Proposed SAINT2004 Workshop 1 : E-BUSINESS

This workshop or session will provide a forum for computer users, engineers, 
and scientists in academia, business/industry, and government to present their 
latest findings and viewpoints in e-business. Areas of particular interest 
include, but are not limited to:

Theme1 
E-business systems and its regulation; internet-commerce, mobile commerce / 
usages, new services and business models, protection and confidence 
E-Finance systems and regulation: payment systems, electronic money, internet 
banking, e-brokerage, and virtual financial market / protection and confidence

Theme2
Emergence and valorization of the innovation: patent (law process and 
evaluation), development of innovation (spin off, incubator, corporate venture 
capital), public research and firms (transfer, collaborative project)

Theme3
The applications of P2P technology; Impacts of Internet technology on P2P 
network: intelligent agents (shop bots, price bots), semantic web, new 
interfaces, infrastructure for e-business, data base analysis

Organizers:

   Hitoshi Okada
   Associate Professor
   National Institute of Informatics, Japan
   okada@nii.ac.jp

   Jean-Michel Sahut
   Professor and Head of RESFIN Laboratory
   Institut National des Telecommunications, Evry, France
   www.int-evry.fr, Jean-Michel.Sahut@int-evry.fr

   Nobuhiko Sugiura
   Research Fellow
   Financial Research and Training Center, Communication and Policy Division 
   Financial Services Agency, Japanese Government, Tokyo Japan
   n-sugiura@fsa.go.jp

   Shiro Uesugi
   Associate Professor
   Matsuyama University
   uesugi@cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp