-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: 14th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises - special session on Social Semantic Enterprise Datum: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:06:07 +0100 Von: Maciej Dabrowski maciej.dabrowski@deri.org An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

14th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises Dresden, Germany, 30 September - 02 October 2013

*Special Session on Building the Social Semantic Enterprise*

*Scope*

Organizations build and maintain many information systems to mange large volume of content published and consumed by knowledge-intensive workers. These systems are interconnected both internally, within an organization, and with systems external to the organization, for example news feed on the Web . Such environments involve many peers, which share information within a large network that is often distributed across various departments or sometimes even geographically. Such distributed environment brings new challenges related to efficient synchronization and delivery of information between interested peers (e.g. employees).

However, the contemporary organizational landscape follows a distributed model in which various peers can both publish and consume information. This shift requires new approaches for delivery of timely and relevant information in a close-to-real-time manner across such peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Many initiatives focus on building P2P wikis that combine the bene�ts of mass collaboration with the intrinsic qualities of peer-to-peer networks, such as scalability or fault-tollerance. The main challenge in building such collaborative tools is to ensure the consistency of content replicated on different peers. Although knowledge workers utilize many collaboration tools (e.g blogs, wikis), crucial information is often not managed effectively what affects efficiency and generates additional spending. To address this concern, organizations attempt to sustain information exchange through utilization of social networking tools both internally and externally.

Once the social network is woven and social connections are established, it is important to gather and reuse information available in this network. Thus, a distributed social network requires efficient data synchronization tools to allow for timely updates and retrieval of relevant content.

In our session we shall present and discuss results of hands-on applications and practices followed and recent case studies from the health, the finance, the electronics and the publishing / media industries, looking critically into their commonalities and asking for challenges related to a wide gamut of technical- and human-related aspects such as:

Transition from enterprise data silos to semantically linked enterprise networks Valorisation of corporate semantic data Spinning the social semantic web Sociology theories for semantic social networks

*Session Organizers* Dr Maciej Dabrowski, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, E-mail: maciej.dabrowski@deri.org mailto:maciej.dabrowski@deri.org

Prof. Eleni Kaldoudi, School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece, E-mail: kaldoudi@med.duth.gr mailto:kaldoudi@med.duth.gr

*Submission procedure* Special sessions are included in the main Conference and follow the same reviewing process. Full papers submission: April, 26th, 2013 Acceptance Notice: May, 12th, 2013 Camera Ready Submission: May, 31th, 2013

Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 8 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee. When submitting on the web site, you have to indicate the name of the special session.

Submission on: www.pro-ve.org http://www.pro-ve.org/ with copy by email to the chairs of the special session.

Maciej Dabrowski Unit for Social Software t: +353 91 494052 l: ie.linkedin.com/in/macdab http://ie.linkedin.com/in/macdab s: maciasdab