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e-Business: how far have we come?

Background

The 7th International We-B (Working For E-Business) Conference 2006 (We-B) will be held on Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th November and Friday, 1st December 2006 at Victoria University's City Flinders Campus, Level 9, 300 Flinders Street, Victoria, Australia.

Hosted for its first five years by the We-B Centre and the School of MIS at Edith Cowan, this year the conference will be held in Victoria for the second time. We-B 2006 aims to provide an opportunity for sharing and networking among academics, community and industry specialists in e-Business and related fields.


Acceptances

Accepted submissions for presentation at the conference


7th International We-B (Working For E-Business) Conference

e-Business: how far have we come?

Proceedings - ISBN: 178-1-86272-670-3


Program
Victoria University 
Level 9
300 Flinders Street, Melbourne

Wednesday, 29 November
6pm             Registration and Welcome Reception
7pm             

Thursday, 30 November  
8.30am Registration
9.30am Conference Opening: 
Professor Colin Clarke
Executive Dean, Business and Law
Victoria University

Keynote Address:
Major Rolf Zimmerman
SMS Consulting
DoD trades electronically with industry using open ecommerce standards: Open standard internet based purchase order from DoD to industry
10.30am             Morning Tea
11.00am Contributed Concurrent Session - SMEs
11.00am The use of Information Communication Technology in Collaborative Business Relations
Helen Cripps, Shirley Bode

Edith Cowen University
11.30am The Role of the Internet in Building capacity: Small Business and Comminity Based Organisations
Stergios Karanasios, Carmine Sellitto, Stephen Burgess, Graeme Johnson, Don Schauder and Tom Denison 
Victoria University
12.00 Noon Factors Influencing the Adoption of Online Advertising in SMEs: An Australian Study
Jun Xu, Jan Heiligtag
 
Southern Cross University
11.00am Contributed Concurrent Session  
An Assessment of Privacy Protection in E-commerce Sites
Ildemaro Araujo
11.30am Good Things Come in Packages of (at least) Three: A Contribution to Enhancing E-Business Safety
Christopher Lueg, Omer Mahmood 
University of Tasmania
12.00 Noon Business Security Management for Australian Small SMEs - A case Study
Damien Hutchinson, Matthew Warren
 
Deakin University
12.30pm Lunch               
2.00pm  Contributed Concurrent Session - SMEs
Modelling the Metrics of Supply Chain Performance: A BCS and ANP-based Approach
Byunghak Leem
, K.J. Rogers
Pusan University of Foreign Studies, University of Texas at Arlington 
2.30pm Design Science Model and Method Artifacts for Converging Knowledge of Electronic and Physical Communities
Arthur Willson

University of Western Australia
3.00pm Online Advertising in Australian SMEs: Result of a National Survey
Jun Xu, Jan Heiligtag
Southern Cross University
2.00pm Contributed Concurrent Session - A Variety of eBusiness Topics
2.00pm Autoellic Personality and Perceived Playfulness in the Context of Mobile Information and Entertainment Services
Jacky P C Chou, Felix Tan
AUT University
2.30pm Solution-Focused Management of Planned IT Outages
Katherine O'Callaghan, Sugumar Marippanadar
Australian Catholic University
3.00pm Creative Commons for eLinks: Considering Some of the Negatives
Darren Skidmore
 
The University of Melbourne
3.30pm Afternoon tea
4.00pm Contributed Concurrent Session - Customer Relationship Management
Channel Specific Consequences of Customer Loyalty in Information Search Behaviour
Natalie Jaggi, Alexander Zaugg

University of Bern
4.30pm An Experiment on Recmmender Systems for SME Online Shops
Daniel Risch, Nicholas Werro, Henrick Stormer

University of Fribourg
4.00pm Contributed Concurrent Session - Website Usage Models         

Adaptive Web Navigation Construction: A Machine Learning Approach
Yinjun Gu, Xiaoying Kong, David Lowe

University of Technology, Sydney
4.30pm Testing a Model of Website Success: A Study of Indonesian SMEs
Jun Xu, Vera Pujani
 
Southern Cross University
7.00pm  Conference Dinner 
629 Bourke Street
Melbourne
(located between King and Spencer Street) 

Friday, 1 December
 
8.30am Registration open
9.30am  Contributed Concurrent Session - Outsourcing and IT in Business 
9.30am The Need to Negotiate and Govern Technology Outsourcing Agreements
Subha Chandar, John Zeleznikow

Victoria University
10.00am Challenges, Issues and the Role of the Government in the ASP Market
Jungsub Lee, Joungwon Yoo
National Computerization Agency
9.30am Contributed Concurrent Session - E-Learning/Education
9.30am A User-Centred Personalised e-Learning System
Vanessa Chang, Thao Nguyen

Curtin University of Technology
10.00am Application of Fuzzy Logic Clustering in the Web-Based Intelligent Education System
Zahra Taeb, M Analoui
Iran University of Science & Technology
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am   Contributed Concurrent Session - eGovernment
11.00am ITIL and e-Government: A Case Study on Dubai e-Government Services
Mihyar Hesson, Okan Geray
  
Al Ain University of Science and Technology
11.30am Inter-Organizational Collaboration in a Government-Sponsored e-Commerce Adoption and Diffusion Program
Michael McGrath, Elizabeth More
 
Victoria University
12.00Noon Your Dreaming: The next stage towards joined up Government in Australia
Peter Shackleton

Victoria University
11.00am Contributed Concurrent Session - SMEs
11.00am The Design Rationale of the Australian Small to Medium Enterprise E-Business Security Methodology (ASME-EBSM)
Damien Hutchinson, Matthew Warren
Deakin University
11.30am Small Australian Wineries: An Evaluation of Web Site Uses and Usability
Ann Monday

University of South Australia
12.00Noon Airline Customer-Centric E-Business (CCEB) System Meta Model
Hongwei Jiang, Shui Yu, Zhongwen Li, David X Qian

RMIT University
12.30pm  Lunch             
2.00pm Contributed Concurrent Session
2.00pm Issues of Long Term Information Preservation in the AEC Sector
Refad Bader, Yogesh Deshpande

University of Western Sydney
2.30pm Defining the Levels of Strategic, Tactical and Operational Use for an Organisation
Darren Skidmore
The University of Melbourne
3.00pm Decision Support for the Profiling Potential Terrorist Behaviour
Mary Glavic, John Zeleznikow
Victoria University
2.00pm Contributed Concurrent Session - ECommerce in Developing Countries
2.00pm E-Government Adoption and Diffusion in Less-Developed Nations: Lessons from the West
Hafedh Al-Shihi, Michael McGrath
 
Victoria University
2.30pm A Case Study of SMEs Implementation of E-Commerce in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Nittaya Jariangprasert, Patchara Tantipraspa, Kemakorn Chaiprasit, Knongphu Nimanandh

Chiangmai University
3.00pm Electronic Government Development in China
Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoying Kong, David Lowe

University of Technology, Sydney
3.30pm  Conference close

Contact Information

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03 9919 7249
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Sunshine Campus
PO Box 14428
Melbourne 8001
Electronic mail
General Information: conferences@vu.edu.au