This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Workshop on E-Business, WEB 2008, held in Paris, France, on December 13, 2008. As a pre-ICIS workshop, it provided an open forum for e-business researchers and practitioners to share research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, and map out major challenges with regard to the design of e-business systems.

The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 31 full papers and 30 research-in-progress papers which were accepted for presentation at the workshop from a large number of submissions. The topics covered are electronic markets, electronic services, radio frequency identification, service-oriented architectures, virtual communities, and Web intelligence.

17 papers presented Carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 31 full papers and 30 research-in-progress papers The topics covered are electronic markets, electronic services, radio frequency identification, service-oriented architectures, virtual communities, and Web intelligence

Inhalt
Electronic Markets.- IDEM: A Prediction Market for Idea Management.- Understanding Dynamic Competitive Technology Diffusion in Electronic Markets.- Electronic Services.- Examining Agencies' Satisfaction with Electronic Record Management Systems in e-Government: A Large-Scale Survey Study.- Practical Security of Large-Scale Elections: An Exploratory Case Study of Internet Voting in Estonia.- Situational Effects on the Usage Intention of Mobile Games.- Radio Frequency Identification.- Modelling and Simulation of National Electronic Product Code Network Demonstrator Project.- Benefit Analyses of Technologies for Automatic Identification to Be Implemented in the Healthcare Sector.- Service-oriented Architectures.- An Exploratory Study of Risk Factors for Implementing Service-Oriented IS Projects.- Cloud-Based DSS and Availability Context: The Probability of Successful Decision Outcomes.- Do Clouds Compute? A Framework for Estimating the Value of Cloud Computing.- Virtual Communities.- Analyzing Members' Motivations to Participate in Role-Playing and Self-Expression Based Virtual Communities.- Evolution of Virtual Communities.- The Future of Professional Communities of Practice.- Web Intelligence.- A Feature-ReinforcementBased Approach for Supporting Poly-Lingual Category Integration.- On Logic and Standards for Structuring Documents.- Patent Analysis for Supporting Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Prediction: A Data Mining Approach.- Use of Ontology to Support Concept-Based Text Categorization.