Networking has been the fundamental technology
fostering the development of the web and electronic commerce. Over the past few
years, electronic commerce has
emerged as a dramatic new model of conducting business. Advances in networking,
automated processes, decision technologies, economics, and management are
already forcing dramatic changes in a variety of industries, ranging from
banking and finance to music and entertainment. Yet, the electronic business
space is still in a relatively early state of evolution, and many of the
significant advances in understanding the interaction between the two fields
and their impact on the implementation of e-commerce are occurring in academia
and industry. Thus, a dialogue on the interaction between the two fields and
between academia and industry is important. As electronic business spans a wide
range of reference disciplines, forums focusing on networking and e-commerce
research are vital to stimulate the necessary interactions and knowledge
sharing across this broad community.
The 2008
Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2008), follows the
successful NAEC conferences which were held in the same location.
NAEC
conferences bring together academic and industrial researchers from various
fields on an ongoing, annual basis to discuss developments and challenges of
networking and electronic business understood in the largest possible sense of
the term. The aim of the conference is to provide a high quality forum for the
presentation of results, exchange of ideas, and scientific discussions on
challenges, methodologies, new technologies and their impact, computational and
deployment issues, policies and advanced applications in the area of networking
and e-business. Our goal is to open the conference to participants from all
fields, in particular, telecommunications, computer science, management
sciences, and operations research, economy, legal and policy studies. The
conference will combine technical presentations grouped in research sessions,
with industry and research plenary speakers, as well as industry-lead panels.
Papers submitted for presentation at the
conference will be refereed and selected based on the full paper (15 to 35
pages) or an extended abstract (
Paper mailing address:
Professor Bezalel Gavish, Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA, gavishb2000@yahoo.com.
Tel: (214) 750-8474.
Professor Bezalel Gavish
Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin
Distinguished Chair in Business
Southern
Dallas, TX 75275-0333
E-mail: gavishb2000@yahoo.com