Designing E-Business Systems. Markets, Services, and Networks

The 7th Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2008) was held on December 13, 2008, in Paris. As a pre-ICIS workshop, it provided an open forum for e-business - searchersandpractitionerstoshareresearch?ndings,explorenovelideas,discuss success stories and lessons learned, and map out major challenges with regard to the design of e-business systems. The workshop theme was “Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks.” With WeB 2008 having been located in Europe, we wanted to highlight the increasing importance of the design science approach for infor- tionsystemsresearch,which hasa longtraditionin theEuropeanIS community. We received a large number of submissions that addressed key issues speci?c to the workshop theme as well as e-business in general. Based on a rigorous review process, a total of 31 full papers and 30 research-in-progresspapers were accepted for presentation at the workshop, covering a broad range of technical, empirical, managerial,and economic aspects of e-business. Of the 31 full papers, 17 selected papers are contained in this volume of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. We hope that you will ?nd them an interesting read and that you will bene?t from the authors’ ?ne contributions.

The 7th Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2008) was held on December 13, 2008, in Paris. As a pre-ICIS workshop, it provided an open forum for e-business - searchersandpractitionerstoshareresearch?ndings,explorenovelideas,discuss success stories and lessons learned, and map out major challenges with regard to the design of e-business systems. The workshop theme was “Designing e-Business Systems: Markets, Services and Networks.” With WeB 2008 having been located in Europe, we wanted to highlight the increasing importance of the design science approach for infor- tionsystemsresearch,which hasa longtraditionin theEuropeanIS community. We received a large number of submissions that addressed key issues speci?c to the workshop theme as well as e-business in general. Based on a rigorous review process, a total of 31 full papers and 30 research-in-progresspapers were accepted for presentation at the workshop, covering a broad range of technical, empirical, managerial,and economic aspects of e-business. Of the 31 full papers, 17 selected papers are contained in this volume of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. We hope that you will ?nd them an interesting read and that you will bene?t from the authors’ ?ne contributions.

Electronic Markets.- IDEM: A Prediction Market for Idea Management.- Understanding Dynamic Competitive Technology Diffusion in Electronic Markets.- Electronic Services.- Examining Agencies’ Satisfaction with Electronic Record Management Systems in e-Government: A Large-Scale Survey Study.- Practical Security of Large-Scale Elections: An Exploratory Case Study of Internet Voting in Estonia.- Situational Effects on the Usage Intention of Mobile Games.- Radio Frequency Identification.- Modelling and Simulation of National Electronic Product Code Network Demonstrator Project.- Benefit Analyses of Technologies for Automatic Identification to Be Implemented in the Healthcare Sector.- Service-oriented Architectures.- An Exploratory Study of Risk Factors for Implementing Service-Oriented IS Projects.- Cloud-Based DSS and Availability Context: The Probability of Successful Decision Outcomes.- Do Clouds Compute? A Framework for Estimating the Value of Cloud Computing.- Virtual Communities.- Analyzing Members’ Motivations to Participate in Role-Playing and Self-Expression Based Virtual Communities.- Evolution of Virtual Communities.- The Future of Professional Communities of Practice.- Web Intelligence.- A Feature-Reinforcement–Based Approach for Supporting Poly-Lingual Category Integration.- On Logic and Standards for Structuring Documents.- Patent Analysis for Supporting Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Prediction: A Data Mining Approach.- Use of Ontology to Support Concept-Based Text Categorization.