-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Call for Chapter Proposals Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning: Systems and Strategies Datum: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:43:39 -0300 Von: Free/Open Source ERP Book foserp@gmail.com An: abderrazek jemai abderrazekjemai@yahoo.co.uk, agarwala@sar.usf.edu, aisworld@lists.aisnet.org, Aline Pires Vieira de Vasconcelos apires@iff.edu.br, amir.sharif@brunel.ac.uk, anicol@cba.bgsu.edu, armolina@itesm.mx, Artur Caetano artur.caetano@inov.pt, bakos@stern.nyu.edu, braggad@pace.edu, burlat@emse.fr, Charles Moller charles@production.aau.dk, "Chris O'BRIEN" chris.obrien@nottingham.edu.cn, chris.obrien@nottingham.ac.uk, christian@hih.au.dk, cmvichita@mahidol.ac.th, Corinto Corinto.Meffe@planejamento.gov.br, cr.acc@cbs.dk, Dalessandro Vianna dalessandro@ucam-campos.br, Dirk Riehle dirk@riehle.org, dirk.deschoolmeester@vlerick.be, dolson3@unl.edu, "Dr. A Min Tjoa" amin@ifs.tuwien.ac.at, "Dr. Subodh Kesharwani" subodhkesharwani@gmail.com, eisoja@cyf-kr.edu.pl, fnah2@unl.edu, Francois.VERNADAT@eca.europa.eu, geertsg@lerner.udel.edu, gksaha@rediffmail.com, guptaj@uah.edu, H.Bouwman@tbm.tudelft.nl, ha@uvt.nl, hari@csa.iisc.ernet.in, heitor.caulliraux@gpi.ufrj.br, Helder Gomes Costa hgc@latec.uff.br, iris@cs.aau.dk, j.j.m.trienekens@tm.tue.nl, Jan.Holmstrom@hut.fi, jan.olhager@ipe.liu.se, José Marques Soares marques@cefet-ce.br, jsantos@tecnun.es, junesong@cs.kaist.ac.kr, jzguo@umac.mo, Kamran Ali Chatha kamranali@lums.edu.pk, Kris Ven kris.ven@ua.ac.be, krogstie@idi.ntnu.no, Li Da Xu lxu@odu.edu, Liu Lu liulu@buaa.edu.cn, lli@odu.edu, lph.inf@cbs.dk, m.a.rashid@massey.ac.nz, M.Muyeba@mmu.ac.uk, Maria Raffai maria.raffai@gmail.com, Maria-Eugenia Jacob m.e.iacob@utwente.nl, Marinos.Themistocleous@brunel.ac.uk, marques.soares@gmail.com, "Martin Op't Land" Martin.OptLand@capgemini.com, Mateus Costa mbarcosta@gmail.com, mccarthy@bus.msu.edu, Mehdi Snene Mehdi.Snene@unige.ch, mehran@sociesc.com.br, Michael Rosenmann m.rosemann@qut.edu.au, mmashari@ccis.ksu.edu.sa, msumner@siue.edu, Muthu Ramachandran M.Ramachandran@leedsmet.ac.uk, Neji Mahmoud Mahmoud.Neji@fsegs.rnu.tn, Parthasarathy parthatce@gmail.com, Paul Hawking paul.hawking@vu.edu.au, pkj@epa.aau.dk, q.chung@villanova.edu, qijiayin@139.com, r.j.kusters@tue.nl, Renato Campos rcampos@feb.unesp.br, rikhardsson@gmail.com, robkusters@gmail.com, said.izza@gmail.com, salem badeea ab_salem@hotmail.com, santhan@uky.edu, sbk@us.ibm.com, smohsen_hashemi@yahoo.com, Sofiane Sahraoui sofianesahraoui@yahoo.co.uk, Sohail Chaudhry sohail.chaudhry@villanova.edu, ssahraoui@aus.edu, ssfqjy@263.net, ssharma@bsu.edu, stefan.koch@boun.edu.tr, stefanou@acc.teithe.gr, Stephan Roser stephan.roser@informatik.uni-augsburg.de, Stephanie Gibson stephanie.gibson@hotelscombined.com, Susan Foster Sue.Foster@infotech.monash.edu.au, Tanaka tanaka@uniriotec.br, Torben Tambo TorbenTo@hih.au.dk, valerie.botta@insa-lyon.fr, vincent@emse.fr, vromanov@rea.ru, wenhong.luo@villanova.edu, xianrong.zheng@gmail.com, yuhong@cse.concordia.ca, Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk

*Call for Chapter Proposals*

*Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010*

*Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning: Systems and Strategies*

*A book edited by* *Dr. Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Instituto Federal Fluminense, Brazil, & Dr. Bjorn Johansson, Lund University, Sweden*

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*To be published by IGI Global *

*http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=830*

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*Introduction*

Free/Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning systems (FOS-ERP) are increasingly gaining acceptance for many reasons. One obvious reason could be direct cost, considering that there are no licensing fees in general. Another reason could be the perception of the fact that if customization is inevitable, why not adopt a solution that exposes its code to the client company, which may increase the possibility to freely adapt the system to its needs. Adapting is a crucial point to ERPs, given that, enterprise systems in general are not off-the-shelf programs that can be instantaneously used, which reinforces the freedom of manipulating the code by itself in FOS-ERP: if the vendor changes its contract terms, the client company is not locked in to a particular solution supplier. Furthermore, if, for both kinds of ERP, proprietary or free, the fact that integration among processes can by itself be a source of competitive advantage, this can maybe be extrapolated to the possibility of changing source code to drive an even better advantage.

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*Book Objective*

The main goal of the book is to be a collection of chapters that provide a broad coverage of the various aspects that differentiates FOS-ERP of P-ERP, discussing technical, economic and social matters. Also, the future of FOS-ERP in an ever changing marketing represents prospective chapters for the book.

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*Target Audience*

Researchers, graduation students, ERP consultants, and Free/Open Software developers in general will find in dept information on FOS-ERP, from the technical to the economical and social aspects.

*Recommended Topics*

Given the growing interest and acceptance of FOS-ERP and the small number of references to this subject, this book proposes to analyze a series of topics where FOS-ERP differs from P-ERP, including technical, economic and social aspects and their possible impacts in ERP global scenario:

1. FOS-ERP as an emerging Enterprise Information Systems field, in commercial and research terms: why FOS-ERP is different of P-ERP, in technical and economical aspects

2. Opportunities and challenges for both developers and adopters of FOS-ERP: which kind of problems and opportunities can FOS-ERP developers and adopters face and how they can develop those.

3. Evaluating FOS-ERP: in what way does a FOS-ERP differs from a P-ERP in terms of evaluation.

4. Business models for FOS-ERP: how a company can profit from a FOS-ERP.

5. Technology transfer, from the developer to the adopter company: since the code is open, which kind of technology transfer can happen between the supplier and the buyer of a FOS-ERP.

6. Opportunities for FOS-ERP among SMEs: why FOS-ERP can be a good opportunity for SMEs.

7. Opportunities for FOS-ERP in Developing Countries: why FOS-ERP can be a good opportunity for Developing Countries.

8. Opportunities for FOS-ERP research: how researchers can benefit from the FOS-ERP’s open technologies.

9. Success cases: real-world successful FOS-ERP implementation cases and the experience obtained from them.

10. Free/Open Source ERP development: frameworks, tools, and modeling methods.

11. General directions and trends on FOS-ERP.

Please note this list is not exclusive; other topics not listed here, but related to FOS-ERP, are certainly welcome.

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*Publisher*

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com http://www.igi-pub.com/. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

*Submission Procedure*

Researchers and practitioners interested in submitting chapters are invited to submit /on or before *May 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters */(7,000 - 10,000 words) are expected to be submitted to foserp@gmail.com mailto:foserp@gmail.com by */September 15, 2010/*. All submitted chapters should be in MS-Word or Open Office format and will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Additional information regarding the call for chapters can be found at

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*Important Dates*

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010

Full chapter Submission: September 15, 2010

Review Results to Authors: November 15, 2010

Revised Chapter Submission: December 15, 2010

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/Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded *electronically* to:/

*Dr. Rogerio Atem de Carvalho & Dr. Bjorn Johansson*

*Instituto Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Lund University, Sweden*

*foserp@gmail.com mailto:foserp@gmail.com*