I3e 2009 was held in nancy france during september 23-25 hosted by nancy university and inria grand-est at loria. The conference provided scientists andpractitionersofacademia industryandgovernmentwithaforumwherethey presented their latest ndings concerning application of e-business e-services and e-society and the underlying technology to support these applications. The 9th ifip conference on e-business e-services and e-society sponsored by ifip wg 6.1. Of technical committees tc6 in cooperation with tc11 and tc8 represents the continuation of previous events held in zurich switzerland in 2001 lisbon portugal in 2002 sao paulo brazil in 2003 toulouse france in 2004 poznan poland in 2005 turku finland in 2006 wuhan china in 2007 and tokyo japan in 2008. The call for papers attracted papers from 31 countries from the ve con- nents. As a result the i3e 2009 programo ered 12 sessions of full-paper pres- tations. The 31 selected papers cover a wide and important variety of issues in e-business e-servicesande-society including security trust andprivacy ethical and societal issues business organization provision of services as software and software as services and others. Extended versions of selected papers submitted to i3e 2009 will be published in the international journal of e-adoption and in ais transactions on enterprise systems. In addition a 500-euros prize was awarded to the authors of the best paper selected by the program comm- tee. We thank all authors who submitted...
