The 24th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2023) will be held in Xi'an, China on June 29th - July 2nd, 2023. ICEC is an academic conference that deals with issues related to information technology and management in e-commerce. Since 1998, it has been held annually in countries around the world, including China, South Korea, Austria, the United States, Netherlands, Singapore, and United Kingdom. The theme of ICEC 2023 is “Sustainable and Innovative Development of E-Commerce” with a special plenary Workshop on “ AI/ChatGPT and Bright Internet ” in July 30th that includes keynotes and panels.
The selected papers from ICEC 2023 will be invited to the special issues of the journals such as Electronic Commerce Research (SSCI), Electronic Commerce Research and Application (SSCI), and Data Science and Management (Scopus journal, Elseriver ).
ICEC 2023 aims at providing researchers and practitioners in electronic commerce and related areas with an opportunity to present original ideas and share insightful opinions.
Important notice: the conference will be hybrid with both online and offline meeting, and no quarantine are required for international scholars to enter China. Refer to your national airline whether PCR test within 48 hours is required.
We look forward to seeing you at ICEC 2023 in Xi'an.
Relevant Topics (but not limited to)
- ◦ Cross-border e-commerce
- ◦ Big Data and Machine Learning in e-commerce
- ◦ Social Media and Social Networking
- ◦ Metaverse Platform and User Behavior
- ◦ Mobile and Social Commerce
- ◦ Internet-of-Things for Business
- ◦ Digital Healthcare & Telemedicine Service
- ◦ Artificial Intelligence for e-commerce
- ◦ Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Sales
- ◦ Entertainment, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality
- ◦ Smart and Wearable Technologies
- ◦ Online-to-offline Services in e-commerce
- ◦ Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Token Economy
- ◦ Digital Ecosystem for the Next Normal
- ◦ Emerging Financial Technology (Fintech)
Jae Kyu Lee
is a Distinguished Professor of School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University and Professor Emeritus of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He has been professor of KAIST since 1985, and finished his tenure as HHI Chair Professor. He received fellow and LEO Award and served the President (2015-6) of Association for Information Systems. He is the founder of Principles for the Bright Internet and founded Bright Internet Research Center at KAIST and Xi’an Jiaotong University. He also founded the Bright Internet Global Summit and Bright Internet Project Consortium in 2019 as posted at www.brightinternet.org. He received his Ph.D. in Information and Operations Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1985. His research area covers AI, eCommerce, information systems, and Bright Internet.
Shan Liu
is a Professor of information systems and e-commerce and Associate Dean of School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He serves as the founding executive editor of Data Science and Management (Elsevier). He received the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 refereed articles, including articles that have appeared or accepted in the Journal of Operations Management, the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information Systems Journal, the European Journal of Information Systems, the European Journal of Operational Research, and Information and Management. His research interests include IT project management, E-commerce, and data analytics.
This speech covers the revolutionary aspects of hyperscale foundation models, with a specific focus on
GPT-4, from conversational, generative, and general AI perspectives. Additionally, we will examine the
impact of the GPT revolution on various industries and explore new business models using case studies,
as well as discuss future prospects. Lastly, we will share ongoing research and development efforts to
integrate transformers with federated learning.
Yu Zhao,
professor, who obtained his joint PhD from the University of Rochester, USA, is also recognized as a senior visiting scholar at University of Paris 6, France. He is selected for the Guanghua Hundred Talent Program at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, and serves as a committee member of the Natural Language Understanding Special Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, as well as the Deputy Chair of the Natural Language Understanding Special Committee at the Sichuan Computer Society. His main research interests lie in the areas of large language models, general artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and fintech. He has published more than 30 papers in internationally renowned journals and conferences, such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TMC, ACL, and ICME. Prof. Zhao has been funded by a Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a Key Project Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province, and a General Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province. Finally, he has written one monograph and co-authored one textbook. 
Chen Wang
is a professor of Graphic & Interactive design at California State University; With expertise in user interface and user experience design, his research spans various design fields, including semantic studies, data visualization, accessibility design, information design and branding.
Jie Ma
serves as the Research Director at the Wuxi Tsinghua Institute of Applied Technologies. He obtained his PhD from University of Portsmouth in the UK. Previously he worked as the Research Director for the Institute for Data Science in Tsinghua University, and once held the position of CTO at a prominent big data company. With a strong background in big data analytics, Dr. Ma's current focus lies in the field of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Mingming Xie
is the founder and president of Beijing Sitai Zhengde Technology Development Co., Ltd. After obtaining his MBA degree from Texas Tech University, he founded SOFT TECH company in Silicon Valley, USA, in 1994. In 1999, invited by the State Council Informatization Leading Group and the National Development and Reform Commission, he settled down in Beijing and has been dedicated in China's software industry. His contributions include first initiating and promoting Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) in China, involved into planning software industry at the state level, developing software project management 
Xiaoyi Yao
is an international partner at the renowned international law firm, King & Wood Mallesons. Holding a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, her expertise lies in intellectual property litigation. Dr. Yao is also adept at addressing complex legal matters and has provided guidance to clients on the potential rights and risks associated with cutting-edge AI technologies, such as ChatGPT.
This speech will present the evolution of AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) from simple
reproduction to advanced comprehension, its current state, and future trend. We will explore the
feasibility and strategy of combining deep learning with cognitive learning towards the ultimate goal of
achieving artificial general intelligence. Furthermore, it will also discuss the challenging issues
surrounding AIGC applications, such as knowledge fusion, security impact, legal problems, and more.
Tan Xiao Sheng
is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Beijing Genius Cyber Tech Co.,Ltd. He served the Technology President and Chief Security Officer of 360 Group, and special consultant under the Cybersecurity Bureau of Ministry of Public Security and Director and Deputy Secretary-general of China Computer Federation (CCF). He also served as CTO of Yahoo!China; COO and CTO of MySpace China. He was awarded as top of Zhong Guan Cun’s leading talents in 2012, and received an outstanding cybersecurity talent title from China Internet Development Foundation in 2018.
Chuang Wu
is an Assistant Professor in School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research interests focused on corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate governance, and corporate strategy. His work has been published in some scholarly journals including Journal of Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
Yunfeng Zang
is the senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Shanghai Yovole Networks Inc. He leads Yovole’s long-term technology vision, and is responsible for the operations and development of Yovole Cloud platform and the Operation Automation products. VP Yunfeng Zang was a founding Director of Board of Bright Internet Project Consortium since July 2019. He proposed and designed the idea of Bright Cloud that his own company Yovole Cloud can adopt for research and operate for business.
This speech covers the introduction of the China national strategy of “West Compute for East Data”, the infrastructure of computility (Compute + Utility) and the network development that reinforces the basis of AI development. Shanghai, as the forerunner, launched the first regional Computility Exchange based upon Shanghai Internet Exchange. This speech will share some of the typical landscapes of the Computility Exchange in associate with AI.
Triangulation through multiple studies and/or methods is increasingly common in quantitative research in the information systems (IS) discipline (including electronic commerce). This speech will discuss replication vs. triangulation, mixed methods vs. multiple methods, and why and how we conduct multiple studies in IS research. The speaker will use case studies to illustrate the aforementioned issues, share reflections on conducting multiple studies, and offer suggestions for journal reviewers and editors to better evaluate the need to request additional studies during the paper review process.
We examine the interaction between a firm's bundling strategy and a platform's distribution contract decision. Under the wholesale contract, we identify a wholesale-price-concession effect, a collective consequence of both upstream bundling and double marginalization, where an increase of market heterogeneity can trigger a lower wholesale price from the firm. Under the agency contract, our analysis demonstrates that the commission rate can have non-monotone effects on the firm's bundling strategy due to a non-cost-bearing effect, whereby an increase in retail price enlarges the proportion of revenue allocated to the firm and is further amplified by the commission rate. We next show when and how the firm makes different bundling decisions under wholesale and agency contracts. We then discuss the platform's optimal distribution contract decision.
This talk presents three progressive research on the change of the mechanism of enterprise value creation: development of the live e-commerce model from the budding stage (2019-2020) to the commercial realization stage (2020-2021) to the commercial explosion stage (2021-present). This study for the first time conducts an in-depth study based on a mixed-methods approach, taking the live e-business established by enterprises as an example, to provide feasible suggestions on how enterprises can optimize the use of digital technologies to create economic and social added value at different stages from the perspective of digital accessibility. The overall aim of the talk is to analyze how digital technology can reconfigure the “People, Product, Place” of live e-commerce so as to help governments, platforms, and enterprises cope with the economic development in the uncertain environment in the post-epidemic era.
Xi'an Future Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, with the key support of Artificial Intelligence hardware and software infrastructure based on Huawei Ascension architecture, focuses on building a center and creating four ecological platforms to achieve a closed loop of Artificial Intelligence "government-industry-study-research-application", and has provided computing power services for 125 enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions since its operation.
