[AISWorld] Final CfP: The Role of Platforms for Enterprise Eco-Systems

[3EP]

Workshop at the 41. Annual GI-Conference INFORMATIK 2011
October 04 – 07, 2011 – Berlin, Germany

Please excuse any cross-postings of this call for papers.

Since their introduction, Information Systems have changed and shaped many
aspects of business, may be even the way business is conducted altogether.
This is especially true for the cooperation between firms that leads to an
integration of value chains across multiple entities. The emerging networks
span not only the various business units of any one company, but may also
include multiple units from multiple firms. As a consequence, companies need
to look not only at themselves in order to ensure sustainable and superior
business performance, but also at an entire eco-system of surrounding
entities with which they interact. These eco-systems span multiple stages of
the supply chain, that is, involve suppliers and customers. In order to
allow these different units to cooperate successfully, the existence of a
common platform is crucial. Such a platform enables the transformation of
monolithic, closed system landscapes into a more open infrastructural
backbone for business networks. An example is the increasing adoption of
service-oriented architecture (SOA). Through its higher degree of
modularity, SOA allows companies to integrate external services much more
easily. Moreover, the process and service chains of various entities along a
value chain can be integrated much more seamlessly. Another case in point is
the growing importance of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) concepts and
corresponding offerings.
The workshop on emerging enterprise eco-system platforms (3EP) provides a
forum for the scientific discourse dealing with the role of platforms in
business networks. The event aims at taking a both diverse and balanced look
on the impact and effects of platforms on enterprise eco-systems. During the
workshop we want to discuss technological as well as management-oriented
issues. In doing so, we want to encourage an exchange concerning design,
use, and optimization of platforms in enterprise eco-systems among software
developers, platform providers, and users.

Possible Topics:
- Different architectural approaches to platforms for respective application
scenarios
- Business models in the context of service-oriented platforms for
integrated information systems
- Technological and organizational implications for platform providers
- Orchestration and composition of services
- Software product life-cycle in distributed and dynamic business networks
- Performance measurement and management of external services
- Effects of platform concepts on the degree of integration in business
networks
- Approaches to coordinate internal and external services
- Implications for the data layer (e.g., issues of data integration and
interoperability)
- Platform governance
- Emerging opportunities and potentials through the use of platforms
- Interaction between application marketplaces and platforms
- Economic implications of platform concepts for the software industry
- Impact of consumerization on platforms used in an enterprise context
- Case studies and best practices of platform providers and platform users

Your contribution:
We welcome theoretical and empirical papers as submissions for the 3EP
workshop. Exemplary cases from the industry are also welcome to enrich the
discussion. Submissions can be made in either English or German and should
comprise 8 to 12 pages (including all figures, tables, and references).
Submissions should be made until 04/24/2011 (11:59 pm GMT +1).
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as part of
the 'Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI)' series. All submissions must be
made following the respective formatting and style guidelines:
http://www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Autorenrichtlinien/guidelines.pdf
Submissions will be made via the EasyChair system. When handing in, you will
be asked to select the respective workshop before entering authors and
affiliations. Once completed, please upload your article in PDF format:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2011
For more information, please visit http://www.informatik2011.de/535.html (in
German only) or contact info (AT) informatik2011.de

Target Group:
The 3EP workshop provides a forum for both academics and practitioners for
mutual exchange and inspiration. Submissions from computer science as well
as from information systems will provide a complementary view on the issue
of platforms in business networks. Authors that look at the phenomenon from
adjacent discipline, such as sociology or law, are equally welcome and
encouraged to contribute respective submissions.
Through this interdisciplinary approach, 3EP intends to integrate the
various theoretical and empirical perspectives on the phenomenon. The
participation of practitioners will help to gear the workshop’s results
towards relevance and applicability on practice.

Important Dates:
04/24/2011 – Submission Deadline via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informatik2011
05/23/2011 – Notification of authors
07/01/2011 – Submission of camera-ready version
10/04 – 10/07/2011 – Conference “INFORMATIK 2011” in Berlin, Germany

Registration:
In order to participate in the workshop, a registration for the INFORMATIK
2011 conference is required. You do not need to have an paper accepted in
the workshop in order to participate. For each accepted paper, at least one
of the authors needs to register before the conference and be present to
present the contribution in order to be included in the proceedings. For
more information on the conference and the registration process please
visit: http://www.informatik2011.de (in German only) or contact info (AT)
informatik2011.de

Chairs:
- Alexander Mädche (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Benjamin Müller (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Daniel Beimborn (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Program committee:
- Ashley A. Bush (Florida State University, USA)
- Wolfgang Faisst (SAP AG, Germany)
- Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
- Jan-Marco Leimeister (University of Kassel, Germany)
- Paul Müller (Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Klaus Pohl (University Duisburg Essen, Germany)
- Karl-Michael Popp (SAP AG, Germany)
- Amrit Tiwana (University of Georgia, USA)
- Klaus Turowski (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Christof Weinhardt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Thomas Widjaja (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)

Questions about the workshop or planned contributions can be directed to:
3EP (AT) eris.uni-mannheim.de