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International Journal of Electronic Finance

 

Special Issue on: "User and Security Issues in Electronic Finance and Electronic Business"

Guest Editor: Dr. A. Ant Ozok, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

Broadly speaking, e-finance refers to the environments and corresponding activities involving the help of computers and other electronics in the finance area. Electronic business (e-business) can be defined even more broadly in that it can include virtually all computer and electronic transactions involving the trade of money or monetary goods. A number of services and products are involved to ensure smooth e-business and e-finance protocols. Today, these products and services allow for a number of complex actions to function properly, from international monetary transactions to collaborative work. However, little work has been done concerning user and security issues involving the specific systems and interfaces pertaining to the e-finance and e-business transactions. The user base of these environments is highly variable, ranging from professionals to customers. With the aid of research in interface design, security, usability and human-centered computing, such transactions can be optimised according to user needs, preferences, security and usability issues.

The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a global form for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research and case studies in both theoretical development and applied research involving user and security issues in both areas. Moreover, mobile aspects of e-finance and e-business are gaining increasing importance with transaction security and user interface issues proportionately gaining in importance. The purpose of the special issue is to discuss the effective and timely development of state-of-the-art electronic and computer-based e-finance and e-business platforms to accelerate the popularity of these concepts. Specifically, this issue intends to disseminate research and studies in the emerging e-finance and e-business platforms from users’ and security perspectives and develop techniques and solutions that directly address difficulties currently encountered in these platforms.

Subject Coverage
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:

• Effective design of e-finance and e-business platforms
• E-business portals
• Security in e-business and e-finance
• E-business and health care
• Web-based e-finance and e-business technologies
• Mobile e-business and e-finance
• Usability in mobile e-business and e-finance
• Cross-cultural e-business issues
• Design and evaluation methodologies for e-business and e-finance
• Wireless networks and e-business
• User performance and preferences in e-business
• Human-computer interaction in e-business and e-finance
• Authentication and privacy in e-business
• User perceptions of e-business and e-finance
• Platform-based e-business applications
• Education in e-business and e-finance
• Privacy in e-business
• Authentication and user issues in e-finance and e-business
• E-business and health care
• User perspectives comparisons in e-business and e-finance
• Collaboration in e-business
• Success factors in e-business and e-finance
• Support for e-business and e-finance transactions
• End-user software development for e-business and e-finance
• Mobile device user issues in e-business

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines

Important Dates

Proposal deadline (optional): 1 February, 2009

Early submission deadline [*]: June, 2009

Full paper deadline: 15 September, 2009

Notification of status & acceptance of paper: 1 November, 2009

Final version of paper: 1 December, 2009

[*] Completed manuscripts that meet the early submission deadline will be provided an opportunity for revision. If the revision is completed by the full paper deadline (15 September 2009), these manuscripts will be entered into a second round of peer review.