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The 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'11)
September 5-7, 2011
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
http://www.tudor.lu/cms/cec2011/content.nsf/id/wshp

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* CEC'11 WORKSHOPS: CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'11) will feature 5
high quality workhops:

1) International Workshop on Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011
by Vladimir Tosic (vladimir.tosic@nicta.com.au) et al.
http://nicta.com.au/people/tosicv/clouds4enterprises2011/

2) Decision-oriented Business Applications: Experiences and Challenges (DOBA)
by Emilio Rubiera (emilio.rubiera@fundacionctic.org) et al.
http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/doba

3) Convergence of Business Architecture, Business Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented 
Architecture
by Jorge Sanz (jorges@us.ibm.com) et al.
http://www.tudor.lu/cms/cec2011/content.nsf/id/soa

4) Sustainable Enterprise Software (SES)
by Katsuhide Fujita (fujita@capecod.mta.nitech.ac.jp) et al.
http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/SES2011/

5) Green Enterprise and Commerce (GreEnCom)
by Chulmo Koo (helmetgu@gmail.com) et al.
http://intelligent.pe.kr/GreenCom11/

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan


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1) International Workshop on Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011
by Vladimir Tosic (vladimir.tosic@nicta.com.au) et al.

Description:
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Cloud computing is an increasingly popular computing paradigm that aims to streamline the on-demand provisioning of 
software (SaaS), platform (PaaS), infrastructure (IaaS), and data (DaaS) as services. Deploying applications on a cloud 
can help to achieve scalability, improve flexibility of computing infrastructure , and reduce total cost of ownership. 
However, a variety of challenges arise when deploying and operating applications and services in complex and dynamic 
cloud-based environments, which are frequent in enterprises and governments.

Due to the security and privacy concerns with public cloud offerings (which first attracted widespread attention), it 
seems likely that many enterprises and governments will choose hybrid cloud, community cloud, and (particularly in the 
near future) private cloud solutions. Multi-tier infrastructures like these not only promise vast opportunities for 
future business models and new types of integrated business services, but also pose severe technical and organizational 
problems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic, industrial, and government researchers (from different 
disciplines), developers, and IT managers interested in cloud computing technologies and/or their 
consumer-side/provider-side use in enterprises and governments. Through paper presentations and discussions, this 
workshop will contribute to the inter-disciplinary and multi-perspective exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination 
of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of open cloud research 
and adoption/exploitation issues.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission: Monday, 20 June 2011 (strict, except for re-submission of papers reviewed by CEC'11)
Notification of acceptance: Monday, 4 July 2011

Organizing Committee:
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Dr. Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia
Dr. Andrew Farrell, HP Labs, UK
Dr. Karl Michael Göschka, Vienna University of Technology
Sebastian Hudert, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Prof. Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Michael Parkin, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

More Details:
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http://nicta.com.au/people/tosicv/clouds4enterprises2011/


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2) Decision-oriented Business Applications: Experiences and Challenges (DOBA)
by Emilio Rubiera (emilio.rubiera@fundacionctic.org) et al.

Description:
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Decision-oriented applications are complex due to the underlying business policies and require the participation of many 
stakeholders, from business experts over analysts to IT developers. In current practice, business users do not own their 
applications, as their construction and maintenance inevitably require having other agents involved. In the recent 
years, progress has been made in standardization of modeling and knowledge representation languages, as well as advances 
in methodologies and theoretical foundations for policy acquisition and execution. It is becoming increasingly feasible 
to reduce the coupling between policies and their implementations, and to empower users to independently interact with 
the part of a business application that is relevant to them, including the decision modeling process. One approach 
towards achieving this objective is to separate understandably the representation of the knowledge at the business, 
operational and execution levels, on the one hand; and the business vocabulary from the business rules, on the other. At 
the same time, it must be possible to merge them at any moment in order to provide integrated ownership, combined 
execution and consistency checking.

The goal of this workshop is to gather together the community of business users in charge of decision-support business 
applications. The workshop will be a means for practitioners to share and exchange experiences, best practices, critical 
visions, success stories, and to de?ne a possible roadmap to the future.

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: Jun 24, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Jul 8, 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: Jul 22, 2011
Workshop: September 5, 2011

Organizing Committee:
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Patrick Albert, IBM, France
Roman Korf, ontoprise, Germany
Emilio Rubiera, Fundación CTIC, Spain

More Details:
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http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/doba


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3) Convergence of Business Architecture, Business Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented 
Architecture
by Jorge Sanz (jorges@us.ibm.com) et al.

Description:
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The modernization of industries calls for a deeper integration of several business and IT disciplines. Significant 
knowledge sources reside in individual domains spanning business strategy, operational process management and 
information technology. A number of recent and ongoing engineering, computer science and business research efforts have 
provided invaluable formalization toward understanding architecture of organizations from a multidisciplinary 
point-of-view. These activities contribute to a potentially deeper integration across strategy, operations and IT by 
providing a diversity of assets useful for transformation of enterprises. Academic, industrial and standard 
organizations have made great progress in the individual disciplines and their cohesive convergence, but substantial 
challenges remain unresolved.

As a clear signal of this trend, several architecture endeavors populate the research and professional literature. 
Specifically, four architectures have clearly emerged, i.e., Business Process Architecture (BPA), Service-Oriented 
Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA), each posing the goal of providing 
technical rigor and convergence across their own communities of practitioners and researchers. However, the deep 
interconnection across these architectures and related practices present some formidable technical challenges. With the 
new positioning of Business Architecture coming from a revamp of interest from companies, government organizations, 
standards and business analysts, gaps, overlaps and related fundamental issues across architectures resurface. As a 
simple but conclusive example of the seminal cross-fertilization opportunity, Business Process Management (BPM) is today 
addressed by each SOA, EA and BA. Considering that BPM is a central subject in services business, the extent to which 
this commonality of concerns across architectures constitutes a redundancy, an oppositional view, or a complementarity 
remains to be explained. Similarly, "industry models" (in a wide and at times, also ambiguous sense) is a subject of 
research and practitioners' concern from different architecture and related BPM communities. There are several other 
important topics belonging to the same sphere of convergence that should be addressed in this Workshop.

The goal of this workshop is to generate some of the foundational ground needed from research and practice that can help 
BA, BPA, SOA and EA converge and / or be unified whenever necessary for more cohesive business transformation and 
optimization of organizations. Effective use of automation and supporting information technology in industries will be 
substantially accelerated by seeing BA, EA, BPA and SOA providing foundations and practices that conclusively benefit 
from each other and become much more prescriptive than they are when individually applied.. The goal of this workshop is 
to gather contributions from academia and industry to foster innovation, document position statements and seed common 
agendas across the involved disciplines.

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: June 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
Camera-Ready copy due: July 10, 2011
Conference and Workshop program: TBA

Organizing Committee:
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Dr. Jorge Sanz, IBM Research, USA
Prof. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong-Kong

More Details:
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http://www.tudor.lu/cms/cec2011/content.nsf/id/soa


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4) Sustainable Enterprise Software (SES)
by Katsuhide Fujita (fujita@capecod.mta.nitech.ac.jp) et al.

Description:
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SES'11 is the international workshop on advances in theory, systems, and applications for enterprise software. 
Enterprise software is used in organizations, such as in a business or government, as opposed to software chosen by 
individuals. Especially, the sustainability of enterprise software is one of an important topic, recently. Without 
focusing on the sustainability, the enterprise software has not been developed depending on the change of life. On the 
other hand, the technical breakthrough of sustainable enterprise software is not enough. This workshop is about the 
invention of sustainable software based on the artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and intelligent web technologies. 
Especially, our workshop focuses on the invention of sustainable enterprise software based on the Web Intelligence and 
Artificial Intelligence.

The increase of Business research activities can be observed in a variety of the fields. Though there have been several 
workshops on Business and Services focusing on enterprise software, there is little interaction so far among 
researchers. The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this field, and to bring together world-wide 
researchers with an interest in Enterprise Software. Unlike the conventional conferences, this workshop will mainly 
discuss and explore scientific and practical problems as raised by the participants. Especially, we provide enough 
discussion parses for understanding the importance of sustainability and the relationships between the enterprise 
software and the AI techniques.

Important Dates:
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June, 6, 2011 - Submission deadline
June 20, 2011 - Acceptance notification
July 4, 2011 - Camera ready

Organizing Committee:
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Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Katsuhide Fujita, MIT, US / Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

More Details:
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http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/SES2011/


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5) Green Enterprise and Commerce (GreEnCom)
by Chulmo Koo

Description:
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While industries, corporations, and information systems (IS) units have acknowledged the importance of environmental 
issues, the IS academy has provided limited contribution to burgeoning knowledge in this important field. For example, 
Google has been paying much attention to build up a clean energy future, and search better energy options: (1) Green 
Operations, which is trying to use as little energy as possible in data centers and office, (2) Green Products, which 
integrate technology, innovation, scalability, and talented tools for offset the emission that it cannot be eliminated, 
(3) Green Investment, which is an renewable energy project investment that achieve benefits and risk, (4) Green 
Awareness, which pursue a green policy, strategy, and practices.

The critical role of Greening IS and Green IT for corporate greening eco-computing systems, for consumer’s motivation 
toward green IT behavior in response to goods and services, for protecting an environment in the future generation and 
solving a shortage of energy is urgently needed to be embedded in the life cycles of materials, manufacturing systems, 
and public infrastructure. Even though all consensus of Computer Science, Management Science based on both of academic 
researcher and practitioners has already begun to initiate that IS related to a set of people, infrastructure, IT 
components, IT service, organization strategy & capability, and consumer’s motivation would give various aspects’ views 
for greening business and sustainability in the next generation. Through encouragement of academic researchers to 
respond to this social and computing call for establishing the IS perspective into Eco-computing systems, Greening IT 
behavior, and next generation, we seek to expand and incorporate various research methodologies including theoretical 
approaches (conceptual/theory building), empirical studies encompassing broad-based surveys, case studies, technical 
research modeling, quantitative and analytical techniques.

Specifically, our objective toward this workshop is twofold:
(1) To further unite the green academic community integrating Computer Science, Management Science, and Management 
Information Systems in IT infrastructure, organizational aspects, and individual aspects in response to environmental 
issues.
(2) To develop a research agenda from both researchers and practitioners for established and emergent scholars in the 
various areas.

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: May 30, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2011
Camera-Ready copy due: July 8, 2011
Conference and Workshop program: TBA

Organizing Committee:
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Chulmo Koo, Chosun University, South Korea
Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong
Jason J. Jung, Yeungnam University, Korea

More Details:
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http://intelligent.pe.kr/GreenCom11/




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