The International Conference on Electronic commerce (ICEC) provides a forum for the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce from all over the word annually. After holding the conference in Canada, USA, and Austria in the last three years, we are returning to Asia and hosting ICEC'09 in Taipei.

ICEC'09 will feature invited keynote presentation, panels on topical issues on technology, business, and public policy, referred paper presentations on emerging and continuing research issues, tutorial and workshops on new areas of service science and management, demonstrations and posters.

The theme of ICEC'09 is service innovations for e-commerce. Along with ICT enhancement and business integration, e-commerce has become the common practice for many business transactions. It has emerged with business processes to deliver values to internal and external customers. The demand of customer-centric services requires innovated approaches to identify customer needs, and design effective processes to deliver value to customers, especially facing the increasing number of Web-based applications (e.g., Web 2.0). Thus, the study of the innovation in services for e-commerce becomes the next hop of e-commerce research and practice. This conference aims to facilitate the dialogues among domain experts in academic and industries to exchange insights in related issues, and hopefully boost up research momentum across disciplines to contribute to service innovation for e-commerce.