The Third International Conference on E-commerce and Web Technology
(EC-Web 2002) was held in conjunction with the DEXA 02 in
Aix-en-Provence, France. This conference, first held in Greenwich,
United Kingdom in 2000, is now in its third year and is very well
established. As in the two previous years, it served as a forum bringing
together researchers from academia and commercial developers from
industry to discuss the current state of the art in E-commerce and web
technology. Inspirations and new ideas emerged from intensive
discussions during formal sessions and social events. Keynote addresses,
research presentations, and discussions during the conference helped to
further develop the exchange of ideas among the researchers, developers,
and practitioners who attended. The conference attracted more than 100
submissions and each paper was reviewed by at least three program
committee members. The program committee selected 40 papers for
presentation and publication, a task which was not easy due to the high
quality of the submitted papers. We would like to express our thanks to
our colleagues who helped to put together the technical program: the
program committee members and external reviewers for their timely and
rigorous reviews of the papers, and the organizing committee for their
help in the administrative work and support. We owe special thanks to
Gabriela Wagner and Maria Schweikert for always being available when
their helping hand was needed.