Call for papers
AAAI Spring Symposium 2011
AI for Business Agility
Stanford University, March 21-23, 2011
The topic:
Business Agility is a topic of increasing interest, in
particular boosted by the recent global financial crisis. For
any business, anticipating changes and adapting quicker and more
efficient is a challenge and various approaches such as cloud
computing,
Business-IT-Alignment, or context modelling try to provide
solutions.
There are two arbitrary principles leading to agility: change
and maturating. Whereas the first is an explicit transformation
of an enterprise architecture or well-defined part of it from a
status A to a status A', the latter can be viewed as being a
continuous
improvement.
Working on these various aspects of agility could bring
together (research) communities of Enterprise Architecture
Modelling and Artificial Intelligence.
Here is a preliminary list of potential questions to be
considered in talks and discussions:
• How can change and maturity for business
agility be modeled and measured?
• How can enterprise architecture models for the
alignment of business
and IT be formalised?
• What is the relation of enterprise ontologies
and Enterprise Architecture frameworks?
• How can anomalies in an Enterprise Architecture
(e.g. defined roles
which never appear in business processes) be detected?
• What Business Intelligence techniques can be
applied to discover patterns
that are indicators for both maturing and changes?
• How can agile business processes be modeled?
• Are Business Rules an appropriate approach for
requirements modelling and compliance?
• Can Web 3.0 and Semantic Web Services be used
to implement agile process
orchestration and choreography allowing for new forms of
cooperation in
virtual organisations?
• What techniques can be used to evaluate the
degree of interoperability of an implemented Enterprise
Architecture?
• How can human-related aspects (e.g. social,
cultural and collaboration issues) in an Enterprise
Architecture be designed and formalized?
The symposium on Business Agility aims to bring together the
various communities to learn and benefit from each other in
order to avoid pitfalls on one hand side and provide the ground
for synergetic co-operations. Besides researchers, the
participation
of business people would be highly beneficial for providing
input about real-world business requirements.
Relevant topics that would be considered for contributions to
the symposium include but are not limited to:
• Semantically enriched enterprise architecture
models
• Enterprise Ontologies
• Knowledge Maturing and Learning
• Context awareness
• The role of ontologies in context modelling
• Collaborative (context) ontology modelling
• Identification of opportunities for change
• Logical sensors for context change
• Cross-border and inter-organizational services
• Machine Learning of patterns for change
• Data mining, process mining and text mining
• Business Rules
• Business Rules Modelling and Management
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Component Based Applications
• Semantic Web Services and agents for Business
Agility
• Semantic and technical interoperability
• Integration of heterogeneous data sources
• Design of socio-technical systems
For more information about the "AI for Business Agility"
symposium see the symposium website
Submission:
Prospective participants are invited to submit research
papers (up to 12 pages) or position papers (up to 4 pages), in
PDF format, via easychair:
Papers should be prepared using the format for AAAI Press
proceedings or technical reports. More details on manuscript
preparation are available at the AAAI Press Author Instructions
page (
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php).
All
submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.
We also welcome proposals for breakout sessions, working
sessions and discussion, containing a description of the topic,
the objective and the expected results.
Important Deadlines:
October 8, 2010 Submissions due to organizers
November 5, 2010 Notifications of acceptance sent by
organizers
January 3, 2011 Accepted camera-ready copy due to
organizers
Organizing committee:
• Knut Hinkelmann (Co-Chair), FHNW University of
Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
(knut.hinkelmann@fhnw.ch)
More Information:
For more information about the symposium see the symposium
website
For more information about the AAAI Spring Symposium Series
see