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Subject: ITM Special Issue on Workflow and E-Business Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:57:58 -0700 From: "J. Leon Zhao" lzhao@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the upcoming special issue in Information Technology and Management. Please see details below.
CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE ON Workflow and E-Business INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Special Issue Co-Editors: Dr. Akhil Kumar, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Dr. J. Leon Zhao, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
The ITM Journal plans to publish a special issue in 2003 on Workflow and E-Business. We invite papers describing novel solutions for supporting workflows in e-business environments.
There has been a recent surge of research interest in developing and applying workflow technologies in the automation of business processes via the Internet, i.e., e-business. Currently, most major conferences have included workflow and its applications as one of the important research areas. This special issue will provide a timely venue for researchers to publish their new and significant research results in an important journal. We are particularly interested in some of the following topics, but are not constrained by them:
Modeling of Inter-organizational workflows Workflow issues in designing and implementing e-services Security issues in inter-organizational workflows Transactional Issues in workflow Data flow issues in inter-organizational workflows XML-based workflows Workflows in implementing supply chain applications Workflows in the context of enterprise application integration Integration of groupware and workflow systems Interoperating ERP and legacy systems with workflow techniques Flexible and adaptive workflow design and implementation techniques Querying inter-organizational workflows
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
The abstract of 100-150 words should clearly summarize the objectives and contents of the manuscript. Research papers should be within 6000 words approximately. All papers must not be submitted at the same time to other venues including journals and conferences. However, significantly extended work based on a published conference paper is encouraged.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Indicate intention to submit paper (with abstract): April 30, 2002 Deadline for manuscript (pdf files preferred): May 31, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2002 Final Manuscript due: December 31, 2002
For more information about the journal and formatting instructions please see the following website: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1385-951X. Please contact the guest-editors if you have any questions.
GUEST EDITORS:
Akhil Kumar Leeds School of Business University of Colorado, CB 419 Boulder Co 80309 Phone: (303) 492-7437 Email: akhil@colorado.edu
J. Leon Zhao Eller School of Business University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: (520) 621-4546 Email: lzhao@bpa.arizona.edu
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