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Paper Submission Deadline: <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0,
0);">EXTENDED August 14, 2012</span></strong><br>
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Call for Papers - 3rd International Workshop on Cross Enterprise
Collaboration, People and Work (CEC-PAW'12)<br>
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href="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/cec-paw12">http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/cec-paw12</a><br>
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<p>The CEC-PAW workshop, held in conjunction with the <a
rel="nofollow" href="http://www.icsoc.org">International
Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC)</a>, explores
the application of service oriented concepts to the management
and coordination of people and work as they collaborate towards
a common goal in a dynamic ecosystem of partners, providers, and
suppliers. Globalization, specialization, and rapid innovation
are changing many aspects of both business and its operations.
Many large organizations that were once self-sufficient and that
could dictate processes to their service providers and suppliers
are now finding this model unsustainable. To remain competitive
and differentiate through innovation they must now collaborate
as peers with specialized partners, service providers, and
suppliers. Due to this increased complexity overall project
failures, uncontrollable delays, and significant financial
losses have been observed in many areas, such as global service
delivery or the development of next generation passenger
airplanes. This indicates the importance of finding new ways to
support cross-enterprise work, conceptually calling for a
framework that will support a dynamic “plug and play” modularity
of organizations in their different roles.</p>
<p>Many factors contribute to the intricacy of the problem of
cross-enterprise collaboration, including internal
interdependency/complexity, external unpredictability, conflicts
of interest, errors/faults, trust, reputation, conflict
resolution, orderly rollbacks and termination of collaboration.
Current approaches, including Service Oriented Computing (SOC),
Business Process Management (BPM), Command and Control (C2),
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Linguistics, and
Crowdsourcing, vary widely and address different aspects of the
problem. Cohesive and comprehensive research relating these
together and treating the problem in its totality remains to be
done.</p>
<p>There is growing awareness that the next quantum leap in IT
will be the application of Service Oriented concepts to optimize
how people do work in globally distributed ecosystems.
Principled methods to coordinate and optimize collaborative work
across enterprise boundaries have the potential to strongly
impact business and society.<br>
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<h2 class="pane-title">Call for Papers</h2>
<p>The CEC-PAW workshop encourages original research papers
related, but not limited, to the main themes and preliminary
research questions</p>
<ul>
<li>Decomposition of large projects into “chunks” that can be
dynamically assigned to different organizations for execution.</li>
<li>Operational agility in both setting up new operations to
accomplish a shared business objective as well as responding
to unpredictable events during execution.</li>
<li>Governance, safeguarding and securing management and
coordination across the collaborating enterprises and their
providers and suppliers.</li>
<li>Deep visibility into all aspects of work and process across
an ecosystem of partners, providers, and suppliers. Metrics,
sensors, and E2E monitoring that span both the horizontal
cross-enterprise collaboration and the vertical stacks of
providers and suppliers</li>
<li>Models, methods, formalisms, and languages that focus on the
control and coordination of cross-enterprise collaboration in
different domains</li>
<li>Extending SOA formalisms, encapsulations, and constructs to
facilitate the definition, dispatch, and orchestration of
human Work as a Service (WaaS) that can be carried out
interchangeably by qualified organizations.</li>
<li>IT, middleware, systems, tools, and framework that support
cross-enterprise collaboration, and their relationship with
current enterprise or domain tools and IT.</li>
<li>Dynamic flow engines that support cross-enterprise
collaboration models and patterns to provide the flexibility
required for runtime adaptation and evolution.</li>
<li>Context, data, and knowledge management as required for
managing and coordinating work across organizations and their
interrelationship with the domain data, tools, and processes.</li>
<li>The role of people and other resources in the management and
coordination of cross-enterprise work, such as the sensible
automation of human action, “human exception handling”,
utilization of Crowd Sourcing, cloud- and social-computing
paradigms for the coordination and execution of work that
spans across organizational boundaries.</li>
<li>Centralized and distributed models of coordination and
optimization of the doing of work, such as the application of
centralized Command and Control centers in Smart Cities.</li>
<li>Non-functional aspects such as trust and reputation,
quality, conflict resolution, orderly collaboration rollbacks
and termination in cross-organizational ecosystems definable
in service-level agreements.</li>
<li>Format and Program and Review Process</li>
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<p>The goal of this workshop is to foster research in the emerging
area of cross enterprise collaboration. We invite researchers
and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to exchange
ideas and collaboratively explore different aspects of this
area. A keynote address will be followed by presentations. The
workshop will end with a discussion aimed at identifying core
research challenges alongside promising approaches and concrete
next steps for future work. The outcome will be published as a
Manifesto in the workshop post-proceedings alongside the papers.</p>
<p>Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and
originality of the work and to their ability to generate
discussions among the participants of the workshop. <br>
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<h2 class="pane-title">Submission Instructions</h2>
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<p>Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research
papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be formatted according to the Springer formatting
guidelines, and submitted as PDF electronically through the
website EasyChair website at</p>
<p><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cecpaw2012"
rel="nofollow">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cecpaw2012</a></p>
<p>We invite research papers up to 12 pages in length and shorter
vision or position papers up to 5 pages.</p>
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