerce services allow personalization and custom context-sensitive filtering to consumers.

The vision of l-commerce is not limited to the "traditional" business-to-consumer commerce. It also encapsulates mobile peer-to-peer commerce where mobile peers trade and exchange information, services, and other digital goods. l-Commerce also includes business-to-business opportunities by allowing small shops to join and form virtual partnerships therefore increasing their presence in the local marketplace.

The aim of the workshop is to identify and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in ambient and location-based commerce and applications. Location-based Mobile Commerce Workshop (l-Commerce'06) invites authors to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research and visions of the future.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Middleware and Frameworks Supporting l-Commerce.
• Ambient Services and Applications.
• Data Management, Personalization and User Profiles in l-Commerce Environments.
• Context Management for l-Commerce.
• Discovery of Digital Product, Goods and Services in l-Commerce Environments.
• Mobile Components (Mobile Agents) and Agent Technologies.
• Intelligent Graphical User Interface (GUI) for l-Commerce.
• Mobile, Wireless Peer-to-Peer Commerce.
• Wearable Computing for l-Commerce.
• Challenges of Mobile Portals and Hotspots for l-Commerce applications.
• Vehicular Mobile Commerce.
• Impact of GPS and RFID tracking technology on l-Commerce.
• Privacy Concerns, Social and Legal Issues affecting l-Commerce.
• Payment and transaction mechanisms, platforms and solutions.
• Innovative Business Models for l-Commerce.
• Actions, Advertising and Promotions in l-Commerce Environments.

Workshop Deadlines: Deadlines have been pushed back due to a high volume of request for extensions

Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers describing current research and visions of the future. Submitted papers must be unpublished elsewhere and not currently under review for any other publication. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages printed using at least 11-point type and single spacing. All submissions should be in PDF or PostScript format. Each submission should include a cover page, which consists of a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's contact information including author's e-mail address. Guidelines for the preferred publishing format are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission at http://www.easychair.org/lCommerce06/ . Selected papers will be published in a Special Issue on l-Commerce in The International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Workshop co-Chairs:

Olga Ratsimor
  Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  oratsi2@cs.umbc.edu

Timothy Finin
  Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  finin@cs.umbc.edu

Filip Perich
  Shared Spectrum Company
  USA
  filip@perich.net
 

Technical Program Committee:

Yelena Yesha, UMBC. (USA)
Anupam Joshi, UMBC. (USA)
Ora Lassila, Nokia Research (USA)
Helin Heikki, TeliaSonera (Finland)
Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies AG (Switzerland)
Sehl Mellouli, Laval Univ. (Canada)
Stefan Poslad, University of London (England)
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University (UAE)
Harry Chen, Image Matters LLC (USA)
Michael Berger, Siemens (Germany)
Jacob Slonim, Dalhousie Univ. (Canada)
Sastry Duri, IBM T.J. Watson (USA)
Marisa Viveros, IBM Global Services (USA)
Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago (USA)
Yannis Labrou, Fujitsu Laboratories (USA)
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash Univ.(Australia)
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University (USA)

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Last Update: 04/03/2006