Digital Business : First International ICST Conference, Digibiz 2009, London, UK, June 17-19, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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 me- odologies. The growth and dynamic nature of these research themes pose both ch- lenges 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 d- cussions leading to new ideas, projects and products.

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-reviewed process.

The papers dealt with subjects like virtual business alliances, organizational and coordination theory, model driven businesses, efficient energy management, e-negotiations, future internet markets and business strategies, agent technologies, recommender for active preference estimate, trust & reputation models for e-commerce, RFID architectures, decentralized system for ubiquitous VoIP services, reservation and incentive schemes for Grid markets, end-user driven service creation, digital media distribution, IP-TV, social media trails, P2P business and legal models.