Project E-Society: Building Bricks 6th IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government (I3E 2006), October 11-13, 2006, Turku, Finland

13E 2006, the 6th in this series of IFIP conferences, marked the congregation of researchers and practitioners in the areas of e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government. The conference was sponsored by IFIP TC 6 in cooperation with TC 8 and TC 11.

The conference provided a forum for researchers, engineers and interested users in academia, industry, and government to discuss the latest research, cutting-edge practice and upcoming trends in the growing areas of e-Commerce, e-Business, and particularly e-Government. Sophisticated applications as well as the underlying technology that supports such applications were discussed and demonstrated. The conference attracted a wide range of participants representing a significant community of researchers and practitioners from a broad range of countries.

The conference was organized along parallel tracks, each track focusing on specific aspects of current research, industry applications, and public administration.

Research track.- Identity and Access Management for Remote Maintenance Services in Business Networks.- Elderly People and Emerging Threats of the Internet and New Media.- Biometric access control for athletic events.- An Analysis of Plug and Play Business Software.- Application of Electronic Currency on the Online Payment System like PayPal.- Architecture of an ERP System Supporting Project-Oriented Management.- Inter-organizational information systems in cooperative inter-organizational relationships: Study of the factors influencing to success.- The Management of Financial Supply Chains: From Adversarial to Co-operative Strategies.- Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network.- Understanding the B2B E-Market in China.- Personalization Beyond Recommender Systems.- Multidisciplinary models and guidelines for eProcurement projects: the eReadiness phase.- The Adoption of RFID-based Self-Check-Out-Systems at the Point-of-Sale.- Application of Text Mining into Auto Answering System and Improvement of Mining Performance.- Who should take care of the personalization?.- Methodology for IT Governance Assessment and Design.- The E-Government: A Jigsaw View.- TAM Derived Construct of Perceived Customer Value and Online Purchase Behavior: An Empirical Exploration.- P2P Users: Important dimensions for changing to legal online music stores.- Users’ Benefit and Provider’s Revenue of Content Delivery Services with Priority Control.- Business Model Scenarios for Remote Management.- Electronic Activity Interchange EAI — a new way of B2B cooperation.- Modelling Value-based Inter-Organizational Controls in Healthcare Regulations.- Extending Traditional Wiki Systems with Geographical Content.- Integrated Search Based on Image Contents.- An Empirical Study onBusiness-to- Government Data Exchange Strategies to Reduce the Administrative Costs for Businesses.- Internet Services for the underprivileged.- Combining Critical Success Factors and Life Cycle Model to Enable Evaluation of e-business models.- A Secure e-Ordering Web Service.- “Liquid” Electronic Marketplaces.- Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’.- Looking into the future: scenarios for e-government in 2020.- Analyzing Strategic Gaps of Digital Divide Projects Based on the Balanced Scorecard.- Development of the GEA within the G-to-G system of the Iranian e-government: Views, experiences, and visions.- Industrial and administration track.- Some critical factors in Local e-Government: the case of Lombardy.