The 2nd International Symposium on u- and e- Service, Science and Technology will be held on October 12~14, 2009, Melbourne, Australia.

UNESST 2009 will be the most comprehensive Symposium focused on the various aspects of advances in u- and e- Service, Science and Technology. Our Symposium provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology.

The goal of this Symposium is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology.

All accepted and registered papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by IEEE CS (as a Short Paper, 4 pages. Indexed by EI). And most presented papers at the conference, after revision and extension, will be included in CCIS (as a Full Paper, at least 12 pages. New LNCS sister-series, indexed by EI). And some papers selected will be included in some journals (pending).

Our Symposium provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology.

Topics of Symposium

The main topics include but will not be limited to: (Excellent surveying works in these areas are welcome, too.)

* Adoption of Standards and Protocols for e- or u-Business Applications
* B2B, B2C and C2C Architectures
* Case Studies in Industry and Government
* Collaborative Business Systems
* CRM and Business Solutions
* Data and Knowledge Engineering
* e- or u-Banking
* e- or u-Business Systems for Multiple Platforms
* e- or u-Entertainment
* e- or u-Government
* e- or u-Learning
* e- or u-Marketing and Consumer Behavior
* e- or u-Negotiation and Auction Mechanisms
* e- or u-Payment Systems
* GPS Applications and Location-based Services
* Grid Computing for e- or u-Business
* Healthcare and Medical Applications
* Intellectual Rights
* Interoperability and Integration
* m-Business and Ubiquitous Services
* Mobile Services and Architectures
* Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks
* Multi-Agent Systems and Information Integration
* Open Source Technologies in e- or u-Business
* Quality of Service (QoS) and Metrics
* Security and Privacy
* Semantic Web Applications and Ontology Sharing
* Service-Oriented Architectures
* Supply-chain Management
* Systems Development and Evaluation
* Telematics and Middleware Platforms
* Trust and Privacy Issues in Social Networks
* User Interfaces and Usability
* Virtual Organizations
* VPN Technology and Services
* Web Data Visualization
* Web Personalization and Decision Making
* Web Services
* Web Site Monitoring and Optimization
* Workflow Management Systems
* XML and Domain Mark-up Languages
* Others