Digital Business First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 200
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009, held in London, UK, in June 2009. The 19 contributions published in this volume were carefully selected from over 60 submitted works in a rigorous peer-reviewe
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Luigi Telesca Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva Veselin Rakocevic (Eds.)
Digital Business First Iternational ICST Conference, DigiBiz 2009 London, UK, June 17-19, 2009 Revised Selected Papers
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Volume Editors Luigi Telesca CREATE-NET Via alla Cascata 56D 38100 Povo, Trento, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva University of St. Gallen Institute for Media and Communications Management Blumenbergplatz 9 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Veselin Rakocevic City University London School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942428 CR Subject Classification (1998): K.4.4, J.1, H.4.1, I.6, C.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This volume contains the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Digital Business (DigiBiz 2009), hosted by City University London in London, UK. This annual event had the main objective to stimulate and disseminate research results and experimentation on future Digital Business to a wider multidisciplinary forum that would allow the participants to cross the boundaries between research and business. The scientific offering in e-business, e-commerce, and ICT in general is quite broad and spans many different research themes, involving several communities and methodologies. The growth and dynamic nature of these research themes pose both challenges and opportunities. The challenges are in having scientists and practitioners talk to each other: despite the fact that they work on similar problems they often use very different languages in terms of research tools and approaches. The opportunities on the other hand arise when scientists and practitioners engage in multidisciplinary discussions leading to new ideas, projects and products. The first DigiBiz in London engaged the participants in discussions on the evolution of business models, the increased liquidity of competition through increased availability of information and the impact of
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