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 2009 Networking and
Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2009), 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. The Global Economy is currently driven by the following
factors: The International Financial Crises, Emerging Business Oriented
Innovations, New Models of Intellectual Property Rights, and Accelerating
Progress of Information Communication Technologies. These changes created new
Techno-Economic business opportunities, supported by the new e-commerce with
its wide scale growth and impact. This will be one of the central topics
of the 2009 NEAC Conference.
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 e-mailing address:
Professor Bezalel Gavish, Southern
Methodist University, 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