[AISWorld] CFP 13th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (PRO-VE 2012)

[Lai Xu]

C A L L    f o r    P A P E R S
PRO-VE’12 (http://www.pro-ve.org/)
13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
Bournemouth, UK, 1-3 October 2012

Important dates
Main conference:
Abstracts submission:         28 Feb 2012
Full paper submission:        15 Apr 2012
Acceptance notice:              10 May 2012
Camera ready submission: 31 May 2012

Applied developments/Industry track:
Short abstracts submission:             17 Jun 2012
Extended abstracts submission:      31 Jul 2012

Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services
Recent developments under the umbrella of Future Internet offer new
concepts and mechanisms to support a new generation of advanced
collaborative networks. Particularly relevant is the consolidation of
the Internet of Services and its associated infrastructures and
related concepts such as service ecologies and service parks.
Complementarily, recent progress on Cyber Physical Systems induce new
virtualization possibilities for resources and capabilities, leading
to notions of Industrial Internet, Sensing Enterprise, Internet of
Events, etc.
Moving from services, provided by a single entity, to more complex or
integrated multi-stakeholder services calls for new approaches in
dynamic service composition aimed at effective support of the
“collaboration” perspective. This is a fundamental step in reducing
the gap between the notions of software service, technical service,
and business service.

Collaborative Networks not only benefit from such new possibilities,
these provide some fundamental elements supporting the structural and
behavioural models, value systems and value creation, and the business
perspective of collaborative networks. On the other hand, development
of the so-called Services Science adds clarification to the semantics
of the service concept in which context synergies with collaborative
networks need to be further explored.

The accumulated body of empiric knowledge and the size of the involved
research community in Collaborative Networks provide the basis for
leveraging the potential of new concepts and mechanisms in addressing
big societal challenges and consolidating the scientific discipline on
“Collaborative Networks”. Such discipline is strongly
multidisciplinary and thus PRO-VE Working Conference is designed to
offer a major opportunity to mix contributions from Computer Science,
Engineering, Economics, Managementl and Socio-Human communities.
The main theme of PRO-VE’12 focuses thus on crucial aspects to empower
Collaborative Networks as a main actor of change in society.

PRO-VE, as the most focused scientific / technical conference in the
area, offers a major opportunity for the presentation and discussion
of both latest research developments and industrial practice case
studies. Following the IFIP international mission, the PRO-VE
conference offers a forum for collaboration among different regions of
the world. This conference continues a series of successful
conferences of PRO-VE’99 (Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000
(Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE’02 (Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE’03
(Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE’04 (Toulouse, France), PRO-VE’05
(Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE’06 (Helsinki, Finland), PRO-VE’07
(Guimarães, Portugal), PRO-VE’08 (Poznan, Poland), PRO-VE’09
(Thessaloniki, Greece), PRO-VE’10 (St. Etienne, France), and PRO-VE’11
(S. Paulo, Brazil).


TOPICS

A plurality of scientific communities in Computer Science,
Engineering, Economics, Management and Socio-Human sciences are
encouraged to submit. Both theoretical works and sound case studies
are expected. The conference will include technical papers and
discussion panels. Proposals for organizing associated events, namely
by project consortia focused on the area of Collaborative Networks are
welcome.
* Future Internet – concepts and mechanisms
- Internet of Services
- Service infrastructures
* Cloud Computing and Collaborative Networks
- Cloud computing architectures in support of collaboration
- Business approaches and models
- Services ScienceModelling and formalization
- Service ecologies and Service parks
* Software service-oriented architecture
- Service composition
- Semantic service discovery
* Collaborative Business Processes and Service Composition
- Integrated services / value-added services
- Business process and service composition
* Collaborative Cyber Physical Systems
- CPS Infrastructures
- Sensing Enterprise and Internet of Events
- Collaborative CPS societies
* Behavioral issues and governance
- Typologies of collaborative behaviours
- Trust modelling and management
- Risk and uncertainty management
- Serious games in CN
- Affective computing in CN
* Collaborative Networks and Big Societal Challenges
- Role of CNs in addressing big emerging challenges
- Case studies and new directions
* Application areas (examples)
- Eco-Industrial Parks
- Healthcare collaborative systems
- Active Ageing Networks
- Ambient Assisted Living networks
- Distributed manufacturing networks
- Educational networks
- Transportation and mobility support networks
- Collaborative e-government
- Agribusiness networks
- Disaster rescue networks

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. However, prospective authors should submit a short abstract
in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the
conference scope.

Proceedings to be published by Springer.
Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers.