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Latest E-business Developments & Technologies to be discussed in HK at the Second Int

24 Apr 2001

Over 80 leading experts from the academic, business, technology and government sectors worldwide will assemble in Hong Kong to share their insights on the newest e-business developments and technologies at the Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC), to be held from April 26 to 28 at the Hong Kong Productivity Council Building, Kowloon Tong.

Organized by the E-Business Technology Institute (ETI) of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Symposium is composed of a series of keynote and plenary speeches by renowned experts, presentations of referred papers, tutorials and workshops covering the hottest e-commerce topics, including:
‧latest models of e-business deployment in the business and public sectors
‧electronic marketplace
‧cryptography, security and secure payment
‧intelligent web agents
‧data exchange, enterprise data mining and customer relationship management
‧e-commerce education
‧e-commerce architecture and solutions
‧performance and quality of service (QoS)

Professor C J Tan, director of ETI, said, "ISEC is a major annual event for researchers, software vendors, application developers and business users all over the world to share information about current important research and application issues concerning electronic business. We are proud to host this event to facilitate the exchange of insights among world leaders in their respective fields. We are also excited at exposing the local academic, industry and business communities to the forefront of e-commerce technologies and applications."

Keynote and plenary speakers of the Symposium include Tony Tai, marketing director of IBM Greater China Group, Peter Ferguson, director of Electronic Commerce Branch, Industry Canada, Dr Carolyn H Norton, member of IBM Academy, Joseph Poon, founder and CEO of SAR1 Innovations Ltd., and Dr Leo Liu, senior manager of IBM's Data Warehouse Development, Customer Information Engine.


The event is sponsored by IBM China/Hong Kong Limited, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Hong Kong Productivity Council and SAR1 Innovations Ltd. It is also supported by ICO Limited, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems of HKU, Institute of Global Electronic Commerce of The University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Hong Kong Computer Society.

For more information, please call at 2857-8452

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Notes to Editors

E-Business Technology Institute, which was set up by The University of Hong Kong and IBM China/ Hong Kong Limited in September 1999, is an independently funded research and development institute within the university. It aims to foster the overall development of Hong Kong and China in the networked economy through basic research in e-business technology and policy issues, development of e-business applications that cater to specific requirements of Hong Kong and China, transfer of technologies and building up of a pool of local e-business technology professionals.

Media Contact

Dr Weidong Kou
E-Business Technology Institute, HKU
Tel: (852) 2859-2189
Fax: (852) 2549-7908

Polo Leung
HKU External Relations Office
Tel: (852) 2859-2600
Fax: (852) 2858-4986

Catherine Lo, Communications Manager
IBM China/Hong Kong Ltd
Tel: (852) 2825-0027
Fax: (852) 2537-6601

Attachment: ISEC2001 Symposium Program

April 26, 2001

TutorialsTime: 9:00AM-Noon
Venue: 1st Floor, HKPC Bldg
1. e-Marketplace, Drs. Jih-Shry Yih and Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research, USA (Classroom #4)
2. Cryptography, Security and Secure Payments, Dr. Gordon Agnew, University of Waterloo, Canada (Classroom #2)
3. Intelligent Web Agents, Dr. Jiming Liu, Baptist University of Hong Kong (Classroom #3)
4. Enterprise Data Mining and CRM, Dr. Joshua Huang, HKU
(Classroom #5)

Noon-1:30PM
Lunch

Opening Session
Time: 1:30-4:30PM
Venue: The Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor, HKPC Bldg
1. Opening: Profs. Weidong Kou and Yelena Yesha, General Co-Chairs,ISEC2001
2. Welcome Speech: Prof. CJ Tan, Director, E-Business Technology Institute, HKU
3. Keynote Speech: Braving the Next Generation of e-BusinessTony Tai, Marketing Director of IBM Greater China Group
4. Plenary Speech: Electronic Commerce and the New Networked EconomyPeter Ferguson, Director, Electronic Commerce Branch, Industry Canada
5. Plenary Speech: Olympics and WebSphereCarolyn H Norton, Member of IBM Academy, USA

Conference Banquet
Time: 6:00-8:30PM
Venue: American Club, 47th Floor, Two Exchange Square
Transportation will be provided from HKPC to American club
Entertainment Program (to be confirmed)

April 27, 2001

Invited Speech
Time: 9:00-9:45AM
Venue: The Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor, HKPC Bldg
Speaker: Mr. Joseph Poon, Founder and CEO, SAR1 Innovations Ltd

Plenary Paper Session
Time: 10:00AM-Noon
Venue: The Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor, HKPC Bldg
Chair: Prof. Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
1. An Efficient Multiple Merchants Payment Protocol for Secure Electronic Transactions based on Purchase Consolidation by Oda Sans and Gordon Agnew
2. Online Auction Protocols: A Comparative Study by Carsten Passch, William Song, Weidong Kou, and Chung Jen Tan
3. An Extensible, Human-centric Framework that Promotes Universal Access to Electronic Commerce by Jacob Slonim, Theodore Chiasson, Carrie Gates, and Michael McAllister
4. Internet Based Electronic Business Framework Applications and Business to Business Standards by Deren Chen and Jen-Yao Chung

Noon-1:30PM
Lunch

Afternoon Paper Session 1
Time: 1:30-4:30PM
Venue: 1st Floor, Classroom #2, HKPC Bldg
e-Commerce Framework, Tools, Systems, Performance and QoS

Chair: Prof. Johnny Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada
(to be confirmed)
1. Active Page Generation via Customizing XML for Data Beans In E-Commerce Applications by Li Chen, Elke Rundensteiner, Afshan Ally, Rice Chen, and Weidong Kou
2. I-Cube: A Tool-set for the Dynamic Extraction and Integration of Web Data Content by Frankie Poon and Kostas Kontogiannis
3. CBR-Responder, An Automated Customer Service for E-Commerce by Yao Hui Lei, Gang Mai, and Esma Aimeur
4. Introducing QoS to Electronic Commerce Applications by Gregor v. Bochmann, Brigitee Kerherve, Hanan Lutfiyya, Mohamed M. Salem, and Haiwei Ye
5. A Methodology and Implementation for Analytic Modeling in Electronic Commerce Applications by H. Keith Edwards, Michael A. Bauer, Hanan Lutfiyya, Yumman Chan, Michael Shields, and Peter Woo

Afternoon Paper Session 2
Time: 1:30-4:30PM
Venue: 1st Floor, Classroom #3, HKPC Bldg
Security, Trust, and Secure Payment

Prof. Jacob Slonim, Delhousie University, Canada (to be confirmed)
1. A Fair Electronic Cash Scheme by Yi Mu, Khanh Quoc Ngugen, and Vijay Varadharajan
2. Building Trust for E-commerce: Collaborating Label Bureaus by Michael Shepherd, Anil Dhonde, and Carolyn Watte
3. Group-oriented (t,n) Threshold Digital Signature Scheme with Traceable Signers by Zi-Chen Li, Jun-Mei Zhang, Jun Luo, William Song, and Yi-Qi Dai
4. A Secure Payment Protocol Using Mobile Agents in an Untrusted Host Environment by Amitabha Das and Yao Gongxuan
5. The Implementation of Security Algorithm of Mobile Agent on Roblet by YingJie Yang, Liang Zhu, and Fan Yuan Ma

April 28, 2001

Invited Speech
Time: 9:00-9:45AM
Venue: Theatre, 1st Floor, HKPC Bldg
Speaker: Dr. Leo Liu, IBM US, Senior Manager Data Warehouse Development, Customer Information Engine

Morning Workshops
Time: 9:45AM-Noon
Venue: 1st Floor, Classrooms, HKPC Bldg, HKPC Bldg

1. E-Commerce Education,
Chair: Dr. Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie University, Canada
Speakers: Dr. Terence (Terry) C. Lau, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
Dr. Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie University, Canada
Prof. Doug Vogel, City University, HK (Classroom #2)
2. Intelligent Agents for e-Commerce,
Chair: Dr. Jiming Liu, Baptist University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Fan Yuan Ma, Shanghai Jaotong University, China
Jiming Liu, Baptist University, Hong Kong
Samual P. M. Choi, City University of Hong Kong
Prof. Sim, City University of Hong Kong
K. W. Mak, Modem Terminal Limited, HK (Classroom #3)
3. Security and Secure Payment,
Co-Chairs: Dr. Gordon Agnew, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Lucas Hui, University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Chris Fader, University of Waterloo, Canada
Oda Sans, Germany
Lucas Hui, Univ. of Hong Kong
Amir Herzberg (or Verena Siow), NewGenPay Inc, Israel
(Classroom #7)

Noon-1:30PM
Lunch

Afternoon Workshops
Time: 1:30-4:30PM
Venue: 1st Floor, Classrooms, HKPC Bldg

1. E-Commerce Architecture and Solutions
Chair: Dr. Frank Tong, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: John Tan and Yong King Teo, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
Badri Narayan, University of Madras
S. Wang, Taiwan
Zhang Ling, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Dr. Qu Yuzhong, Southern East University, China
Bill Tse, iSwitch (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong
(Classroom #2)
2. Data Exchange and Data Mining for e-Commerce
Chair: Dr. Joshua Huang, University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Anna Lin, Hong Kong Article Numbering Association
David Cheung, The University of Hong Kong
Paul H. Wong, ecVision Ltd
Aoyin Zhou, Fudan University
Remin Shen, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Joshua Huang, The University of Hong Kong
(Classroom #3)
3. Performance and QoSCo-Chairs:
Dr. Gregor v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Speakers:
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Johnny W. Wong and Ellen Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Haiwei Ye (University of Montreal) and Brigitte
Kerherve(UQAM), Canada
Dwight Makaroff, University of Ottawa, Canada
Samuel T. Chanson, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Terence (Terry) C. Lau, CAS, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
(Classroom #7)