ArrangementDeadline
Submission deadline for track proposalNovember 3rd, 2024
Easychair system open for submissionNovember 10th, 2024
Submission deadline for full manuscriptJanuary 12th, 2025
Acceptance announcementMarch 12th, 2025
Deadline for registrationApril 2nd, 2025
Conference dateJune 6-8th, 2025

LATEST NEWS

2024.5.18

Conference program(WHICEB2024)has been released.

2024.4.21

Schedule of WHICEB2024 at a Glance is available online.

2024.3.5

Submission review results were sent on March 5th, and the email was sent to the corresponding author’s mailbox.

The 24th Wuhan International Conference on E-business(WHICEB2025)

An AIS Affiliated Conference

  • Conference Theme: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Management Transformation

Guangzhou, P. R. China, June 6-8, 2025

The Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB) series is an affiliated conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). which has been held successfully since the year of 2000, serving as an annual academic conference for improvement and development of global e-business research, academic exchange, and cooperation. In the coming year of 2025, we will be holding the 24th conference with the theme of ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence and Management Transformation’.
Big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain Technology (namely the ABCD Technology) are stimulating a new round of business innovation in the fields of manufacturing, business, education and personal life. Generative artificial intelligence(GAI), as the core force of this round of technological revolution, is reshaping management thinking and practice in unprecedented ways. Closely integrated with management transformation in a firm, it has jointly opened a new window in the digital economy. This integration not only enhances the synergistic effect between digitization and intelligence but also introduces generative AI and data insights as new growth engines beyond the traditional growth model driven by human labor and financial capital. This has spawned new business models and management rules, further expanding the digital and intelligence enabled application boundaries in industry.
WHICEB2025 will be held from June 6th to 8th, 2025. This conference will stimulate the vigorous development of academic research and enterprise practices by bringing together E-business, information technology in digitalized and intelligentized situation, and new ideas and discoveries in smart service, intellengence marketing and digital operation transformation. Scholars in e-commerce, information systems, marketing, strategic management and public management home or abroad are welcome to participate in the conference. The annual conference aims to show innovative scientific research results in the business and economic fields enabled by artificial intelligence, promote interdisciplinary research findings, and share the experience of different countries and regions.English will be the formal language at the conference.
World-class scholars in e-business field will be invited to give keynote speeches, workshops on different topics will be organized together with academic institutions located within China or abroad, Doctor consortium will be held at the conference, active youth scholars will be invited to give an individual speech at different sessions, more enriching activities will be organized at the conference.

Proceedings Publication

Conference proceedings from 2003-2021 have been listed in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science/Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH, the former Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings®, ISTP).

Conference proceedings from 2023 has been published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), and been indexed by EI Compendex, CPCI and Scopus index.

The proceedings from 2011 will also be available at AIS eLibrary.

News: The proceedings of WHICEB2024 have been published. A free access to the online version will be ready for a period of 4 weeks, from May 27 until June 30, 2024.

Part I:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60264-1

Part II: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60260-3

Part III: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-60324-2

Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs

Jing Zhao, Professor, School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences , Wuhan , China, zhao5563@outlook.com 

Juergen Seitz, Professor, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim, Germany, seitz@dhbw-heidenheim.de

Doug Vogel, Professor, AIS President 2012-2013, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, isdoug@hit.edu.cn

Organizing Committee Chairs 

Yao Zhang, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences ,  orangeyao@126.com

Wencong Ma, Professor, Guangdong University of Technology

Program Committee Chairs

Weiguo (Patrick) Fan, Professor, University of Iowa, U.S.A., weiguo-fan@uiowa.edu

Zhen Zhu, Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, zhuzhen2008@gmail.com

Xiaojie Wu, Professor, Guangdong University of Technology xiaojie_wu@163.com

Publicity chair & Proceedings Editor 

Yiliu (Paul) Tu , Professor, University of Calgary, Canada, paultu@ucalgary.ca

Maomao Chi, Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan,  chimaomao@aliyun.com

Session Chairs

Kanliang Wang, Professor, Renmin University, China  kanliang.wang@gmail.com

Jinghua Xiao, Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, China  lnsxjh@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Rong Du, Professor, Xidian University, China  durong@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Xiangbin Yan, Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Yi Jiang, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan  wuhanjoey@163.com

Conference Hosts

School of Economics and Management of China University of Geosciences
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim, Germany

Organizers

Co-organizers

The Association for Information Systems(AIS)
China Association for Information Systems (CNAIS)
The China Information Economics Society
Wuhan University of Communication

Sponsoring Journals

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Electronic Commerce Research
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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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Electronic Markets
internet research
Internet Research
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Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
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International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations
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Journal of Information & Knowledge Management
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Journal of Systems and Information Technology
About WHICEB

The annual Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB) is an AIS affiliated conference which cover e-business related topics. Wuhan International Conference on E-Business holds annually in May, and is widely recognized in the region and beyond as an excellent and fascinating academic conference.

Contact Us

WHICEB Secretary

Jing Wang

School of Economics and Management China University of Geosciences
Center for International Cooperation on E-business(CICEB)

whiceb2015@vip.163.com 

whiceb@aliyun.com

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