[AISWorld] Call for chapters proposals: Handbook of Research on Electrnic Business Standards and Protocols

[Ejub Kajan]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 11, 2010
Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents,  
Data and Advanced Web Technologies
A book edited by
Dr. Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Dr. Frank-Dieter Dorloff, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dr. Ivan Bedini, Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Ireland

To be published by IGI Global:
http://igi-global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/CallForBookChapters/CallForChapterDetails.aspx?CallForContentId=9b28d55a-7ad3-4434-bff6-bd163d31a749


Introduction

Electronic business (here and after EC, Electronic Commerce) is a major  
force shaping the digital world. Yet, despite of years of research and  
standardization efforts, many problems persist that prevent EC from  
achieving its full potential. In particular, errors and conflicts are  
caused by too much heterogeneity between existing business documents and  
in products and services catalogues. Problems arise from different data  
vocabulary, classification schemas, document names, structures, exchange  
formats—and their varying roles in business processes. Non-standardized  
business terminology, lack of common acceptable and understandable  
processes (grammar), and lack of common dialog rules (protocols) create  
barriers to improving electronic business processes. These problems arise  
 from the incompatibility of B2B protocols, i.e. from the heterogeneity of  
atomic transactions that appear in public part of a business process.


Recent research has concentrated on goals of harmony and agreement in  
business processes—attempting to choreograph and orchestrate business  
protocols and to match semantic agreement between their vocabularies and  
grammar. In doing so, they assure that business data from different  
business documents can be included in business protocols in a consistently  
understandable and applicable way by business peers, even though  
requirements for electronic business differ depending on the domain (e.g.  
e-government. E-procurement), the sector (trade or industry), and the  
actor (public or private). These differences also require an in depth  
analysis.

New approaches, including thinking about new possibilities for the  
Internet of Things and the Internet of Services and for “cloud oriented”  
approaches is also of real interest to researchers who hope to solve these  
problems. Electronic business applications play a part in the evolution of  
future technologies, promise a new way to share and discover information,  
and may improve business exchange capability. Moving toward real business  
intelligence, many researchers hope to discover where intelligent agents  
and Semantic Web technologies fit in now and how they support the goal of  
improving electronic business standards and protocols.


Objective of the Book

The book will give an overview of the latest achievements in the field,  
provide in-depth analysis of and research on the development and  
deployment of cutting-edge applications, and provide insight into future  
trends.


Target Audience
The subject of the book is one of the hot topics in electronic business  
and IT research. The target audience of this book will be composed of  
researchers, teachers, advanced undergraduates, and PhD students in  
various e-business and computer science programs.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Electronic Business Standards (EBS)
•	Data structures exchanged, data-semantics
•	Object Identification (e.g. products, firms, logistic units, …EAN,  
RFID,…)
•	Electronic catalogs
•	Classification schemes
•	Business processes
•	Middleware frameworks inside and between enterprises
E-Business documents
•	Interoperability issues of business data exchange
•	XMLschema matching of business documents and inside ERP systems
•	Web services for e-business documents
•	Mediation of e-business documents
•	Semantic definitions of e-business documents and product
•	Ontology-based development, representation and alignment
E-Business Processes
•	Business Process Modeling (Concepts and Tools)
•	Business Process Orchestration, Choreography and Collaboration
•	Semantically-Enabled Business Processes
•	Artifact-based Business Processes
•	Business Process Ontology
•	Towards Reference Ontology for Business Processes
Future Internet and its impact on E-Business
•	Approaches to the publication of services
•	Approaches to the publication of “things”
•	Earlier adoptions
•	Semantic definitions of services
•	Early standards efforts on IoT and IoS
Theory, practice and visions of agent’s deployment in electronic business
•	Theoretical foundations
•	Multi agent communications
•	Agents communication languages
•	Standardization efforts in the field of agents
Standardization development, dissemination, relevance, quality and costs
•	Types, roles and relevance of standardization bodies
•	Organization and standardization of the development process
•	Relations between standards
•	Quality metrics for standards
•	Economic aspects of using standards
•	Small vs. big enterprises
Domains, concepts and experiences with Standards
       (projects, results, methods, organization, lessons learned)
•	Sectors( Trade, Industry, Public)
•	Applications ( E-government, e-Procurement, ..)
•	Lessons learned and To Dos

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November  
11, 2011, 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 by December 11, 2011 about the status of their proposals  
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by  
March 11, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind  
review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for  
this project. Additional information regarding this publication can also  
be found at http://gislabweb.elfak.ni.ac.rs/ejub.

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,” “Business  
Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For  
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit  
www.igi-global.com. This publication should be released in 2012.

Important Dates:
November 11, 2011: 	Proposal Submission Deadline
December 11, 2011: 	Notification of Acceptance
March 11, 2011: 		Full Chapter Submission
May 31, 2011: 		Review Results Returned
June 30, 2011: 		Revised Chapter Submission
July 30, 2011: 		Final Acceptance Notification
August 15, 2011: 	Submission of Final Chapters

Editorial Advisory Board Members: (EAB members are being invited)

Dr. Flavio Bonfatti, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mr. Veit Jahns, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Dr. Luigi Lancieri, University of Lille, France
Dr. In Lee, Western Illinois University, Chicago, US
Dr. Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenhiem, Germany
Ms. Quinghua Lu, UNSW and NICTA, Australia
Dr. Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Dr. M. Antonia Martinez-Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain
Dr. Chantal Reynaud, Paris XI University and INRIA, France
Dr. Florian Rosenberg, CSIRO, Australia
Dr. Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moore University, UK
Dr. Vladimir Tošic, NICTA, Australia


Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document)  
or by mail to:
Prof. Dr. Ejub Kajan
Department of Mathematical, Physics and Information Sciences
State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Tel.: +381 20 337 201 • Fax: +381 20 337 669
E-mail: ejubkajan at sbb.rs
E-mail: kajane at acm.org

and/or

Prof. Dr. Frank-Deiter Dorloff
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Department of Information Systems and computer science in economics
Phone: ++49 (201) 183-4083
Fax: ++49 (201) 183-934083
E-mail: frank.dorloff at icb.uni-due.de
E-mail: frank.dorloff at gmx.net

and/or

Dr. Ivan Bedini
Department of Enabling Computing Technology
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Ireland
Tel.: +353 1 8864525
E-mail: ivan.bedini at alcatel-lucent.com
E-mail: ivanbedini at gmail.com




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