[ecrea] CFP I3E 2008 in Tokyo

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the Eighth IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society
                             (I3E 2008)
                      September 24 - 26, 2008
             National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, JAPAN
                      http://www.i3e2008.org/

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!!!     Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, 17:00 Japan Time (GMT+9 hours)    !!!
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The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society will be held from September 24-26, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Being sponsored by IFIP WG 6.11 in cooperation with TC 11 and TC 8, it will provide a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society applications and in the underlying technology to support these applications.

From submitted papers, thirty papers, including twenty-six for the research track and four for the industrial and administration track, were accepted for presentation at I3E 2008 and publication by Springer Science & Business Media within IFIP series. The accepted papers cover various aspect of sustainable society on ubiquitous networks, including user behavior models, security and trust, P2P, SOA, Web autonomy, legal and ethical issues, societal and cultural issues, and practices on government systems.

[Keynote speeches]
- "Future Outlook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Services"
 by Dr. Takeshi Mizuike, the Vice President and Chief Executive  Director at KDDI R&D Laboratories
- "How salesforce.com Changes Information Technology"
 by Mr. Adam Gross, Vice President of Platform and Developer  Marketing at salesforce.com
- "SOUNDS FROM UTOPIA: Critical Issues of the Web 2.0 Perspective in  the Network Society"
 by Prof. Dr. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk at University of Twente

[Panel sessions]
- "How P2P technology drives e-Society"
 Chair: Dr. Tadao Saito, Prof. Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
 Panelist: Mr. Y. Taniwaki (Ministry of Internal Affairs and  Communications of Japan), Mr. H. Tan (Skype Technologies),  Mr. M. Volpi (Joost), Prof. T. Asami (the University of Tokyo)
- "RFID can create Ubiquitous Network Society?"
 Chair: Prof. Shiro Sakata (Chiba University)
 Panelist: Prof. N. Koshizuka (the University of Tokyo),  Mr. H. Tagato (NEC), Mr. N. Hayashi (Sony), Mr. D. Kimball  (United States Department of Defense)

                               VENUE

The conference venue is the National Center of Sciences in central Tokyo, one of the world?fs largest cities of high technology, commerce, culture, and fashion. The Center is in front of the Emperor's Palace and within 30 minutes of almost all of the highlights of Tokyo, including Akihabara electric town, Tsukiji fish market, the Shogun's garden, and the National Museum.

                            REGISTRATION

Registration to I3E 2008 is possible through the conference Web site:
http://www.i3e2008.org/registration.html.
Registration before August 7th will be discounted.

                         CONFERENCE WEBSITE

For further information, please visit our Web site at http://www.i3e2008.org/ or e-mail (info /at/ i3e2008.org).

                             COMMITTEES

                        Organizing Committee

                      Honorary General Chair:
    Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo,
              Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Japan
                           General Chair:
           Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
                             PC Chair:
         Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan
                           PC Vice Chair:
          Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
                   Local Steering Committee Chair:
                 Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan
                 Local Steering Committee co-Chair:
          Terutoshi Sano, The Association for Promotion of
                  Public Local Information, Japan
                Local Steering Committee Vice Chair:
                Ken Kobayashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
                           Finance Chair:
           Hiroshi Yajima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
                         Finance co-Chair:
         Shigehisa Honma, The Association for Promotion of
                  Public Local Information, Japan
                     Local Arrangements Chair:
       Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
                   Local Arrangements Vice Chair:
                Soichi Furuya, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
                         Publication Chair:
            Chizuko Yasunobu, Hitachi Consulting, Japan
                       Publication Vice Chairs:
      Katsunari Yoshioka, Yokohama National University, Japan
       Nakazato Junji, National Institute of Information and
                  Communications Technology, Japan
                          Publicity Chair:
   Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
                            Panel Chair:
               Shiro Sakata, Chiba University, Japan
                      Orgnized Session Chair:
            Osamu Sudoh, the University of Tokyo, Japan
                              Members:
     Toyoyuki Kobayashi, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan
              Hirokazu Konishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
      Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and
                  Communications Technology, Japan Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
                Local Steering Committee Secretary:
              Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

                           Liaison Chairs
                               IFIP:
      Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
                              Europe:
                Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany
                           North America:
  Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
                           South America:
      Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
                           Asia-Pacific:
     Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

                         Steering Committee
      Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
        Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
          Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland


                          ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I3E2008 will be held in cooperation with Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan and it is partly supported by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
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