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.