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WHICEB 2024: The 23rd Wuhan International Conference on E-business
Wuhan, China, May 24-26, 2024
Conference websitehttp://whiceb.cug.edu.cn
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=whiceb2024
Submission deadlineFebruary 1, 2024

The Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB) series is an Association for Information Systems (AIS) affiliated conference that has been held successfully since the year 2000, serving as an annual academic conference for the improvement and development of global e-business research, academic exchange, and cooperation. In the coming year of 2024, we will be holding the 23rd conference with the topic of 'New challenges and opportunities for digital-enabled intelligent future'.

Big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain Technology (namely the ABCD Technology) are stimulating a new round of business innovation in the fields of manufacturing, business, education, and personal life. The combination of digitization and intelligentization has created a new growth mode in the digital economy. New businesses and new rules have emerged and the application scenarios of “Internet Plus” are redefined. The enterprises are facing the opportunity to reconstruct a new business model bottom up. Facing the new digital and intelligentized trend, from product or business innovation to organizational and industrial change, many enterprises are actively practicing and providing a large number of new research problems for academic research.

Venue

The conference which will be held from May 24 to 26, 2024, will stimulate the vigorous development of academic research and enterprise practices by bringing together E-business, information technology in digitalized and intelligentized situations, and new ideas and discoveries in service, marketing, and operation management reform. Scholars in e-commerce, information systems, marketing, strategic management, and public management at home or abroad are welcome to participate in the conference. The annual conference aims to show innovative scientific research results in the business and economic fields enabled by artificial intelligence, promote interdisciplinary research findings, and share the experiences of different countries and regions. English will be the formal language at the conference. World-class scholars in the e-business field will be invited to give keynote speeches, and workshops on different topics will be organized together with academic institutions located within China or abroad. A Doctor consortium will be held at the conference, active youth scholars will be invited to give individual speeches at different sessions, and more enriching activities will be organized at the conference.

Submission Guidelines

We only accept full research papers from different aspects of business and disciplines. Research methods such as case study, modeling, empirical study, on-spot, questionnaire, or experimental study are all welcomed.

  • Full research papers: The paper should be written in English, and haven’t been published before. The topic of the paper should comply with conference tracks. A full research paper is expected to include innovative research results from empirical research, experiments, modeling, or theory study. Excellent papers after double-blind review will be awarded ‘best paper nomination’ and be recommended to international journals. The length of the submitted paper should be 9-10 pages (typesetting as required by proceedings paper format). The recommended paper author is required to provide an expanded abstract of 2 pages. At least one author of accepted paper should attend the conference and present the paper, and accepted papers should register before March 31, 2024.
  • Paper Format Requirements: You are required to write and edit your paper highly in accordance with format requirements with no change in format. Your paper should be submitted through the online submission system (Easychair).

List of Topics

  • Digital Empowerment and Social Impact
  • AIoT Enabled Business Innovation
  • Computing and Complexity in Digital Platforms
  • Data Analytics and Data Intelligence
  • Digital Economy
  • Digital Enablement and Digital Governance
  • Digital Technologies and New Ways of Working
  • E-business Strategy & Online Marketing
  • Emerging Technologies and Social Commerce
  • Engaging Technologies
  • Human-machinerobot Interaction
  • Information Management and Health Outcomes
  • Information Systems and Operations Management
  • Technology in Education
  • User Behavior in Information Systems

Besides the above 15 tracks, we welcome research in the fields of e-business, information systems, marketing, and related, home or abroad, to propose frontier track themes. You can propose themes to us by downloading forms from the conference website, and filling in relative information as required. 2 to 3 Track Chairs should be recommended. You will need to provide their brief introduction, personal photos, track themes, introduction of 200 words to the track, together with 5 to 8 topics. You will need to follow the procedures as application, approval, information uploading, paper soliciting, paper reviewing, and session chairing. Themes are expected to be different from existing tracks (approved themes will be publicized immediately online). Please make sure that at least one Chair is present and chair the session. Anyone interested in proposing themes please download the form from the conference website, fill in the form, and send it to Professor Weiguo (Patrick) Fan (weiguofan@uiowa.edu) and Professor Zhen Zhu (zhuzhen2008@gmail.com). The deadline for the track proposal is November 10th, 2023.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline for track proposal: November 10th, 2023
  • Easychair system open for submission: November 20th, 2023
  • Submission deadline for full manuscript: February 1st, 2024
  • Acceptance announcement and Registration: March 5th, 2024
  • Deadline for final camera-ready paper: March 17th, 2024
  • Registration deadline (accepted paper): March 17th, 2024
  • Conference date: May 24th-26th, 2024

Call for workshop proposal

In order to create an academic leading, free communication environment, besides annual workshops for the Information Economics Association and CNAIS, we welcome participants to apply for organizing workshops focusing on specific research fields, we wish to provide a discussion forum for participants of the same interest. In order to organize a workshop, a workshop Chair will be recommended with more than 3 participants. We suggest a workshop of either 2.5 hours or 4 hours (time can be prolonged upon request). Relative information such as workshop topic, form, time, Chair name, and presenter are required to be provided so that the organizing committee will make arrangements accordingly. Anyone interested in organizing a workshop please contact forum Chair Professor Kanliang Wang (kanliang.wang@gmail.com), and Associate Professor Yi Jiang(wuhanjoey@163.com). The deadline for workshop application is no later than March.31st, 2024.

Publication

  • Conference proceedings from 2003-2021 have been listed in the Conference Proceedings Citation IndexScience/Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH, the former Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings®, ISTP).
  • Conference proceedings from 2023 have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), and have been indexed by EI Compendex, CPCI, and Scopus index.
  • The proceedings from 2011 will also be available at AIS eLibrary (http://ais.site-ym.com/?AISeLibrary).

     International Journal Recommendation

  • Selected best papers from the proceeding will be recommended to the following international academic journals/special issues: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications(SSCI), Electronic Markets(SSCI), Electronic Commerce Research(SSCI), Internet Research (SSCI), Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (SCI & SSCI), Journal of Information & Knowledge Management(EI), International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations(EI）, Journal of Systems and Information Technology(EI).

Committees

Conference Hosts

  • School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
  • Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany

Organizers

  • The Center for International Cooperation in E-Business, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
  • School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China
  • College of Business Administration, Ningbo University of Finance & Economics, China

Sponsors

  • Association for Information Systems(AIS)
  • China Association for Information Systems (CNAIS)
  • China Information Economics Society
  • Wuhan University of Communication

Sponsoring Journals (alphabetical order)

  • Electronic Commerce Research (SSCI)
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (SSCI)
  • Electronic Markets-The International Journal on Networked Business (SSCI)
  • Internet Research (SSCI)
  • Journal of Database Management (SCIE)
  • Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (SCI & SSCI)
  • International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations (EI & Scopus)
  • Journal of Systems and Information Technology (EI & Scopus index)

Conference Co-Chairs

  • Jing Zhao, Professor, CICEB, School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, zhao5563@outlook.com
  • Juergen Seitz, Professor, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim, Germany, seitz@dhbw-heidenheim.de
  • Doug Vogel, Professor, AIS President 2012-2013, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, isdoug@hit.edu.cn

Program Committee

        Chairs:

  • Weiguo (Patrick) Fan, Professor, University of Iowa, USA, weiguo-fan@uiowa.edu
  • Zhen Zhu, Professor, China University of Geosciences, zhuzhen2008@gmail.com

        Session Chairs:

  • Kanliang Wang, Professor, Renmin University, China, kanliang.wang@gmail.com
  • Jinghua Xiao, Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, lnsxjh@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  • Rong Du, Professor, Xidian University, China, durong@mail.xidian.edu.cn
  • Yi Jiang, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences, China, wuhanjoey@163.com

        Publicity Chairs & Proceedings Editors

  • Yiliu (Paul) Tu, Professor, University of Calgary, Canada, paultu@ucalgary.ca
  • Maomao Chi, Professor, China University of Geosciences, China, chimaomao@aliyun.com

Organization Committee

        Chairs

  • Yao Zhang, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, orangeyao@126.com

        Secretary-general 

  • Fei Wang, Assistant Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, wangfei@cug.edu.cn

       Members 

  • Yating Peng, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan China
  • Jing Wang, Assistant Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan China
  • Qian Zhao, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan China

International Advisory Board

        Chairs

  • Joey George, Professor of Iowa State University, USA, AIS President 2010-2011
  • Robert Kauffman, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Danmark
  • J. Christopher Westland, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

        -Pacific Asian

  • Patrick Chau, Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
  • Guoqing Chen, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
  • Wei Kwok Kee, Professor, AIS President 2003-2004, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Feicheng Ma, Professor, Wuhan University, China
  • Jiye Mao, Professor, Renmin University, China
  • Michael D. Myers, Professor, AIS President 2006-2007, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Bernard Tan, Professor, AIS President 2009-2010, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Kanliang Wang, Professor, Renmin University, China
  • Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Professor, Deakin University, Australia
  • Kang Xie, Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
  • Qiang Ye, Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • J. Leon Zhao, Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China

       -North American

  • Bob Carasik, Wells Fargo Bank, USA
  • Weiguo Fan, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
  • Joey George, AIS President 2010-2011, Iowa State University, USA
  • Zhangxi Lin, Professor, Texas Tech University, USA
  • Ning Nan, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Paul A. Pavlou, Professor, Temple University, USA
  • Arun Rai, Professor, Editor in Chief of MISQ, Georgia State University, USA
  • Xinlin Tang, Associate Professor, Florida State University, USA
  • Richard Watson, Professor, University of Georgia, USA
  • Christopher Yang, Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States
  • Han Zhang, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

        -European

  • David Avison, Professor, ESSEC, France
  • Niels Bjorn-Andersen, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Marco De Marco, Professor, Università Cattolica, Italy
  • John Qi Dong, Professor, University of Dublin, Ireland
  • Reima Suomi, Professor, Turku School of Economics, Finland
  • Yao-Hua Tan, Professor, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, Professor, FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Contact

        Website

  • http://whiceb.cug.edu.cn/en/

        E-mail: 

  • whiceb2018@hotmail.com for authors outside China Dr. Fei Wang & Yao Zhang
  • whiceb2015@vip.163.com or whiceb@aliyun.com for authors in China Dr. Jing Wang

        Sina Weibo

  • http://weibo.com/whiceb

        Address

  • School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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