Editorial: Forthcoming Issues

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Special IssuesNext year, 2014, it will be 30 years since the first Business-to-Customer online shopping occurred (i.e., Michael Aldrich teleshopping; Gateshead SIS/Tesco as merchant and Mrs. Snowball as the first online home shopper; (Site 1), and 20 years since the first web-based online ordering service was launched. In the same year, 1984, CompuServe introduced the Electronic Mall in the USA and Canada (Site 2), the first comprehensive electronic commerce service. Ten years later (i.e., 1994), once the World Wide Web was created, Pizza hut started offering online ordering through its webpage. The same year, the first online banking service was offered.Therefore, we have a good reason to call for papers for a special issue to discuss and share the state-of-the-art in electronic commerce. This special issue of Electronic Commerce aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in the field of electronic commerce discussing research contributions that have helped to develop the various fields of Electronic Commerce over the last 20 to 30 years, and outlining the challenges for future research. We invite high quality submissions focusing on all aspects of electronic commerce, including both business and technology issues.Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to different topics in: Business-to-Business; Business-to-Consumer; Business-to-Government; Consumer-to-Consumer; and Mobile Commerce. However, all submissions should consider the presentation of the state-of-the-art through different review methods such as systematic literature review, meta-analysis, network approach towards review, etc., aiming to present and discuss the level of knowledge and development in electronic commerce achieved in the last 30 years, and to propose a well-motivated agenda with the most important challenges for future research.This issue will be edited by Dr. Narciso Cerpa and Dr. Harry Bouwman. Full paper submission deadline: 1st of November 2013. Please see the Call for Papers for more information.To respond to suggestions of our readers and to needs of current society, we have planned another important special issue on a current topic, Innovation through Open Data, which will be guest edited by Prof. Dr. Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology), Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Ramon Gil-Garcia (CIDE), Dr. Natalie Helbig (Center for Technology in Government / SUNY Albany) and Anneke Zuiderwijk (Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice). Publication: April 2014.The December 2013 issue will be dedicated to Cloud Computing and Electronic Commerce and will be edited by Dr. …