Guest editorial: special selection on commerce and enterprise computing

Abstract

The 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC’09) was held in Vienna, Austria from July 20th to 23rd 2009. This conference is the result of a merger of the two annual flagship conferences of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce: the IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC) and the IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (EEE). Given its new title, the conference provides a platform for researchers and practitioners interested in theory and practice of technologies to be used in E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing. CEC covers diverse research areas including Commerce and Business Systems Architecture, Electronic Commerce Technologies, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, Business Services, Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering, Security and Trust, Mobile Business Applications, Social Networks, E-Government, and Human Computer Interaction. Researchers presented and discussed key technical and economic problems, challenges, trends and requirements in the E-Commerce and Enterprise Computing fields. This special issue of the SOCA journal can be regarded as an extended forum for the CEC conference. CEC’09 had 115 submissions of which 22 regular papers were accepted. The best paper nominees were invited to submit an extended version of their conference papers. All submissions have gone through an additional review cycle by reviewers of the SOCA journal. Out of these submissions, five papers were selected and are presented in this special issue. The first article, titled “The Design and Implementation of Service Process Reconfiguration with End-to-End QoS