**CALL FOR PAPERS**
*Toward Servicitization: eBusiness and Service Science
*The Eighth Asian eBusiness Workshop (Asian eBiz 2008)
*August 28-30, 2008, Gyeongju, Korea
*Venue: Gyeongju TEMF Hotel
*Hosted by KAIST, Seoul, Korea

You are cordially invited to participate in the Asian eBiz Workshop again. As announced before, the workshop will be held in Gyeongju, a living historical city of Korea, hosted by KAIST.

Service industry now accounts for lion share of the labor force in East Asia as well as other countries. Many products companies have been transformed to services companies or some companies seem to be in the middle of this transition. Researchers and practitioners need to apply more scientific rigor to the practices of services and servicitization of business. This trend inspires many new business models and ideas as well as diverse technologies while we do not have any clear understandings what they are and how they affect business. Hence, the main theme of this workshop is chosen to address diverse aspects of service science and e-Business.

In order to invite more quality research works, a special issue of an academic journal will be arranged for the workshop. Authors can choose their paper will be considered for publication in the special issue. The papers should be written in English. The abstract of each paper must include the following information: title of the paper; name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s); abstract of the paper; postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address of the corresponding author. The detailed information about the journal and submission guidelines will be notified later.
The proceedings of the workshop will contain all of your accepted submissions but those who want to consider the special issue should choose your choice of publication outlet when you submit the abstract.
Hope we see all of you at Gyeongju.

*Important Dates
 Abstract Submission (within 300 words): February 29, 2008
 Acceptance Notification: March 31, 2008
 Full Paper Submission Due (Proceeding): August 3, 2008
 Conference: August 28-30, 2008

*Topics of Interests
Authors are invited to submit their original, previously unpublished papers focused on the themes of service science and e-business, including research, theory, development, and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Service Science • e-Business Strategy
• IT Service • Digital Transformation
• Servicitization of Business • Digital economy
• Web 2.0 • IT Investment
• Digital Convergence • Digital Content
• Mobile Business • Ubiquitous computing applications

*Paper Submission
Formatting instructions for the Workshop proceeding and a sample paper are attached in this e-mail. Full papers for the workshop proceeding are limited to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, references, and the title and abstract page. Please send papers (in Word) to the organizing committee through email at hongjoo@catholic.ac.kr.

*Local Organizing Committee
Byungtae Lee (Chair), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Jong Woo Kim, HanYang University, Korea
Hong Joo Lee, The Catholic University of Korea

Co-Chairs
Byungtae Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jian Chen, Tsinghua University, China