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Deadline Extension: April 16, 2012 - CfP for Special Issue on "Electronic Markets and the Future Internet: from Clouds to Semantics"
Guest Editors:
- Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Pedro Soto-Acosta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
- T. Ramayah, School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Meir Russ, University of Wisconsin, USA
Theme
Since the late 1990s, Internet technologies have gained so much
attention and attracted investors and entrepreneurs, who have
revolutionized the economic landscape and how business and transactions
are conducted and processed all over the world. In this sense, business
networking is increasing exponentially and the number of
products/services available online for businesses and consumers are
also growing steadily. A question that arises from the current growth
of electronic markets and business networking is whether and how future
Internet technologies such as the so called Web 2.0, the semantic web
(also named as Web 3.0) and cloud computing will bring new forms of
business value creation activities, new business models or deep changes
in our society.
In the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on social
software applications and services as a result of the rapid development
of the Web 2.0 concepts. These web sites allow knowledge sharing and
the creation of knowledge by the interaction of users via blogs, wikis,
forums and online social networks. However, traditional web sites are
designed to be read by people, not machines. In this sense, the advent
of the Web 3.0 has emerged in the form of new promising tools for
information and data engineering. The Web 3.0 facilitates that
computers can interpret information, so they can perform more of the
tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon
information on the web. In this sense, the Web 3.0 is driving the
evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and
combine information more easily. Still other Internet tools and
services such as cloud computing are arising nowadays. It involves the
delivery of computing (shared resources and software) over the Internet
as a service rather than a product. Cloud computing will surely affect
business networking and a number of new services will be available
online to purchase. Having said all that, the evolving of these Future
Internet technologies will imply however not only the redesign of the
networking infrastructure and its services, but also the way how
businesses, consumers and governments interact electronically. This
profound shift will bring, among others, several challenges and issues
related to security, trust, mobility or scalability. Thus, the research
community must address the challenges, threats and opportunities of
Future Internet technologies and provide solutions and guidance to
current and future managerial, social and legal issues.
This special issue seeks to make a broad inter-disciplinary
contribution to the literature in this area. The objective of this
special issue is to attract high quality manuscripts from both
researchers and practitioners focusing on analyzing whether and how
Future Internet applications might transform today's electronic markets
and business networking practices through, for instance, new forms of
business value creation activities, new business models or through deep
changes in our society.
Other Topics
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Cloud computing business models and pricing policies
- Cloud SLAs
- Cloud economics
- Innovative Cloud Applications business models and Experiences
- Web 2.0 and electronic markets
- Electronic driven Innovation
- Future electronic markets
- Semantic Web and Linked Data economics
- Future Internet and Knowledge Management
- Marketing Social computing
- Enterprise collaboration models enabled by cloud computing and the semantic web
- Customer Relationship Management in the cloud
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special theme section, please contact the editors. Methodological and theoretical pluralism is part of the journals policy. We welcome submissions using qualitative or quantitative methods. We also would like to encourage submissions of interdisciplinary work by authors from different areas. If authors have any questions regarding suitability of their work for this special issue, whether topical or methodological, they should not hesitate to contact (one of) the co-editors.
Submission
Prospective authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to
the guidelines published at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.
All manuscripts that meet the scope of the special theme will be peer
reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets' publication
standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or
theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes,
etc.) is welcome by the journal.
All submissions should be original, not published nor under review
elsewhere.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the special theme, please
contact the guest editors for the special issue.
Please note: All papers must be submitted via our online
submission system. Instructions for submission are available at this
page under Authors » Submission.
Contact addresses
Important deadline
- Submission Deadline: March 26, 2012
Deadline Extension April 16, 2012