Scope
Extended version of
                      accepted papers will be published in
                      a special issue of an international journal (EI
                      Indexed).
                
The rapid
                expansion of business relationships and processes
                involved led to the emerging standards and
                infrastructure for business collaborations. Business
                large or small can no longer survive alone. The
                efficient and effective links with the business partners
                and consumers become critical. Overall, the
                collaborations occur between the communities of buyers,
                i.e. service consumers and sellers, i.e. service
                providers.
As much of
                the competition occurs between services providers and
                services consumers along the e-business value chains,
                the main theme of IWCBS is on collaborative e-business
                systems through aspects of business-IT alignment,
                business process integration, mobility, technology and
                tools, platforms and architectures, and applications. 
              
                  The workshop attempts to address the resources
                  planning, modelling, coordination and integration in
                  order to develop long-term sustainable and beneficial
                  business relationships among all the partners and
                  consumers along the value chains. Development of
                  well-cooperated and coordinated e-business environment
                  is crucial. Information technology has significant
                  roles in supporting more competitive collaborative and
                  integrated e-business systems. For business
                  stakeholders, the long-term sustainability and
                  efficiency are to be increasingly important. Indeed,
                  to appropriately address the balance between the
                  community of buyers and sellers through collaboration
                  and support is becoming urgent. The technology trend
                  of supply chain management and logistics is heading
                  towards all aspects of the integration, coordination
                  and intelligent use of the network based resources. In
                  practical deployment of the solutions, mobility and
                  hand held devices are to be involved.  
                
 e-Business2018 -The FOURTH
                               INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
                            ON
e-Business2018 -The FOURTH
                               INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
                            ON