I’m very excited to announce that we’re planning another email workshop, following up from last year’s very successful AAAI workshop (EMAIL-08). This one is titled The 1st International Workshop on Email in e-Commerce and Enterprise Contexts (E3C), and is being held at the 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2009) in Vienna, Austria on July 20th 2009.

Important Dates:

• Full paper submission: March 15th, 2009
• Authors Notification: April 15th, 2009
• Camera ready versions due: May 15th, 2009
• Workshop: July 20, 2009

One of the main aims of this workshop is to gather email and enterprise computing researchers and practitioners to discuss and propose solutions for email in e-commerce and enterprise contexts.

Topics:

• Architecture for enterprise cooperation and interoperability over email
• Intelligent email for SMEs
• Email-based business task and process management
• Email content analysis, message summarization, information extraction
• Semantic Email and Semantic Knowledge Extraction
• Email social networks for enterprise computing
• Email analysis of exchanged documents for semantic alignment via negotiation
• Email Workflow Management for Business Processes
• Interconnection of email content and enterprise resources (legacy systems, document repositories)
• Enterprise resource mashup support for business email
• Approaches for email visualization and user interfaces in business contexts
• Case studies
• Business email datasets

If you’re a researcher working with email, or if your startup or company is in the email space, please consider submitting a paper or demo to the workshop. Full details are available in the Call for Papers.