International Workshop on Advanced Issues of
E-Commerce and Web-based Information
Systems (WECWIS'99) Santa Clara,
California, April 8-9, 1999

(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.



Day 1 (April 8, Thursday)

    8:15 Openning Remarks

    8:30 - 9:30 Keynote: Stuart Feldman, IBM

    10:00 - 12:00 Session I. Real-Time Issues in E-Commerce and WIS

    • A Real-Time Protocol for Stock Market Transactions
      S. Subramanian and M. Singhal, Ohio State University, USA

    • Data Broadcast for Time-Constrained Read-Only Transactions in Mobile Computing Systems
      Kam-yiu Lam, E. Chan, and C. Yuen
      City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    • Mirror: A State-conscious Concurrency Control Protocol for Replicated Real-Time Databases
      Ming Xiong, K. Ramamritham, J. Haritsa, J. Stankovic
      Univ. of Massachusetts, USA

    • A Real-Time Monitoring System for Financial Transactions
      Q. Zhong and H. Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China

    12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

    1:30 - 3:30 Session II. Web-based Business Models and Architectures

    • A Quantitative Analysis of the Behavior of a Large Non-English E-Broker
      V. Almeida, W. Meira Jr., V. Ribeiro, N. Ziviani,
      Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

    • Proposal of Application Architecture in E-Commerce Service between Companies
      M. Mori, H. Tsuru, R. Itsuki, H. Yajima,
      Hitachi, Japan

    • Customization Rule Generation for Electronic Sales Promotion System in Wholesale Industry
      M. Yumoto, K. Oh, N. Komoda, T. Mori, Osaka University, Japan

    • Business-to-Business E-Commerce with Open Buying on the Internet
      L. Liu, J. Tian, J. Li, J. Chung, IBM China Research Lab, China

    4:00 - 6:30 Work-in-Progress/Industrial Session

      Chair: Jen Yao Chung

    7:00 Banquet

 

Day 2 (April 9, Friday)

    8:30 - 10:00 Session III. New Approaches and Infrastructures

    • A Component-Oriented Approach For Enterprise-Devoted E-Commerce
      M. Abolhassani and G. Szentivanyi
      Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    • An Advanced Multimedia Infrastructure for WWW-based Information Systems
      F. Rousseau and A. Duda, Open Group Research Institute, France

    • Active and Real-Time Functionalities for Electronic Brokerage Design
      M. Beck, P. Konana, G. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Mok,
      University of Texas at Austin, USA

    • The Evolution of Business-to-Business Commerce Systems: The Influence of New Information Technology Models
      Jim Senn, Georgia State University, USA

    10:30 - 12:30 Session IV. Invited Papers

    • A Conceptual Annotation Approach to Indexing in a Web-based Information System
      E. Bertino, B. Catania, G. Zarri, University of Milan, Italy

    • Customization in Online Trade Processes
      A. Basu and S. Muylle, Vanderbilt University, USA

    • The Effect of Bargaining in Electronic Commerce
      T.-P. Liang and H.-S. Doong, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

    12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

    2:00 - 3:00 Session VII. Metadata and Security

    • Semantic Metadata for the Integration of Web-based Data for E-Commerce
      Christof Bornhovd, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

    • Towards a scalable PKI for E-commerce systems
      C. Wang and W. Wulf, University of Virginia, USA

    3:30 - 5:00 Panel

    5:00 Closing Remarks