(Joint Workshop of the 3rd RTDB (Real-Time Databases) and 2nd DARE (Dependable & Real-Time E-C Systems)) In Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce.

The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society.

The pervasive connectivity of the Internet and the powerful architecture of WWW have created a tremendous opportunity for conducting business on Internet. The terms e-commerce and e-business have been used to describe those systems and technologies that make conducting business on Internet possible. The purpose of this workshop is to identify and to explore the technical issues and solutions for e-commerce. In particular, we are interested in the security and real-time properties of e-commerce and web-based information systems. To our opinion, these topics are one of the most challenging and the most critical for the success of future e-commerce systems. The WECWIS workshop is to be a forum for free exchange of ideas. Particularly welcome are reports on experimental work, experience with current standards and position papers addressing current and future needs of e-commerce systems.

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

• Real-time Internet delivery technology
• Security issues for e-commerce
• Web-based information systems for e-commerce
• Real-time scheduling protocols for Internet activities
• Real-time Java technology
• Design of Internet applications
• QoS support in e-commerce systems
• Data mining techniques for e-commerce systems and WIS
• E-commerce based business models and architectures
• Integration of e-commerce servers with legacy systems

Authors are invited to submit regular papers, reports on work in progress, position papers, as well as proposals for panel discussions. Regular paper submissions should be limited to 10 pages double-spaced, including figures. The title page should include a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, full mailing address, e-mail address, phone numbers, and a designated contact author. Four hard copies or an electronic version (postscript file) of the manuscript should be submitted by November 15, 1998 to:

Professor Sang H. Son
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: +1 (804) 982-2205
Fax: +1 (804) 982-2214
E-mail: son@cs.virginia.edu

• Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 1998
• Notification of Acceptance: January 5, 1999
• Camera Ready Paper Due: February 1, 1999

Work-In-Progress Session
Contributions to a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session are sought. WECWIS'99 WIP will be devoted to the presentation of new and on-going projects in web-based systems and applications. The prime purpose of this session is to provide researchers an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and gather feedback thereon from the community at large. The WIP session will be held on Thursday, April 8, 1999, and will consist of short presentations of all accepted submissions. Also, accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings which will be published by the IEEE-CS. Submissions to WIP should describe original on-going work and should be limited to 3-4 pages.

Please send all WIP submissions via E-mail to Workshop Co-Chair:

Dr. Jen-Yao Chung
E-Mail: jychung@us.ibm.com
Phone: +1-914-784-7762

The deadline for submissions is March 10. 1999.

General Co-Chair
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine

Program Chair
Sang H. Son, University of Virginia

Publicity Co-Chair
Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
K.Y. Lam, City University of Hong Kong

Publication Chair
Ching-Shan Peng, HP

Program Committee
Sanjoy Baruah, University of Vermont
Amit Basu, Vanderbilt University
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Alejandro P. Buchmann, Technical Univ. Darmstadt, Germany
Anindya Datta, Georgia Tech
Patrick Gannon, CommerceNet
Jorgen Hansson, University of Skovde, Sweden
Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tomas Isakowitz, Janney, Montgomery & Scott Inc.
Anant Jhingran, IBM Research
Norihisa Komoda, Osaka University, Japan
T. P. Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Al Mok, University of Texas, Austin
Hsin Pan, IBM
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Kang Shin, University of Michigan
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre
Doug Tygar, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Winston, University of Texas, Austin
Vic Wolfe, University of Rhode Island
Andy Yang, Oracle Corporation