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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your latest research results to the 18th Int. Conf. on e-Business (ICE-B 2021), that will be held Online from July 07 to July 09, 2021, until the 29<sup>th</sup> of April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Please notice this is a hard deadline and will not be extended. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>ICE-B 2021 is an annual conference whose goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in e-Business technology and its current applications. The scope of the conference covers low-level technological issues, such as technology platforms, internet of things and web services, but also higher-level issues, such as business processes, business intelligence, value setting and business strategy. Furthermore, it covers different approaches to address these issues and different possible applications with their own specific needs and requirements on technology. These are all areas of theoretical and practical importance within the broad scope of e-Business, whose growing importance can be seen from the increasing interest of the IT research community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference will be held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems and will include in its technical program remarkable distinguished speakers, such as: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jan Brocke, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index and a short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Mónica Saramago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>On behalf of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Program Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Fons Wijnhoven, University of Twente, Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Web: http://www.ice-business.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>e-mail: <a href="mailto:%20ice-b.secretariat@insticc.org">ice-b.secretariat@insticc.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>