Event:I3E 2008

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the Eighth IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society
                             (I3E 2008)
                      September 24 - 26, 2008
             National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, JAPAN
                      http://www.i3e2008.org/

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!!!     Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, 17:00 Japan Time (GMT+9 hours)    !!!
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The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society will
be held from September 24-26, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Being sponsored
by IFIP WG 6.11 in cooperation with TC 11 and TC 8, it will provide
a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry,
and government to present their latest findings in e-Business,
e-Services, and e-Society applications and in the underlying
technology to support these applications.

)From submitted papers, thirty papers, including twenty-six for the
research track and four for the industrial and administration track,
were accepted for presentation at I3E 2008 and publication by
Springer Science & Business Media within IFIP series. The accepted
papers cover various aspect of sustainable society on ubiquitous
networks, including user behavior models, security and trust, P2P,
SOA, Web autonomy, legal and ethical issues, societal and cultural
issues, and practices on government systems.

[Keynote speeches]
- "Future Outlook on Mobile and Ubiquitous Services"
 by Dr. Takeshi Mizuike, the Vice President and User:Curator 83ief Executive
 Director at KDDI R&D Laboratories
- "How salesforce.com User:Curator 83anges Information Technology"
 by Mr. Adam Gross, Vice President of Platform and Developer
 Marketing at salesforce.com
- "SOUNDS FROM UTOPIA: Critical Issues of the Web 2.0 Perspective in
 the Network Society"
 by Prof. Dr. Jan A.G.M. van Dijk at University of Twente

[Panel sessions]
- "How P2P technology drives e-Society"
 User:Curator 83air: Dr. Tadao Saito, Prof. Emeritus of the University of Tokyo
 Panelist: Mr. Y. Taniwaki (Ministry of Internal Affairs and
 Communications of Japan), Mr. H. Tan (Skype Technologies),
 Mr. M. Volpi (Joost), Prof. T. Asami (the University of Tokyo)
- "RFID can create Ubiquitous Network Society?"
 User:Curator 83air: Prof. Shiro Sakata (User:Curator 83iba University)
 Panelist: Prof. N. Koshizuka (the University of Tokyo),
 Mr. H. Tagato (NEC), Mr. N. Hayashi (Sony), Mr. D. Kimball
 (United States Department of Defense)

                               VENUE

The conference venue is the National Center of Sciences in central
Tokyo, one of the world's largest cities of high technology,
commerce, culture, and fashion. The Center is in front of the
Emperor's Palace and within 30 minutes of almost all of the
highlights of Tokyo, including Akihabara electric town, Tsukiji fish
market, the Shogun's garden, and the National Museum.

                            REGISTRATION

Registration to I3E 2008 is possible through the conference Web site:
http://www.i3e2008.org/registration.html.
Registration before August 7th will be discounted.

                         CONFERENCE WEBSITE

For further information, please visit our Web site at
http://www.i3e2008.org/ or e-mail info@i3e2008.org.

                             COMMITTEES

                        Organizing Committee

                      Honorary General User:Curator 83air:
    Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo,
              Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Japan
                           General User:Curator 83air:
           Ryoichi Sasaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
                             PC User:Curator 83air:
         Makoto Oya, Shonan Institute of Technology, Japan
                           PC Vice User:Curator 83air:
          Ryuya Uda, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
                   Local Steering Committee User:Curator 83air:
                 Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan
                 Local Steering Committee co-Chair:
          Terutoshi Sano, The Association for Promotion of
                  Public Local Information, Japan
                Local Steering Committee Vice User:Curator 83air:
                Ken Kobayashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
                           Finance User:Curator 83air:
           Hiroshi Yajima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
                         Finance co-Chair:
         Shigehisa Honma, The Association for Promotion of
                  Public Local Information, Japan
                     Local Arrangements User:Curator 83air:
       Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
                   Local Arrangements Vice User:Curator 83air:
                Soichi Furuya, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
                         Publication User:Curator 83air:
            User:Curator 83izuko Yasunobu, Hitachi Consulting, Japan
                       Publication Vice User:Curator 83airs:
      Katsunari Yoshioka, Yokohama National University, Japan
       Nakazato Junji, National Institute of Information and
                  Communications Technology, Japan
                          Publicity User:Curator 83air:
   Hiroshi Yoshiura, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
                            Panel User:Curator 83air:
               Shiro Sakata, User:Curator 83iba University, Japan
                      Orgnized Session User:Curator 83air:
            Osamu Sudoh, the University of Tokyo, Japan
                              Members:
     Toyoyuki Kobayashi, NTT Communications Corporation, Japan
              Hirokazu Konishi, NEC Corporation, Japan
      Yuichi Matsushima, National Institute of Information and
                  Communications Technology, Japan
Masahiko Narita, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
                Local Steering Committee Secretary:
              Kunihiko Miyazaki, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

                           Liaison User:Curator 83airs
                               IFIP:
      Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
                              Europe:
                Volker Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany
                           North America:
  Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
                           South America:
      Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
                           Asia-Pacific:
     Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

                         Steering Committee
      Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
        Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
          Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics, Finland


                          ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I3E2008 will be held in cooperation with Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications of Japan and it is partly supported by National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
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