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Since the initial IEEE sponsored International Conference on E-Business Engineering in 2004, the conference and its related community of supporters has continued to grow. This is because this conference meets a distinctive need, focusing on E-business technology and application related problems, research and solutions from both academic and industry perspectives. Neither the main academically focused computer science research conferences, nor the business school oriented Information Systems Management research conferences have the same clarity of focus on the engineering and application of e-business systems. Since its inception, the ICEBE has been sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (http://tab.computer.org/tcec/). The sponsorship from the IEEE TCEC has substantially helped the ICEBE to increase its visibility, recognition and impact.

While ICEBE is truly an international conference, the conference steering committee has strategically decided to site the conference in Greater China, with some of the very top tier research universities providing the location for the conference (Tsinghua University, Fudan University, University of Hong Kong, and now Xi'an Jiaotong University). This has given participants from outside of China the opportunity to have first hand experience with the explosion of E-business related technology and application development in both academia and industry in Greater China. It has also provided the opportunity for researchers and leading industry practitioners across Greater China to meet one another, and to share their work with an international audience.