Call For Papers
FinanceCom 2012 - Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry

Barcelona, 10th June 2012

http://www.financecom.org

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 2012 invites papers that help to under-stand, drive and exploit the associated systems, technologies and opportunities.

After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney, Regensburg, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt, FinanceCom 2012 will be co-located with ECIS 2012 in Barcelona on 10th June 2012. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work. We are open to various levels of analysis and methodology.

TOPICS: 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 and Business Models:
- Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks - Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems
- New e-Finance business models enabled by IT

Financial Markets:
- Electronic Markets Design and Engineering
- Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading/Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures
- Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets (e.g. MiFiD, EMIR or Dodd-Frank)

Standardization:
- Financial Business Process Standardization and standardized service modules
- Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standards
- 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)
- Implementation experiences and case studies
- Enabling decision support systems in banking and financial markets

- Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks/banking and market performance
- Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE)
- Other simulation and evaluation approaches

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission open: 15th February 2012
Submission deadline: 23st March 2012
Notification of authors: 28th April 2012
Deadline revision: 15th May 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages as per the Springer guidelines (see Instructions for LNBIP Authors at http://www.springer.com/series/7911). All papers are to be submitted via Springer's Online Conference Service (OCS) using the following link: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/requestregistration/FinanceCom2012

Instructions will be provided via a supplied email address (in case of any problems, please send an email to f.rabhi@unsw.edu.au. 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 previous proceedings in this series, see LNBIP 4 and LNBIP 23. Further details about FinanceCom 2012 can be found on http://www.financecom.org

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales
Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, E-Finance Lab

FINANCECOM 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Axel Winkelmann, University of Muenster, Germany (Requested)
Bruce W. Weber, University of Delaware, USA (Requested)
Daniel Veit, University of Mannheim, Germany
Dirk Neumann, University of Freiburg, Germany
Gregor Zellner, University of Regensburg, Germany
Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
Maurice Peat, SIRCA, Australia
Oliver Hinz, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Rainer Riess, Deutsche Borse, Germany
Robert Schwartz, The City University of New York, USA (Requested)
Roman Beck, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Tim Weitzel, University of Bamberg, Germany
Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany (Requested)

FINANCECOM STEERING COMMITTEE:
Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn, Germany
Federico Rajola, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jan Muntermann, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Ryan Riordan, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

FINANCECOM 2012 LOCAL CHAIR: Juan Miguel Gomez Berbis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain