Call for Papers: FinanceCom 2008

Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 2008 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and opportunities.

After three very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney, Regensburg, and Montreal, FinanceCom 2008 will be co-located with ICIS 2008 in Paris in December of 2008. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. We thus welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work that spans multiple disciplines. While most papers have been on innovative applications of novel technology such as service-oriented architectures or grid computing in banking and finance (see Veit et al. (eds.): Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 4, for last year's proceedings), we are open to various levels of analysis and methodology and especially also invite papers using the research paradigm of agent-based computational economics (ACE).

The topics of interest in this research area include but are not limited to:

• Services
  • Service-Oriented Computing and Architectures in Finance, Banking and Insurance
  • Business Value of Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Service-Oriented Modeling
• Networks, markets and business models
  • Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks
  • Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems
  • Electronic Markets Design and Engineering
  • New e-Finance business models enabled by IT
• Standardization
  • Financial Business Process Standardization and standardized service modules
  • Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standards (e.g. MiFiD)
  • Synergetic usage of IFRS (IAS) and Basel II implementations in bank management
• IT and implementations
  • Role of new technologies (e.g. Web Services and Grid Computing)
  • Role of IT in competing market models
  • Implementation experiences and case studies
  • Enabling decision support systems in banking
• Developing approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks as well as banking and market performance
  • Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE)
  • Other simulation and evaluation approaches

Important Dates

Submission open: submit here

Submission deadline: 1st September 2008

Notification of authors: 17th October 2008

Deadline 1st revision: 15th November 2008

Submission Details

Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages as per the Springer guidelines (see: template with instructions). Papers must be written in English language. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer through the conference management system. In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract, with the following information: title of paper; names and affiliations of authors; name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax number of primary contact; abstract. The same information should be included on the first page of submitted papers. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with the specified primary contact.

Publication

We plan to publish best papers as a post proceedings book in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. For last year's proceedings see:

Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry 3rd International Workshop, FinanceCom 2007, Montreal, Canada, December 8, 2007, Revised Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing , Vol. 4 Veit, D.; Kundisch, D.; Weitzel, T.; Weinhardt, C.; Rabhi, F.A.; Rajola, F. (Eds.) 2008, XII, 191 p., Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78549-1

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