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Fwd: [AISWorld] ECOWS 2011 - Call for Papers
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] ECOWS 2011 - Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:52:19 +0100 Von: Gianluigi Zavattaro <zavattar(a)cs.unibo.it> An: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ================================================================ ECOWS 2011: The 9th European Conference on Web Services September 14-16, 2011 Lugano, Switzerland http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR RESEARCH, INDUSTRY, AND PHD SYMPOSIUM PAPERS* Abstract submission: April 11, 2011 Paper submission: April 15, 2011 ================================================================ The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference on the advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. The ECOWS 2011 conference will include invited speakers, presentations of contributed research papers and an industrial track with the participation of top researchers from industry. ECOWS 2011 will also include a PhD symposium and satellite workshops. ---------- Background ---------- The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems that share very little with it. Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely coupled systems. When applications are developed with service-oriented architectures, they can evolve more easily during their lifespan and adapt better to changing or even unpredictable environments. Services today can be implemented such that they are discovered and invoked dynamically using non-proprietary mechanisms. Such services are developed and deployed in a black-box manner. This is of particular importance from a business perspective since services are implemented in a variety of technologies. Essential is agreement on integration technology and consensus has emerged in today's middleware market: Customers want to use Web technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators, developers, and providers need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective development and use of dependable services and service-oriented applications. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ The ECOWS 2011 program committee seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of Web Services, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and computing. Topics of interest to the Research and Industry Tracks include, but are not limited to, the following: - Business Process Management and Web Services - Cloud Services Management and Composition using Web Services - Dynamic and Adaptive Web Services - Economics Models and Web Services - Enterprise Architecture and Web Services - Emerging Trends of Service Composition and Mashups - Experience reports of novel applications of Web Services in Health, Commerce, Finance, Telecom, Scientific Computing and other domains - Service modeling, service-oriented analysis and design - Formal Methods for Web Services - Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications - Identity and Access Management using Web Services - Mobile Web Services - Model-Driven Web Service Engineering - Next Generation Web Services Middleware and Service Repositories - Service quality and service interface design guidelines - RESTful Web Services - Self-Organizing Service Oriented Architectures - Semantic Web Services - Service Level Agreements for Web services - Service-Oriented Business Collaboration - SOA Governance and Web Services - Social Web Services - Web Services for Grids - Web Services in Service-Oriented Environments - Web Services Life-Cycles - Web Services Security and Privacy It should be noted that papers on existing product descriptions or product marketing information are not within the scope of the ECOWS 2011 Industrial Track. ------------- PhD Symposium ------------- The ECOWS 2011 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the areas addressed by the ECOWS conference. The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedback and advices on their research activity. PhD students working in any area addressed by the ECOWS conference can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not exceed 6 pages formatted according to the IEEE proceedings guidelines. The papers should be authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor. Submissions must be sent by email to the symposium chair Wolf Zimmermann (wolf.zimmermann(a)informatik.uni-halle.de). --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted via EasyChair. Research papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecows11 Industry-Track papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecows2011it Submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE proceedings guidelines and the templates available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and they should not exceed 8 pages. A paper might be accepted as a full paper (8 pages), short paper (4 pages) or as a poster (2 pages abstract in the proceedings). The conference proceedings are expected to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press as in previous years. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Deadlines for research papers: * Abstract submission: Monday, April 11, 2011 * Papers due: Friday, April 15, 2011 * Notifications: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 * CR versions due: Tuesday, July 1, 2011 * ECOWS 2011 conference: September 14-16, 2011 Deadlines for industrial papers: * Industrial Papers: Saturday, April 30, 2011 * Notifications: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 * Camera Ready version due: Tuesday, July 1, 2011 * ECOWS 2011 conference: September 14-16, 2011 Deadlines for PhD Symposium papers: * Paper submission: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 15, 2011 * Camera Ready: Sunday, July 31, 2011 * ECOWS 2011 conference: September 14-16, 2011 Deadlines for workshop proposals: * Workshop proposal submission: Friday, April 1, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 15, 2011 ------------ Organization ------------ General Chair: * Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Program Chairs: * Ulf Schreier, Univ. of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Industry Track Chair: * Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Workshop Chair: * Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Ph.D. Symposium Chair: * Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany ECOWS 2011 Program Committee: * Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, the Netherlands * Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands * Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Sami Bhiri, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland * Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA * Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy * Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Juergen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany * Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria * Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand * Christopher Giblin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland * Claude Godart, Universiy of Lorraine, France * Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland * Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK * Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden * Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Universitaet Jena, Germany * Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany * Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Peep Küngas, University of Tartu, Estonia * Frank Leymann, Universität Stuttgart, Germany * Welf Löwe, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Radu Mateescu, INRIA, France * Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany * Dirk Neumann, Universität Freiburg, Germany * Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany * Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain * Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland * George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain * Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany * Wolfgang Reisig, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin, Germany * Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland * Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Jim Webber, Neo Technology, UK * Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA * Ümit Yalçınalp, Adobe Systems, USA * Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland * Wolf Zimmermann, Universität Halle, Germany ECOWS Steering Committee: * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands * Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland * George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research, USA ------- Contact ------- Conference Website: http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/ecows2011 For any inquiries please contact the local organizers at: chair(a)nospam.ecows2011.inf.usi.ch or the program chairs at: program(a)nospam.ecows2011.inf.usi.ch _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] ICSOC 2011 - Call for Panel Proposals
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] ICSOC 2011 - Call for Panel Proposals Datum: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:11:49 +0100 Von: Bedini, Ivan (Ivan) <ivan.bedini(a)alcatel-lucent.com> An: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Call for Panel Proposals --------------------- The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing ICSOC 2011 December 5 - 8 2011, Paphos, Cyprus Description ----------- ICSOC 2011 plans to host a number of high-quality panel discussions. Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues related to conference topics. All panels should be lively, provocative, informative, and especially spark discussion on a specific topic of interest to the service research community. All submissions which are in the scope of the Call for Papers and satisfy the previously stated criteria are welcome. Panel sessions are not conceived as mere presentations of papers but should instead seek to engage fellow panel participants and the audience in discussions. Each panel will last 1 hour and 20 minutes and will be composed of a moderator and three or four panelists. Ample time should be planned for panel/audience interactive discussion. Proposal Submission ------------------- Proposals should be 3-4 pages in length and should contain: 1) An appropriate title for the panel, if possible formulated as a provocative question 2) A general abstract that clearly indicates: - A description of topic(s) and themes likely to be included in the panel discussion - How the panel topic relates and contributes to the conference themes - The pro and con arguments of the proposed submission topic - Why the panel topic is of interest to the audience - How the panel will seek to include audience participation 3) For the moderator, and If available for the prospective panelists, please provide: - Full name, affiliation, and status of confirmation - Short biography - Brief abstract 4) Any special requirements from the conference organizers Panel proposals in PDF or plain ASCII format must be submitted to the Panel Track of the conference submission system at https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2011/. All submissions will undergo peer review and will be selected by the Panel Program Committee. Please note that a proposal for a panel session is a commitment to organize it should it be accepted. Important Dates --------------- Panel proposal submission: April 20, 2011 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2011 Submission of final panel abstract: June 5, 2011 Panel Chairs ------------ Youakim Badr, Pennsylvania State University, USA Francisco Curbera, IBM TJ Watson, USA -- Ivan Bedini Bell Labs Ireland Tel: +353 1 8864525 email: ivan.bedini(a)alcatel-lucent.com -- Ivan Bedini Bell Labs Ireland Tel: +353 1 8864525 email: ivan.bedini(a)alcatel-lucent.com -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Administrator: wi-admin(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Konfiguration: https://www.lists.uni-karlsruhe.de/sympa/info/wi

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Fwd: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2011: Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology"
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2011: Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology" Datum: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:14:11 +0100 Von: Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel <kurbel.bi(a)euv-frankfurt-o.de> An: <AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org> CALL FOR PAPERS - 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology" August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA http://www.amcis2011.aisnet.org/ ********************************************************** Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved from large monolithic systems to more and more fragmented systems distributing just about any aspect of a system: functions, processes, data, hardware and infrastructure. This change has gone hand in hand with the incorporation of more and more business functionality into ERP. Starting from material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), the financial and human resources functions as well as executive information systems and eventually long-term strategic planning support for senior management have been included. These developments have made an ERP system "the" core information system of an organization -- and the technological backbone that other information systems need to collaborate with. ERP related functionality such as supply chain management (SCM ), customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier relationship management (SRM) is either integrated, embedded or closely coupled with an ERP system. Software, hardware and networking technology has enabled the increased importance of ERP systems, but it also posed technological and managerial challenges. In contrast to the early ERP monoliths, we nowadays have distributed architectures -- both conventional in-house architectures such as client-server and service oriented architectures (SOA) as well as externally hosted architectures used by application-service-providing (ASP) and software-on-demand solutions. With the appearance of mobile commerce, software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches and cloud computing, additional challenges have emerged. Technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) have opened up new opportunities for an organization to act and react in real-time. RFID, smart items and the "Internet of things" impose new requirements on ERP systems, such as being capable of context-aware information processing. For the new technologies to be successfully implemented, security issues need to be resolved and a satisfactory level of trust in the technologies has to be created. The major vendors' inability to generate significant revenue from software-on-demand solutions indicates that businesses are not ready yet to adopt out-of-house ERP solutions on a large-scale basis. The hurdle is likely to be even higher when anonymous providers of infrastructure and services come into the game, as is the case with cloud computing. Organizations seem to be hesitant about having their mission-critical business processes run somewhere out in a "cloud" and maintaining their core business data in a nirvana. The rationale of this minitrack is exploration of new technologies that can further enhance enterprise resource planning. We invite papers that pursue a constructionist approach to information systems development, following an engineering-like or design-science research style. Papers presenting the development of prototypes as a proof of concept are welcome. Technology-oriented papers should give consideration to the business value of the proposed approaches or solutions. *Suggested Topics* ·Architectures for ERP and related business information systems ·ERP systems based on service oriented architectures (SOA) ·Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for ERP and related areas ·Orchestrating an ERP system from web services/enterprise services ·ERP on demand for small and medium-size enterprises ·Federated ERP systems, standardization and collaboration issues ·ERP and cloud computing ·Impact of virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service on ERP ·Integrating RFID solutions with ERP ·Impact of the "Internet of things" on future ERP systems ·Integrating legacy ERP systems with new components using state-of-the-art technologies ·Mobile ERP and related areas such as mobile SCM, mobile CRM and mobile SRM ·Security issues and trust in new technologies for enterprise resource planning *Paper Submissions* Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2011 *Minitrack Co-chairs* Karl E. Kurbel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Grosse Scharrnstr. 59, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; e-mail: kurbel.bi(a)europa-uni.de <mailto:kurbel.bi@europa-uni.de> Jorge C. Marx Gomez, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerlaender Heerstr. 114-118, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany; e-mail: jorge.marx.gomez(a)uni-oldenburg.de <mailto:jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] EUD4Services 2011 - Call for papers
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] EUD4Services 2011 - Call for papers Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:40:50 +0100 From: Florian Daniel <daniel(a)disi.unitn.it> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org EUD4Services 2011 2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services - Methodologies, Tools, and Evaluations www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011 <http://www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011> will be held in Torre Canne (Brindisi), Italy on June 7, 2011 in conjunction with IS-EUD’2011 Third International Symposium on End-User Development http://www.iseud.net <http://www.iseud.net/> The establishment of the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm in professional software development is opening new challenging environments for the End-User Development (EUD) community. SOA has produced a large number of reusable software components, which can be linked and organised into new applications to satisfy specific business and personal needs. If, on the one hand, SOA provides promising tools for the EUD agenda, so far the SOA approach has been characterised by a very technical attitude with little interest to the final user of the resulting applications. Services have been designed to perform software functionalities which can be connected to each other to perform complex tasks, yet the responsibility for composition and deployment was delegated to expert programmers, who are also assumed to be in charge of designing the interface between services and their users. The uptake of EUD within the SOA paradigm is hampered by a set of emerging issues, including intrinsic difficulties stemming from the complexity of technology and distributed nature of computations. The 2nd International Workshop on End User Development for Services focuses on the issues encountered when people who are not software developers attempt to create and compose software services, and on approaches and theories aiming to support such activities. The aim is to establish a community of academics and practitioners working in various fields, including software services, human-computer interaction, software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work and innovation management, and facilitate the production of a coherent body of work related to this area. We expect to generate a debate on the potential of SOA for non-technical developers in both professional and personal lives by exploring the challenges of opening up SOA technologies to end-users and ideas on how to facilitate their usage and dissemination. WORKSHOP TOPICS The first workshop devised a number of interesting research topics which foster and guide the focus of the second workshop. The resultant topics for the second workshop include: (1) Studies of organisational and societal practices involving the development of service-based software systems; (2) Cognitive and behavioural studies aimed at establishing theories and models related to people attempting to design software services and service-based applications; (3) Model-informed approaches or tools aiming to facilitate end-user development and design of software services; (4) Evaluation and comparative studies of tools, approaches and theoretical models in the area of end user development for services. A subset of the larger questions and issues we want to address during the workshop are the following: * What are the drivers and obstacles to SOA based EUD? * Is EUD for services a specific branch of EUD or just an application? * What is different about software services compared to conventional software, component-based software and distributed software? * To what extend are existing methods and tools for supporting end user developers of conventional software applicable to software services? * Which cognitive models of design are applicable to the design of software services? * Which methods are appropriate for studying the practices of developing software services? * What are the suitable engineering principles and approaches for understanding, designing, developing, and evolving software services by people who are not software professionals? * How can we facilitate uptake of EUD4Services? PAPER SUBMISSION The workshop welcomes position papers from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in the fields of EUD and Software Services. The position papers must not exceed 6 pages following the Springer format guidelines and be submitted in PDF format. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of two members of the international programme committee. The proceedings and a report of the workshop will be published on the workshop website. Editing a special issue of a journal will be considered depending on the coherence and quality of the submitted materials and workshop proceedings. Please submit papers to: workshop(a)eud4services.org <mailto:workshop@eud4services.org> IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: Feb 28, 2011 Paper submission: March 15, 2011 Decision to authors: March 24, 2011 Camera ready: March 31, 2011 (Strict deadline) 2nd EUD4Services Workshop: 7th June 2011 ORGANISERS Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento, Italy Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Alexander Brändle, FHDW, Germany Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands Christian Zirpins, KIT, Germany Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy Fabio Paternò, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy Jill Cao, Oregon State University, USA Joëlle Coutaz, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Neil Maiden, City University , UK Scott Fleming, Oregon State University, USA Steffen Goebel, SAP Research, Germany Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT Abdallah Namoun, University of Manchester, UK Usman Wajid, University of Manchester, UK Alberto Battocchi, University of Trento, Italy CONTACTS e-mail: workshop(a)eud4services.org <mailto:workshop@eud4services.org> website: www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011 <http://www.eud4services.org/Workshop2011>

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Extended Deadline: CAiSE Workshop on Ontology-Driven IS Engineering
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Extended Deadline: CAiSE Workshop on Ontology-Driven IS Engineering Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:10:27 +0000 From: Sergio de Cesare <sergio.decesare(a)gmail.com> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org *** Call for Papers *** *** DEADLINE EXTENDED to 25th FEBRUARY 2011 *** 3rd International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering co-located with CAiSE 2011 (London, 20-24 June 2011) http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrssc/events/odise2011 THEME Information systems (IS) Engineering has progressed considerably over the decades. Numerous advances, such as improved development methodologies, languages that enforce recognised software engineering principles and sophisticated CASE tools, have helped to increase the quality of IS. Regardless of such progress many IS Engineering projects remain unsuccessful (e.g., fail to meet stakeholder requirements, run excessively over budget and far beyond the deadlines initially scheduled). As the literature points out, most of these problems are due to (1) the difficulties of capturing and knowing the business requirements of a living organisational system, (2) realising such requirements in software designs and implementations and (3) maintaining an effective level of synchronicity between the needs of the living system and its information system. The causes underlying such problems are diverse and difficult to identify. Nonetheless it is plausible to assume that at the heart of such IS Engineering problems is the difficulty to conceptualise an organisational system and its real-world problem domains. Ontologies are rapidly becoming mainstream within IS engineering as a means to create conceptual models of the real world that are both formalised and semantically accurate. Whilst ontologies have been in recent times widely researched by the Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence communities, limited research has been conducted on how ontologies can help to shape and improve IS Engineering in terms of both the development process and the conceptual/physical artefacts produced. Ontologies have the potential to positively drive all phases of the IS lifecycle, from business modelling to implementation, and contribute to shape Information Systems Engineering so as to more effectively evolve software solutions that align with organisational requirements and address the issues emerging from large complex families of IT systems. This workshop is aimed at promoting, investigating and discussing Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE, pronounced odyssey) by bringing together researchers and industrial practitioners interested is ways in which ontologies can impact IS Engineering. The scope of ODISE includes broad areas such as: (1) Foundational ontological principles and paradigms that can influence novel or existing modelling/programming languages; (2) Improved traceability between phases and modelled artefacts via ontologies; and (3) Ways in which ontologies drive or refine typical development phases and the lifecycle as a whole. More specifically topics include, but are not limited to: - Ontology as a means to inform the process of gathering requirements. - Ontology as a means to inform architecture development directly from requirements specifications. - Ontology as a means to inform the software design directly from the architecture specification. - Ontology as a means to model the software development process and the software product itself. - Ontologies as run-time artefacts or to inform the design of run-time artefacts. - The role of ontology reasoning in the software engineering process. - The role of ontologies in model-driven development. - Philosophical ontologies (3D vs. 4D) and their role in IS development - Comparison of different ODISE mechanisms (e.g. domain-specific modelling, profiling, etc.). - Comparison of the role of foundational ontologies vs. domain ontologies in ODISE. - Ontology driven development of service software. - Methodological issues for ODISE. - Problems of semantic mismatch between traditional IS modelling paradigms, approaches, techniques, etc. and ontological modelling. - Ontology-based development/modelling/programming languages. The ODISE workshop is aimed at promoting discussion among the workshop participants, identifying key research areas of Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering and fostering future research collaborations in the form of joint research projects and/or papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: Extended to 25 February 2011 Notification of acceptance: 7 March 2011 Camera-ready copies: 28 March 2011 Workshop: 20 June 2011 SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odise2011 For any questions regarding submission please contact either Sergio de Cesare (sergio.decesare(a)brunel.ac.uk) or Frederik Gailly (frederik.gailly(a)vub.ac.be). Submissions can be in the form of full research papers or experience reports (up to 10 pages) or short position papers (up to 6 pages). Accepted research papers will be published in the CAiSE 2011 workshop proceedings with Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Please note that experience reports and position papers will only be published on the workshop Web site only. ORGANISERS Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University, U.K.) Frederik Gailly (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Grant Holland (NuTech Solutions, USA) Mark Lycett (Brunel University, U.K.) Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions, U.K.) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] [Final CFP] Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011)
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] [Final CFP] Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:53:45 +0000 From: Axel Korthaus <Axel.Korthaus(a)vu.edu.au> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Final Call For Papers Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" 29.8.-2.9. 2011, Helsinki, Finland http://www.ieee-edoc.org/ & http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/ ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The IEEE EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2011 will be the fifteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, enterprise architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government. Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies. The resulting applications also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises. In recent years, technologies related to enterprise architecture and business processes management have become some of the top areas of interest in enterprise computing. Today, the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems create challenges that range from goal and policy modeling through functional and non-functional requirements to the deployment and maintenance of solutions in and across customer businesses. The IEEE EDOC Conference emphasizes a holistic view of enterprise applications engineering and management, fostering integrated approaches that can address and relate processes, people and technology. Openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and objects are important themes. IEEE EDOC 2011 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as papers on enterprise computing industry experiences. Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address hot topics and issues in the domain. TOPICS The IEEE EDOC conference seeks high-quality contributions addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved in building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. Suggested areas include, but are not limited to -- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Application Architecture - Enterprise architecture frameworks - Enterprise architecture analysis, assessment and prediction - Enterprise ontologies Model based approaches - Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven software development - Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL) - Reference architecture based approaches - Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues Service oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA) - Evolution of service engineering specifications - Semantics-based service engineering - Enterprise service bus approaches - Event driven architectures Service oriented architecture governance - Service policies, contract definitions and enforcement - Security policy definition and description languages - Security policy interoperability Business process management (BPM) - Business process models and metamodels - Business process monitoring and intelligence - Dynamically configurable business processes - Cross-organizational business processes Business analytics - Modeling and Predictive analytics - Data-Driven Strategy - Collaboration platforms Business rules - Business rules languages and inference systems - Business rules components - Rule driven business process engines Information integration and interoperability - Business object model methodologies and approaches - Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration - Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing Networked Enterprise Solutions - Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture - Virtual organizations, including multiagent system support - Digital ecosystems - Trust management Enterprise applications deployment and governance - Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement - Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS) - Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems - Information assurance - Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing State of the art in distributed enterprise applications - Industry specific solutions, e.g. for aerospace, automotive, finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications - Research and public sector collaboration, e.g. in e-health, e-government, e-science - Social information and innovation networks Enterprise Computing Infrastructures - Autonomic computing and self-managing platforms - Cloud infrastructure - Mobile enterprise services SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Two types of paper submissions will be accepted: a) scientific research papers, and b) industry experience reports or case studies. Scientific research papers should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be evaluated for scientific or technical contribution, originality, appropriateness and significance. Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of enterprise computing technology in practice, contribute important feedback about the state of practice and how current research is applied, and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity. All papers should be limited to 10 pages in length. All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system (hosted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2011). All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION The authors of a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue (details will be announced later). In previous years, selected papers from EDOC have been published in Springer's Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), and International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS). A special issue with selected and extended papers of EDOC 2010 will appear at the Enterprise Information Systems journal (published by Taylor & Francis, with an impact factor of 2.809 in JCR 2009). KEYNOTES The EDOC 2011 programme will feature a number of keynote lectures, including presentations by * Prof. Terry Halpin - a Principal Scientist at LogicBlox (headquartered in Atlanta, USA) and a Professor at INTI International University (Malaysia) * Prof. Michael P. Papazoglou - the chair of Computer Science and the director of the ERISS at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands * Dr. Richard Hull - research manager in Business Informatics, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center WORKSHOPS Workshops complement IEEE EDOC's main scientific program with presentations and discussions of both mature and preliminary project results, ideas, experiences, and knowledge in a way that is more interactive and more focused than paper sessions in the main conference program. To foster this interactivity and focus, workshops target a narrower range of topics. Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and included in the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and the IEEE Xplore. You can find short summaries of the workshops below. Please check the detailed scope and submission instructions at each workshop page. * 2nd International Workshop on Models and Model-driven Methods for Service Engineering (3M4SE 2011) The 2nd International Workshop on Models and Model-driven Methods for Service Engineering aims to discuss how service engineering, founded on advances in modeling and model-driven methods, can contribute to the alignment of business and software systems. * 5th International Workshop on Advances in Quality of Service Management (AQuSerM 2011) Service Level Management (SLM) is the process of managing the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by clients and offered by providers. AQuSerM is concerned with recent developments in QoS management: the monitoring of widely distributed services, particularly new paradigms of enterprise system (SOA and the Cloud), dynamic adaptation strategies and the necessity for more sophisticated prediction and diagnostic analysis techniques. * 1st International Workshop on Dynamic Business-to-Business Collaboration (DynaCo 2011) The Workshop on Dynamic B2B Collaboration aims at bringing together contributions to address the complex challenges of collaboration between organizations from business, conceptual, and technological points of view. * 4th International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes (EVL-BP 2011) The International Workshop on Evolutionary Business Processes focuses on evolutionary approaches in business process management to support the change of software systems during their life cycle. * 3rd International Workshop on Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE 2011) The goal of the SoEA4EE workshop is to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and the management of service-oriented enterprise architectures and the software systems supporting them. * 6th Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2011) Workshop The TEAR workshop series objective is to bring together communities of Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers and practitioners and to identify future directions for EA research with special focus on service oriented paradigms. * 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) The 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) aims to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions. IMPORTANT DATES Potential new workshop proposals: 6.12.2010 Workshop acceptance notifications: 13.12.2010 Paper abstract submission (optional): 15.2.2011 Full paper submission due: 28.2.2011 Workshop paper submissions: 15.3.2011 Conference paper acceptance notifications: 27.4.2011 Workshops paper acceptance notifications: 7.5.2011 All camera-ready papers due: 1.6.2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES General Chair Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Program Chairs Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Chi-Hung Chi, School of Software, Tsinghua University, China Workshops Chair Georg Grossmann, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia Finance Chair Toni Ruokolainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Publicity Chairs Axel Korthaus, Victoria University, Australia Alex Liu, California State University, USA Local Organization Sini Ruohomaa, Chair, University of Helsinki, Finland Yiyun Shen, University of Helsinki, Finland Steering Committee Marten J. 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Sparrow, Jr., MITRE Corporation, USA Marcus Spies, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Maarten Steen, Novay, The Netherlands Gerald Weber, University of Auckland, New Zealand Program Committee See http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/committees *Dr Axel Korthaus* *Senior Lecturer* School of Management and Information Systems (Incorporating The Victoria Graduate School of Business) Faculty of Business and Law Victoria University G429, Footscray Park Campus PO Box 14428 Melbourne Vic 8001, Australia Phone 61 3 9919 5313 Fax 61 3 9919 4272 Email axel.korthaus(a)vu.edu.au <mailto:axel.korthaus@vu.edu.au> Web www.vu.edu.au/buslaw <http://www.vu.edu.au/buslaw> *cid:image001.png@01CB34B8.48CB9740* Follow us on: facebook-signature <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melbourne-Australia/Faculty-of-Business-and-L…>twitter-signature <http://twitter.com/victoriauninews> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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Fwd: [computational.science] EIDWT 2011 - Call For Papers - three weeks before submission deadline
by Gustaf Neumann 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] EIDWT 2011 - Call For Papers - three weeks before submission deadline Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:50 +0800 From: robert(a)grid.chu.edu.tw To: <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> ********************************************************* EIDWT 2011 at Tirana, Albania. Submission deadline: March 10, 2011. ========================================================= *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The 2-nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2011) http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~eidwt2011/ in conjunction with The 14-th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2011) http://www.takilab.org/conf/nbis/2011/ Polytechnic University of Tirana http://www.upt.al/ Tirana, Albania, September 7 - 9, 2011 =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission Deadline: March 10, 2011 Authors Notification: May 10, 2011 Author Registration: June 10, 2011 Final Manuscript: July 1, 2011 Conference Dates: September 7 - 9, 2011 ============== Aims and Scope ============== The 2-nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2011) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging data technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. In particular, EIDWT-2011 will discuss advances about utilizing and exploiting data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids, Clouds, Crowds, Mashups, Social Networks and/or other Web 2.0 implementations towards a collaborative and collective intelligence approach leading to advancements of virtual organizations and their user communities. This is because, current and future Web and Web 2.0 implementations will store and continuously produce a vast amount of data, which if combined and analyzed through a collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organizational settings and their user communities. Thus, the scope of EIDWT-2011 is to discuss methods and practices (including P2P) which bring various emerging data technologies together to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, annotate and visualize data - made available from various community users - in a meaningful and collaborative for the organization manner. Finally, EIDWT-2011 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions in the area. Topics: Papers should be focused on past, current and emerging methods and/or use of data technologies with a particular focus to collective intelligence. For example: Data Stream, Click stream, Cloud Computing, Crowd Computing, Data Annotation, Data Architecture, Data Capture, Data Clustering/Partitioning, Data Discovery/Management, Data Grids, Data Integration, Data Management and Knowledge Engineering, Data Mashups, Data Query Systems and Languages, Data Push/Notification, Data Scheduling, Data/Text Mining, P2P, Reality Mining, Data Visualization, Emerging Applications, Emerging/Enabling Collaborative Data Technologies, Trust and Security, Web Science, Web 2.0, Ubiquitus Intelligence. The main topic areas include, but are not limited to: o Critical Reviews on Theory and Practices in Collective Intelligence o User Communities/Virtual Organizational Structures and Dynamics o Ad-Hoc Social Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence o Self-organising Systems and Networks o Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents o Data/Text Mining, Reality Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning o Groupware, Social Networks (Web 2.0) o Ontology Management, Semantic Web, Web Services, Multi-Agents o Meta-Data, Annotation, Intra-/Inter Tagging, Inference Engines, Reasoning o Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring o Enabling Technologies (Grids, P2P, Cloud, Crowds, Mashups, etc) o Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications o Web and Ubiquitus Intelligence, Reality Mining o Security, Trust and Reputation, Identity Management and Privacy o Languages, Components, Programs, Knowledge Portals and/or Applications o Developments or future concepts and frameworks in various settings including (but not limited to) construction industry, transportation and other control systems, sensors, smart spaces, disaster management and threat detection, bioinformatics, environmental control, energy consumption control, business, economics, supply-chain management, planning and operations, etc. ========================== PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== Submit a full paper not more than eight pages (Proceedings Manuscript: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can find instructions to format the Proceedings Manuscript, at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/ Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and submit it electronically to the EIDWT-2011 web page: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~eidwt2011/ Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Proceedings of the EIDWT-2011 will be published by Conference Publishing Service. Presented papers at EIDWT-2011 will be considered for publication in several Special Issues in refereed International Journals. ======================================== FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: ======================================== EIDWT-2011 General Co-Chairs Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK E-mail: nik.bessis{at}beds.ac.uk Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain E-mail: fatos.xhafa{at}gmail.com Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan E-mail: barolli{at}fit.ac.jp Web Chair: eliskulla(a)yahoo.com (Elis)

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Fwd: [EDEN-News] EDEN 2011 Annual Conference in Dublin - Registration open
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [EDEN-News] EDEN 2011 Annual Conference in Dublin - Registration open Datum: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:30:57 +0100 Von: EDEN Secretariat <secretariat(a)eden-online.org> An: EDEN News <Eden-News(a)eden-online.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */The Call for Papers has resulted again a great success, over 200 contributions received!/* *Registration is now open! * Online Registration The EDEN Secretariat is taking care of the registration for the 2011 Annual Conference <http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=530>. To read the registration procedure and conditions as well as registration fees arranged, please, visit the Registration menu <http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=540> on the web and use the Online Registration Form to join the event. All attendees (presenting or visiting) are expected to register. The registration fee includes all conference facilities: the Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM, the Book of Abstracts, the Welcome Cocktail, lunches and coffees. Authors of contributions accepted for presentation can benefit from a reduced fee. For each paper, only one reduced author´s fee will be offered. There is again opportunity for *combined* conference registration and membership with a *discounted fee*. Also, group of *more than 3 persons* registering for the event from the same institution can apply for *a special reduced (by 15 %) conference fee*. *Daily fee* is a new possibility which includes all conference materials, lunch and coffees on the day of attendance. *Keynote Speakers* * *Mary McAleese*, President of Ireland * *Sir John Daniel*, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning * *Clare Dillon*, Microsoft Head of Research/University engagement * *Graham Attwell*, Director, Welsh research institute, Pontydysgu (Bridge to Learning), UK and University of Bremen, Institute of Technology and Education, Germany * *Paul Kim*, Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford’s School of Education * *Tony Long*, Director European Policy, WWF (invited) * *Liv Arnesen*, Adventurer, guide, and motivational speaker; Ambassador for the Norwegian Refugee Council (invited) * *Ronan Harris*, Google Europe (invited) The EDEN Anniversary Year 2011 marks the 20th Anniversary of EDEN launched in 1991 in Milton Keynes. The jubilee conference will offer great opportunity for the EDEN community, friends and partners to celebrate and also to draw the balance of the first two decades and look ahead for the prosperous development of ICT supported learning in Europe. The conference is organised in partnership with the US Distance Learning Association, with contributions of their senior Board members in the Europe-US Strategy Session. Conference Venue, Dublin The EDEN 2011 Conference will be organized with a unique constellation of supportive features and collaborating institutions. The host country will be Ireland – for a generation, a symbolic region of Europe for innovation and development, both in technology and the society. The Irish capital, Dublin has very few rivals in Europe for atmosphere, night life, visitor attractions and activities. Social Events The *Conference Dinner* on 21 June, with entertainment, will be organised in the famous Guiness Storehouse <http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx>, designed in the shape of a giant pint of Guiness. The evening includes a guided visit at the end of which, on reaching the head of the pint, the Gravity Bar, you can enjoy the unique spectacular view across Dublin. Dublin Castle *Organised in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology*

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Fwd: [wkwi] Information Systems for a Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (AMCIS 2011 Minitrack, Final CfP, EXTENDED DEADLINE)
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [wkwi] Information Systems for a Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (AMCIS 2011 Minitrack, Final CfP, EXTENDED DEADLINE) Datum: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:09:58 +0100 (CET) Von: Gilbert Fridgen <gilbert.fridgen(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de> Antwort an: postmaster(a)idefix.buva.sowi.uni-bamberg.de An: undisclosed-recipients:; #### Apologies for cross-postings #### CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems (http://amcis2011.aisnet.org) August 4-7, 2011, Detroit, MI, USA TRACK: Information Systems for Sustainability and Global Competitiveness MINITRACK: Information Systems for a Sustainable Management of Natural Resources MINITRACK DESCRIPTION The availability of natural resources (in the following just “resources”) in sufficient quantities and with a cost-effective supply chain is essential not only for western industrial countries but increasingly also for newly industrialized countries. Ensuring access to these resources is a critical factor especially for countries which do not have relevant resources or only small quantities at their disposal. While most resources are – in geological terms – not likely to run out in the short term, the availability of economically and ecologically viable deposits cannot be guaranteed in the future (see e.g. the U.S. Geological Survey 2010). Furthermore, there are highly relevant resources (e.g. special elements required in the semiconductor industry) that are currently mined in or transported through few, politically unstable and/or unreliable regions, or that are under control of few companies. Increased competition can increase the risk, that such resources may be confined due to strategic considerations (e.g. by taxes, export barriers or blockades). According to the European Commission (2010) it takes 9-25 years to open up a new mine. Substitution is often impossible due to physical or economic reasons: There could be no substitute available or employing a new material could require new, costly approval procedures (e.g. in aircraft industry). Consequently, there is a considerable risk of a resources gap. However, most of today’s businesses are not aware of these dependencies. While, for example, design, approval, and production of new types of vehicles or aircraft take many years or even decades, purchasing plans rarely cover more than two years. Decisions on used materials (usually made by engineers) mostly reflect physical attributes and current spot prices. Decision supporting information on the development of availability, reliability, or price of certain resources is missing. Strategically relevant decisions for R&D investments in recycling, remanufacturing or substitution are systematically made too late. Information Systems (IS) can play a central role with regard to the sustainable management of natural resources. They can be used to analyze the dependencies on certain resources by means of parts lists and production plans. The results can be the basis for the subsequent development and valuation of alternative action plans as well as their IS-supported implementation. Moreover, IS can provide decision support not only within one company, but also across the boundaries of firms. Knowing the own dependency on resources does not suffice if a critical supplier lacks a certain chemical catalyst that is not even part of the final product. Collaborative planning within the value chain requires methods to protect data confidentiality (e.g. a trusted third party or secure multiparty computation algorithms). We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including business and information systems engineering, information systems, management, applied computer science, and economics in order to fully incorporate technical and business aspects. We also invite practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their business experiences. The minitrack thereby focuses on but is not limited to the following topics: - IS for measuring the availability of natural resources - IS for forecasting the prices of natural resources - IS for measuring the individual dependency on natural resources (e.g. through data mining) - IS for measuring and managing natural resource risk - Business value of IS for managing natural resources - Collaborative planning through secure multiparty computation - Electronic data interchange to analyze resource dependencies in value chains - IS architectures for the global processing of information on natural resources - IS for remanufacturing and recycling - Optimization of production strategies - Ontologies for resource management - Databases on worldwide raw material deposits - Databases on the geological and/or political stability and reliability of regions - Databases on substitute materials or technologies SUBMISSION SITE http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011 *** UPDATED *** IMPORTANT DATES *** UPDATED *** Deadline for paper submissions: February 28, 2011, 12 a.m. PST Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2011 Final copy due: April 25, 2011 MINITRACK CHAIRS Hans Ulrich Buhl - hans-ulrich.buhl(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de Gilbert Fridgen (primary contact) - gilbert.fridgen(a)wiwi.uni-augsburg.de Andreas Rathgeber - andreas.rathgeber(a)mrm.uni-augsburg.de FIM Research Center Finance& Information Management Institute for Materials Resource Management University of Augsburg Universitätsstraße 12, 86159 Augsburg, Germany TRACK CHAIRS Alan Fisk - Ford Richard Watson - The University of Georgia Marie‐Claude Boudreau - The University of Georgia ______________________________________________________ Dr. Gilbert Fridgen Dipl.-Kfm. Research Center Finance& Information Management Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Buhl University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg ______________________________________________________ Phone: +49 821 598-4849 (Secretariat: -4801) Fax: +49 821 598-4899 mailto:gilbert.fridgen@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de http://www.fim-online.eu/ ______________________________________________________

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Fwd: [computational.science] Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management -- Special Issue on "Cloud Computing, Networking, and Service (CCNS) Management"
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management -- Special Issue on "Cloud Computing, Networking, and Service (CCNS) Management" Datum: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:14:17 +0100 Von: Gregorio Martinez <gregorio(a)um.es> Organisation: University of Murcia (UMU), Spain An: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ========================================================================================================================================== Call for Papers Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10922) Special Issue on "Cloud Computing, Networking, and Service (CCNS) Management" CfP URL: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp-10922… Paper submission date: June 15, 2011 Impact Factor: 1.356 (Q1 in Telecommunications and Q2 in Computer Science, Information Systems), Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters ========================================================================================================================================== Cloud computing, networking, and their related service management including grid computing (as appropriate) have recently emerged out of marketing hype to viable computing/networking tools for reducing infrastructure deployment and service management costs without sacrificing the quality of service/experience (QoS/E). Although the virtualization of computing and networking resources, and their self-organizing interconnection is at the heart of it, the methods/mechanisms/tools that are used to expose (visualization) resources and their utilization (the application programming interfaces of APIs) for developing anything (*) as a service (*aaS) are still ad-hoc and/or proprietary in nature. Security, privacy, and multi-tenancy support requirements add another dimension to the already complex set of Cloud —computing and networking— management problems. This JNSM SI on CCNS management will include invited and referee-recommended papers on the following topics: - Cloud Applications and Services --> Any computing, data-storing, and networking as a service - API for enabling Cloud-based Services --> Public, Private, and Hybrid (toolkit approach) APIs - Virtualization (of any and all resources) and Hosting --> Virtualization of Clients/Desktop, Applications, Services, and Databases --> Distributed Intra- and Inter-Domain Storage/FileSystems/Database --> Distributed Intra- and Inter-Domain Scheduling of resources --> Resources Mobility and Multi-tenancy - Protocols and Interoperability --> Adaptive Protocols for Generic Cloud Services --> Inter-Domain Service-Specific Adaptive Protocols - Private, Public, Community, Hybrid Clouds --> Addressability, Networking Extensions, Service Quality Agreement - Cloud Service Logging and Monitoring --> Including Auditing and Verification - Soft and Hard Privacy and Security for Cloud-based Services --> Process, Practice and Mechanisms - Risk, Resiliency, and SLA (RRS) of Services in Clouds --> Risk-tolerance, MMTF, MMTR, etc. for Components and Apps/Services (End-to-End) - Cloud Service and Infrastructure Management --> Including Visualization, Automation, Debugging and Diagnosis - Reports from CCNS management Experiments and Filed Deployments --> University, Consortia, Industry/ Field Trials, etc. - Mobility Management in Cloud Computing --> Cloud service hosting mobility and service migration --> Elastic computing using mobile codes - Policy management in Cloud computing --> Regulations and export control of using Cloud computing Important dates =============== Paper submission date: June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2011 Final paper due: April 15, 2012 Publication date: September 2012 Guest Editors =============== - Bhumip Khasnabish, ZTE USA, Inc. (vumip1(a)gmail.com) - Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA (Dijiang.Huang(a)asu.edu) - Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China (baixy(a)tsinghua.edu.cn) - Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy (paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it) - Bruno Schulze, National Lab. for Scientific Computing - LNCC, Brazil (schulze(a)lncc.br) - Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (gregorio(a)um.es) - Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (N.Antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk) -- Gregorio Martinez, PhD University of Murcia, Spain http://webs.um.es/gregorio/

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