The minitrack aims to provide a forum for addressing systems development issues related to E-Commerce. E-commerce can be classified into two categories: business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B). E-commerce systems are different from traditional systems. E-commerce systems architecture, infrastructure, model, and development process require special consideration. Even within e-commerce, B2B systems development issues are different from B2C systems. Research in this area is sparse and urgently needed.

In an effort to bridge academic research and industry practice, both research articles and experience reports are welcome. The minitrack is interested in the following topics (not exhaustive):  

• B2B and B2C Models
• Extending ERP to B2B
• Inter-enterprise architecture
• Component based development
• Infrastructure for e-commerce systems
• Costing model for e-commerce systems
• E-commerce systems development strategies
• Security issues related to e-commerce systems
• Data interchange standards and rules of engagement
• User-interface design issues for e-commerce systems 
• Database and data warehousing issues in e-commerce
• Trust and privacy in e-commerce systems development
• Virtual archive and data retrieval for e-commerce systems 
• E-commerce systems development methods and methodologies 
• Project management tools for e-commerce systems development 
• CASE tools and software for developing e-commerce applications 
• Cognitive and human factor issues in developing e-commerce systems 
• Evaluating existing analysis and design methods and methodologies for e-commerce systems development

Keng Siau
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Email: ksiau@unl.edu

Akhilesh Bajaj
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: akhilesh@andrew.cmu.edu