2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business

Call For Papers

We are pleased to announce that the annual World Congress on the Management of e-Business conference organized by McMaster University’s eBusiness Research Centre (MeRC) and the annual Privacy, Security and Trust conference (PST) organized by the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT) are coming together in 2009. This joint event will operate as the 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business and the conference will take place August 25 – 27, 2009, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

By combining forces we are able to offer attendees a much richer experience for a single registration fee. The 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business will include workshops, tutorials, panel discussions, keynote speakers, research papers, a graduate student symposium, a public safety / critical infrastructure summit and social events.

The 9th Annual World Congress on the Management of eBusiness provides a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to come together to present, discuss and review recent, ground-breaking research results on the deployment and use of information technologies and services for eBusiness. This conference promises to inform eBusiness practice, establish research directions, and facilitate future research collaborations. This conference would be of high interest and relevance to researchers interested in disseminating eBusiness research results and to companies seeking to advance their business agendas through professional research. Special themed tracks for the Congress include: eHealth, HCI, eInnovation and eGovernment.

The 7th Annual Privacy, Security and Trust Conference provides a forum for researchers world-wide to report on their latest research and engage in meaningful discussions and networking. PST 2009 will once again be held in cooperation with the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy. The conference is also affiliated with the IFIP Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems – Working Group 11.11 on Trust Management. Special themed tracks for the Conference include: privacy, security and trust.

Paper Submission:

High-quality papers not under review or previously accepted or published elsewhere are solicited. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. Paper submissions should be in the IEEE format, with the first page bearing authors’ affiliations, names and contact details. Accepted papers will be published in joint proceedings by IEEE in hard copy and online. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB).

Submissions are encouraged as long papers (8-12 pages), short papers (4-5 pages).

Formatting Instructions:
8.5" x 11" (DOC, PDF, LaTex Formatting Macros )

The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 15th, 2009.