IEEE Pacific Rim International Workshop on Electronic Commerce (IEEE-PRIWEC 2006)

March 27 - 28, 2006.

http://www-toralab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/PRIWEC2006/

National Center of Sciences Building, Tokyo, Japan

Sponsored by

IEEE

IEEE Computer Society

Cooperated with

IPSJ (Information Processing Society in Japan) / IPSJ SIG-ICS (Special Interest Group on Intelligence and Complex Systems)

MACC (Special Interest Group on Multi-Agents and Cooperative Computation, Japan Society of Software Science and Technology).

Overview

IEEE-PRIWEC 2006 is the first Pacific Rim workshop on advances in theory, systems, and applications for electronic commerce sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. The increase of Electronic Commerce research activities can be observed in a variety of the fields. Though there have been several workshops on Electronic Commerce, there is little interaction so far among Pacific Rim countries. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring together Pacific Rim researchers with an interest in Electronic Commerce. Unlike conventional conferences, this workshop will mainly discuss and explore scientific and practical problems as raised by the participants. The focus of the workshop will be on computer science, game theory, auction theory, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, WWW, semantic web, etc. In particular, the workshop will bring together researchers from Computer Science and Economics.

The workshop is interdisciplinary in nature, and will address the following topics:

E-Commerce architecture

E-procurement and auctions

Mechanism design

Game theoretic analyses in e-commerce

Intelligent e-commerce system & agents

P2P & its application on e-commerce

Real-time Internet technologies

Scheduling protocols in e-commerce

Security & trust issues in e-commerce

WWW and e-commerce

Web services in e-commerce

Semantic Web and e-commerce

Strategy-proof and Incentive Compatible Mechanisms

Efficient mechanisms for trading

Coordination Mechanisms

Robust Negotiation Mechanisms

Computational mechanism design

Economic and game theoretic design and analysis

Two-sided matching

These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Electronic Commerce. This workshop will bring together researchers in the Asia Pacific area from these communities to learn about each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

IPSJ SIG-ICS

This workshop is going to be held with IPSJ 143th SIG-ICS. Papers that are not accpeted for IEEE-PRIWEC 2006 can be considered as submissions to IPSJ SIG-ICS.

Programs

Totally, 23 papers are submitted and we accepted just the following outstanding presented papers. All presentations have 30 minutes presentations and 10 minutes discussions.

March 27 2006

09:30-
Opening Registration desk

09:45-09:50
Opening address

09:50-11:50(E-Commerce Architecture)
Packaging Web Product Information in XML for Mobile Clients
Jung-Su Hur(Soonchunhyang University),
Sangho Ha(Soonchunhyang University)

Product Ontology and OWL Correspondence
Hyunja Lee(Sookmyung Women's University),
Junho Shim(Sookmyung Women's University)

A framework for comparing e-business and e-government website initiatives: An empirical study in Spain
Pedro Soto-Acosta(Universidad de Murcia),
Angel Merono-Cerdan(Universidad de Murcia)

11:50-13:30
Lunch

13:30-15:30(Auctions)
A Two-Stage Robust Combinatorial Auction Mechanism against False-name Bids
Tokuro Matsuo(Nagoya Institute of Technology),
Takayuki Ito(Harvard University),
Robert Day(University of Connecticut),
Toramatsu Shintani(Nagoya Institute of Technology)

Designing an Auction Protocol for Cases involving Insincere Sellers
Masafumi Matsuda(NTT),
Shigeo Matsubara(NTT)

Cheating in Second Price Auctions with Affiliated Values
Takahiro Watanabe(Tokyo Metropolitan University),
Takehiko Yamato(Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15:30-15:50
Coffee Break

15:50-17:10(WWW and E-commerce)
A Covert Communication Channel for Hidden E-Commerce Data Exhange
Zouheir Trabelsi(United Arab Emirates University),
Zouheir Trabelsi,
Lilia Frikha(SupCom)

Optimizing the Pre-Processing Phase in Automatic e-Document Classification
Ok-ran Jeong(Seoul National University),
Taehee Lee(Seoul National University),
Sang-goo Lee(Seoul National University)

17:30-19:30
Conference Dinner



March 28 2006

10:00-11:00 (Invited talk)
Theory of Internet Auctions
Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University)

Abstract: Internet auctions have become an integral part of Electronic Commerce (EC) and a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies. The Internet provides an excellent infrastructure for executing much cheaper auctions with many more sellers and buyers from all over the world. On the other hand, since Internet auctions are open to the general public, it is important to design auction protocols that provide some theoretical supports for its outcome or robustness against various types of fraud. Studies on designing auction protocols that can achieve socially desirable outcomes have been actively pursued in the field of microeconomics.
In this talk, I give an overview of the theoretical studies on auction protocols, including my research on false-name bids. False-name bids are bids submitted by a single agent under multiple fictitious names (e.g., multiple e-mail addresses). False name bids can be a serious problem in Internet auctions, since identifying each participant on the Internet is virtually impossible.

11:00-11:30
Coffee break and Conference adjournment

Paper Submission

We require on-line submission through IEEE-PRIWEC2006 home page.

Online Submission Page

If you cannot send your paper by online submission systems, please send your paper by e-mail (PRIWEC2006adm@autumn.ics.nitech.ac.jp).

The workshop is soliciting full papers on all aspects of electronic commerce. Submitted papers will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance to electronic commerce, and its relation to prior research.

All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation at the conference. In addition to oral presentations, there will be a poster session at which all accepted papers will be represented.

We require on-line submission through IEEE-PRIWEC2006 home page.

If you cannot send your paper by online submission systems, please send your paper by e-mail (PRIWEC2006ORG@autumn.ics.nitech.ac.jp).

Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers that do not meet this requirement are subject to rejection without review.

Each paper needs to be reviewed by at least two PC members or experts in the field.

Formatting Guidelines

We encourage submission in Springer Lecture Notes Series format. (See the Springer LNCS home page). The length of papers is recommended to be 15 pages long excluding bibliography. However, slightly longer papers may also be accepted.

All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address.

All papers must be submitted in PDF format.

Publication

All accepted papers are going to be published as a book from Springer-Verlag. The post-workshop volume is included in the Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence series.
http://www.springer.com/series/7092/

All accepted papers are going to be included in the Workshop Proceedings (CD-ROM).

Presentation

For a paper to be published, at least one author must attend IEEE-PRIWEC2006 to present it.

Key dates

Paper Submission	:	January 23, 2006.
Notifications	:	February 20, 2006.
Camera-ready copy	:	March 6, 2006
Workshop	:	March 27 - 28, 2006

Workshop Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee

Makoto Yokoo (yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp) (Organizing Chair)

Kyushu University, Japan

Takayuki Ito (itota@ics.nitech.ac.jp) (Program Co-chair)

Nagoya Institute of Tech. Japan/ Harvard University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.

Tokuro Matsuo (tmatsuo@ics.nitech.ac.jp) (Program Co-chair)

Nagoya Institute of Tech., Japan

Minjie Zhang (minjie@uow.edu.au) (Program Co-chair)

Woolongong University, Australia

Juhnyoung Lee (jyl@us.ibm.com) (Program Co-chair)

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Program Committee

Jen-Yao Chung (jychung@us.ibm.com)

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Vivian Ding (dingw@cn.ibm.com)

IBM China Research Lab, China

Sven Doering (doering@forsip.de)

University of Augsburg, Germany

Martin Hepp (mhepp@computer.org)

University of Innsbruck, Austria

Atsushi Iwasaki (iwasaki@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp)

Kyushu University, Japan

Sang-goo Lee (sglee@europa.snu.ac.kr)

Seoul National University, Korea

Thomas Li (thomasli@us.ibm.com)

IBM China Research Lab, China

Kwei-Jay Lin (klin@uci.edu)

University of California, Irvine, USA

Werner Kiessling (kiessling@informatik.uni-augsburg.de)

Institut fur Informatik, Germany

Shigeo Matsubara (matsubara@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)

NTT Communication Science Laboratory, Japan

Yuriko Sawatani (yuriko@jp.ibm.com)

IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan

Junho Shim (jshim@sookmyung.ac.kr)

Sookmyung Women's University, Korea

Takahiro Watanabe (forward0@nabenavi.net)

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Hirofumi Yamaki (yamaki@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

Kyoto University, Japan