CONFENIS Special Session on The International Symposium on Electronic Marketplace Integration & Interoperability (EM2I'07) is a new venue for presenting state-of-the-art research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of integration technology for electronic marketplaces that affect business interoperability between firms and within supply chains. Although the traditional forms of e-marketplaces such as intermediaries, supplier portals, and content hubs are an important area of focus for the symposium, integration technology is increasingly supporting a much wider range of business interoperability that enables contextually heterogeneous enterprises to semantically work together beyond operational transactions. As more and more firms in all regions of the globe are able to interact online, we are rapidly moving toward an integrated global e-marketplace consisting of loosely coupled vertical, horizontal, and regional e-marketplaces.
Topics of interest for CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I'07 include all contexts in which integration technology is used to mediate enterprise activities through e-marketplaces such as buyer and seller matching, transaction facilitation, and legal infrastructure. The technology may include: business data engineering; languages for describing products and services; business document modeling and integration, business process design and coordination, marketplace services collaboration; semantic technologies.

Given its specified context of e-marketplace, CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I is a multi-disciplinary symposium, and participation of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures and perspectives is strongly encouraged. We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners in all sectors, including academia, industry, and government.

CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I targets at the leading edge of thinking about the role of e-marketplace technologies in our modern business. With your help, CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I'07 – the first exciting venue for communicating with the talented ideas of business interoperability on e-marketplace – will play an important role in creating profitable e-commerce technologies. Come and help us make CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I' 07 a stimulating and exciting event.

CONFENIS Special Session on EM2I'07 invites state-of-the-art contributions on all topics related to e-marketplace integration and interoperability, including (but not limited to):

• General technologies for engineering e-marketplaces
• Engineering approaches and models for e-marketplaces
• Integration models for fragmented e-marketplaces
• Technical functions and services of e-marketplaces
• Semantic technologies for business interoperability
• Ontology-based e-marketplace integration
• Collaborative e-marketplace integration
• Standards and protocols for product representation, business documents, processes, and services
• Computational linguistics in the context of e-marketplaces
• Empirical research on e-marketplaces
• Trends of e-marketplace development
• Business models for e-marketplaces
• Vertical, horizontal, and regional aspects of e-marketplaces

We solicit original unpublished full papers of both technical and empirical aspects. Papers should be submitted in IFIP paper format. All papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings of CONFENIS 2007, which will be published by Kluwer Publisher. Selected best papers will be expanded and revised for a special issue of the international journal Enterprise Information Systems , published by the second world's largest academic publisher Tailor & Francis and indexed in SCI/EI. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work. Please submit papers in PDF format through the following link:

- Paper submission: April 20, 2007.
- Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2007.
- Camera-ready version due: June 5, 2007.
- Deadline for Early Registration: August 15, 2007.
- Symposium starts: October 15, 2007.