-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP: Special Track "Business Value of SOA" and 2nd general CfP of SEKE'09 (21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering), Boston July 01-03, 2009 Datum: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:09:46 +0100 Von: Daniel Beimborn daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de Antwort an: Daniel Beimborn daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

CALL FOR PAPERS of the Special Track "Business Value of Service-Oriented Architectures" at The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) Boston, July 1-3 2009 (URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke09.html )

SCOPE of the Special Track: Service-based computing and service-oriented organizational paradigms, often jointly captured by the term of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), promise to support the implementation of large-scale business processes and simultaneously to offer increased flexibility in reacting to changing processual and market demands. There is many ongoing research on the technical aspects of effectively designing, implementing and maintaining SOA, but one of the most fundamental questions has still found scarce attention: What is the actual Business Value from adopting SOA? And moreover, how can we evaluate and measure it - ideally before adopting the service-oriented paradigm both on the business level and on the IT architecture level. In order to determine the importance of different aspects of SOA from an economic and strategic perspective, potential adopters need support in estimating the benefits, risks, and efforts associated with SOA. This should help aligning business and IT side of the firm in order to accomplish efficient and effective decision making about introducing SOA.

This special track is organized in SEKE'09 to bring together researchers and practitioners from both the service engineering and the business management side to discuss pressing issues regarding the Business Value of SOA. Topics of specific interest for this track are:

. Methods to evaluate the Business Value of SOA (such as, economic evaluation instruments, real-option approaches, etc.) . Value of SOA-based application integration and legacy applications . Relationship of SOA and Business/IT Alignment . Role of SOA for Efficient Business Process Outsourcing . Determining re-use and re-usability of services . Migration to SOA-based Enterprise Architectures ("Service-oriented Enterprise") . Case studies on determining the Return of implementing SOA . Methods, frameworks, and tools to assess the business benefits and risks from running SOA for companies . Successful application of SOA in the finance industry, logistics, healthcare

The track is also open for additional related topics not listed, however all submitted papers should clearly focus on the application in a SOA setting.

IMPORTANT DATES (as for the main conference):

. Paper submission due: March 1, 2009 . Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 . Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 . Conference: July 1 - 3, 2009

SUBMISSION Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Manuscripts must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references).

TRACK ORGANIZERS Tim Weitzel (tim.weitzel@uni-bamberg.de), Chair of Information Systems, University of Bamberg, Germany Guido Wirtz (guido.wirtz@uni-bamberg.de), Distributed and Mobile Systems Group, University of Bamberg, Germany Daniel Beimborn (daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de), Department for Information Systems and Services, University of Bamberg, Germany

If you have any questions regarding the special track or whether your research fits into its focus, don't hesitate to contact one of the organizers.

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2nd GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009.

The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains.

http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke09.html

TOPICS

Solicited topics include, but are not limited to:

Agent architectures: ontologies, languages and protocols, Multi-agent systems, Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery, Interface agents, Agent-based auctions and marketplaces, Artificial life and societies, Secure mobile and multi-agent systems, Mobile agents and mobile systems

Autonomic computing: Adaptive Systems, Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Process and Workflow Management, E-Commerce Solutions and Applications, Industry System Experience and Report

Service-centric software engineering: Service oriented requirements engineering, Service oriented architectures, Middleware for service based systems, Service discovery and composition, Quality of services, Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management), Runtime service management, Semantic web

Requirements Engineering: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering, Component-Based Software Engineering, Automated Software Specification, Automated Software Design and Synthesis, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering, Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Programming Languages and Software Engineering, Patterns and Frameworks, Reflection and Metadata Approaches, Program Understanding

Knowledge Acquisition: Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems, Knowledge Representation and Retrieval, Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques, Time and Knowledge Management Tools, Knowledge Visualization, Ontologies and Methodologies, Learning Software Organization

Human-Computer Interaction: Multimedia Applications & Frameworks, Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering

Smart Spaces, Pervasive Computing, Swarm intelligence, Soft Computing

Software Architecture, Software Assurance, Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling, Software dependability, Software economics, Software Engineering, Decision Support Software, Engineering Tools and Environments, Software Maintenance and Evolution, Software Process Modeling, Software product lines, Software Quality, Software Reuse, Software Safety, Software Security, Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports

Web and text mining: Web-Based Tools and Applications, Web-Based Knowledge Management

as well as System Applications and Experience, Validation and Verification, Formal Methods

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php . Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references).

If you have any questions or run into problems, please send an e-mail to: seke09@ksi.edu.

SEKE 2009 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke@ksi.edu Web: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke09.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: March 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 Conference: July 1 - 3, 2009

Dr. Daniel Beimborn Assistant Professor

University of Bamberg Dept. for Information Systems and Services Feldkirchenstr. 21 D-96049 Bamberg / Germany

email: daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de web: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/isdl/beimborn

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