[AISWorld] CFP: Computers in Industry Special Issue on "Interoperability and Future Internet for Next-Generation Enterprises"
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B.Sapkota at utwente.nl
Wed Oct 5 04:13:11 EDT 2011
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Call for
Papers
===============
Computers in Industry
Special
Issue on
"Interoperability and Future Internet for Next-Generation Enterprises"
Aims and Scope
==============
Today's global markets drive enterprises towards closer collaboration
with customers, suppliers and partners. Interoperability problems
constitute fundamental barriers to such collaboration. Another
characteristic of modern economic life is the requirement on continuous
and rapid change and innovation. Due to these two factors, the success
of an enterprise more and more depends on its ability to seamlessly
interoperate with other agile enterprises, and to be able to adapt to
actual or imminent changes. Agility, particularly in the form of
interoperability, thus overtakes efficiency as primary business
characteristic. A central expected enabler for the required
interoperability, including its technical, semantic and pragmatic
support, is the Future Internet.
The role of the current Internet for enterprise interoperability is
essential but at the same time very limited in light of its potential.
The Future Internet should be much more than a universal access and
communication infrastructure. It should be able to empower enterprises
to innovate by creating new business value in collaboration as well as
in competition with other enterprises, based on relevant knowledge about
each other and the market. It should do so in a sustainable and socially
responsible fashion, making efficient use of physical resources with a
minimal environmental footprint. Therefore, the Internet as we know it
should evolve into a universal business support system in which
enterprises enjoy interoperability services that can be invoked on the
fly according to their business needs. Such interoperability services
may require physical sensing capabilities as well as extensively
exploiting knowledge assets.
This Special Issue aims at contributing to a consolidation of the
theoretical and empirical knowledge on Enterprise Interoperability, and
at promoting novel ideas and early experience regarding the use and
realization of the Future Internet vision to advance Enterprise
Interoperability.
Topics
======
Papers should fit the scope of this special issue as described above.
Furthermore, papers should contain a case study on a real life
application. The following lists some related topics:
* Future Internet enterprise systems;
* Science base for enterprise interoperability;
* Knowledge-oriented business collaboration;
* Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and enterprise
interoperability;
* Interoperability through service discovery and
composition;
* Orchestration of and mediation between services;
* Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and enterprise
interoperability;
* Model Driven Interoperability (MDI);
* Computation-independent interoperability models;
* Platform-independent interoperability models;
* Cloud computing interoperability;
* Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and enterprise
interoperability;
* Enterprise architecture and enterprise modeling;
* Business ecosystem modeling & simulation
* Middleware and infrastructure approaches to facilitate and
enhance interoperability;
* Business-IT alignment for interoperability;
* Semantic and pragmatic interoperability models and
mechanisms;
* Self-organization and adaptation for interoperability;
* Coordination and negotiation in networks of businesses;
* Cross-organizational business processes;
* Maturity models and criteria for ranking interoperability
performance;
* Modeling, analysis and validation of interoperability;
* Non-functional aspects of interoperability, such as
privacy, QoS, and reputation;
* Interoperability requirements, approaches and solutions in
specific sectors;
Submission Procedure
====================
The authors of selected papers of the Third International IFIP Working
Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2011) will be invited to
revise and substantially extend their original papers for submission.
Furthermore, the call is open to other researchers active in the area of
enterprise interoperability. Both groups of authors will be treated the
same in the reviewing process.
The submission procedure consists of two steps:
1. Submission of an extended abstract (maximum 2 pages). The
abstracts should mention the title and keywords, and adhere to the
following structure: Context, Problem, Objectives, Approach, and
Contribution.
2. Submission of a full paper. Only authors of extended
abstracts
which are within the scope of the Special Issue and which indicate a
clear contribution to the field will be invited to submit a full paper.
The full papers will be subjected to a blind review, possibly in two
rounds depending on the reviewers' comments. Submission of full papers
will be done through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) on which
authors will be informed after notification of acceptance of the
extended abstract.
Please submit your extended abstract by email to the Guest Editors as a
self-contained PDF file following the instructions for authors found on
the Computers in Industry website:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505646/auth
orinstructions
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505646/aut
horinstructions> .
Important Dates (provisional)
=============================
* Extended abstract (max. 2 pages): October 31, 2011
* Notification of acceptance for submission of a full paper:
December 21, 2011
* Submission of full paper: March 31, 2012
* Completion of first round reviews: July 1, 2012
* Completion of second round reviews: September 30, 2012
* Camera ready version: December 21, 2012
* Publication of the Special Issue: Early Summer 2013
Guest Editors
=============
Dr. Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, Enschede, The
Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Pontus Johnson (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm,
Sweden)
Prof. Dr. Guy Doumeingts (University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France)
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