Bled eConference Living Labs for Territorial Innovation: Smart Cities, Smart Regions and Smart Development

eBled 2012 is the 25th eBled conference and this is a reason to celebrate. What began as a Slovenian conference with topics around Electronic Data Interchange is for decades now an International forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and attracts participants from all over the world. Throughout the first 25 years, the Bled conference went along with the new Economy, the Digital Revolution, financial turmoils and the political and societal changes in Europe.

eBled 2012 is the 25th eBled conference and this is a reason to celebrate. What began as a Slovenian conference with topics around Electronic Data Interchange is for decades now an International forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and attracts participants from all over the world. Throughout the first 25 years, the Bled conference went along with the new Economy, the Digital Revolution, financial turmoils and the political and societal changes in Europe. All aspects of electronic interaction – eEverything – is the theme of the Bled electronic commerce conference series. Society today depends on eIinfrastructures enabling eInteractions – on eEverything.

Do we master the craft, art and science of designing eEverything so that we can depend on? The conference theme eDependability serves as a forum to discuss design and creation of reliable and trustworthy eStructures, eProcesses, eOperations and eServices. Is the silver standard that we reached enough? What needs to be done for the gold standard? Researchers, practitioners and policy makers are invited to contribute to the eDependability theme.

RESEARCH TRACK TOPICS

We invite submissions in all areas of “e” research and teaching, encouraging submissions related to the conference theme:

• eDependability – The art and science to design and create reliable and trustworthy eStructures, eProcesses, eOp-eration and eServices
• eEverything – all aspects of Electronic Data Interchange, eCommerce and eBusiness; using ICT to create solutions for individuals, organizations and society
• e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Markets

to addition to following topics:

eCommerce  |  eBusiness  |  Interorganizational Systems  |  eMarketplaces & Communities Mobile Value Services  |  Cloud Computing  |  eSociety  |  Enterprise 2.0  |  Social Media eLearning 2.0 & eEducation  |  eSMEs  |  eBusiness Models  | eLiving Labs  |  eCollaboration eRegions eSupported & Open Innovation  |  eHealth  |  eDependency  |  eTrust  |  ePrivacy

All submissions to the Research Stream will be considered for The Bled Outstanding Paper Award by a panel of judges.

2012 SPECIAL INTEREST TRACKS 

Beside the general research topics the 25th Bled conference offers special interest tracks on:

• eHealth
  Co-chairs: Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia & Juergen Seitz, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
• Social Media and Web 2.0 in Commerce and Business
  Co-chairs: Jari Salo, Aalto University, Finland & Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, FHS St. Gallen, Switzerland
• eDemocracy: from eRevolution to eParticipation 
  Co-chairs: Julia Glidden, 21c Consultancy, United Kingdom & Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, FHS St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Cloud Computing
  Track Co-chairs: Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany & Matjaž Jurič, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Research Supervision Dilemmas
  Co-chairs: Doug Vogel, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong 
  Heinz Dreher, Curtin University, Australia
• Living Labs for Territorial Innovation
  Co-chairs: Francesco Molinari, SmartIntuitions Ltd, Italia,Jesse Marsh, Atelier Studio Associato, Italia

Beside sessions with papers, special interest tracks will comprise also more interactive sessions like panels and workshops.

Research Papers should be original, unpublished elsewhere and no longer than 5,000 words.

Detailed information about electronic submission and other issues are available on the Conference web site.

See also individual track descriptions for special interest topics in the Call for Papers.

All accepted papers will be published in the Bled eConference Proceedings on the web and on CDs (with ISBN and CIP number). 

BUSINESS PANELS, WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS

You are invited to submit a business, government, or academic panel, workshop or meeting proposals related to ‘e’ research, practices etc. The proposal (1 page) should indicate the title, the chair and the panelists (name, position, affiliation, country, e-mail), the topic and issues to be discussed. Template and electronic submission information will be available at the Conference web-site.

Panels are expected to explore innovative ways of exploiting the latest eTechnologies and development approaches and to suggest new research agendas.

Workshops  are expected to demonstrate successful use (via prototypes, Living Labs, etc.) of the latest eTechnologies and to lay out the directions for further research.