CfP: Focus Theme Section on 'Strategies and Technologies for Web-Based Information Services' (20-1)

Guest Editors of the focus theme section:

• Axel Hochstein (Stanford University, USA),
• Jian Chen (Tsinghua University, China),
• P.K. Kannan (University of Maryland, USA).

Supporting Associate Editor of the focus theme section:

• Xiaona Zheng (Beijing University, China).

Triggered by the increasing number of internet users, the growing digitalization of physical information, and the web 2.0 phenomenons, in recent years more and more data is becoming available on the web. RFID is used to digitalize information from the physical world, organizations (especially e-commerce providers) open their databases to the public via web services, and internet users enter a variety of personal and non-personal information. By combining this data via mash-ups or composed services, value is added and more complex, individualized, or richer information is generated. Additionally, integration and composition of information services by adding semantics are current challenges within research.

In this growing data market, further research has also to be done on typical market structures, the players of the data market (user, intermediates, supplier et cetera), their interactions, their business models, their strategies as well as other inter- and intra-organizational questions, that are relevant for an efficient production, vending, and usage of web-based information services.

Potential topics and research questions that this focus theme section would address include but are not limited to:

Technologies for Web-Based Information Services

• Planning and composition of web-based information services
• Engineering of web-based information services
• Discovery of web-based information services
• Quality of web-based information services
• Semantics for web-based information services
• Rules for web-based information services
• Data mining technologies for web-based information services

Strategies and Markets for Web-Based Information Services

• Business models for web-based information services
• Players of the web-based information service market
• Structures of the web-based information services market
• Web-based information services within enterprises
• Controlling for web-based information services
• Pricing for web-based information services
• Information service registries and their business model
• Marketing for web-based information services

Additional topic suggestions are welcome. All papers 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 …) is welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by 14. June 2009. All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.

Contact address: axel.hochstein@cs.stanford.edu or editors@electronicmarkets.org

Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 14. June 2009
• Acceptance decision: 15. August 2009
• Issue: Vol. 20, No. 1, February 2010