<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>14th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises</div><div>Dresden, Germany, 30 September - 02 October 2013</div><div><br></div><div><b>Special Session on Building the Social Semantic Enterprise</b></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Scope</b></div><div><br></div><div>Organizations build and maintain many information systems to mange large volume of content</div><div>published and consumed by knowledge-intensive workers. These systems are interconnected both</div><div>internally, within an organization, and with systems external to the organization, for example news feed</div><div>on the Web . Such environments involve many peers, which share information within a large network</div><div>that is often distributed across various departments or sometimes even geographically. Such</div><div>distributed environment brings new challenges related to efficient synchronization and delivery of</div><div>information between interested peers (e.g. employees).</div><div><br></div><div>However, the contemporary organizational landscape follows a distributed model in which various</div><div>peers can both publish and consume information. This shift requires new approaches for delivery of</div><div>timely and relevant information in a close-to-real-time manner across such peer-to-peer (P2P)</div><div>networks. Many initiatives focus on building P2P wikis that combine the beneļ¬ts of mass collaboration</div><div>with the intrinsic qualities of peer-to-peer networks, such as scalability or fault-tollerance. The main</div><div>challenge in building such collaborative tools is to ensure the consistency of content replicated on</div><div>different peers. Although knowledge workers utilize many collaboration tools (e.g blogs, wikis), crucial</div><div>information is often not managed effectively what affects efficiency and generates additional spending.</div><div>To address this concern, organizations attempt to sustain information exchange through utilization of</div><div>social networking tools both internally and externally.</div><div><br></div><div>Once the social network is woven and social connections are established, it is important to gather and</div><div>reuse information available in this network. Thus, a distributed social network requires efficient data</div><div>synchronization tools to allow for timely updates and retrieval of relevant content.</div><div><br></div><div>In our session we shall present and discuss results of hands-on applications and practices followed</div><div>and recent case studies from the health, the finance, the electronics and the publishing / media</div><div>industries, looking critically into their commonalities and asking for challenges related to a wide gamut</div><div>of technical- and human-related aspects such as:</div><div><br></div><div>Transition from enterprise data silos to semantically linked enterprise networks</div><div>Valorisation of corporate semantic data</div><div>Spinning the social semantic web</div><div>Sociology theories for semantic social networks</div><div><br></div><div><b>Session Organizers</b></div><div>Dr Maciej Dabrowski, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland,</div><div>Galway, Ireland, E-mail: <a href="mailto:maciej.dabrowski@deri.org">maciej.dabrowski@deri.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Prof. Eleni Kaldoudi, School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece, E-mail:</div><div><a href="mailto:kaldoudi@med.duth.gr">kaldoudi@med.duth.gr</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Submission procedure</b></div><div>Special sessions are included in the main Conference and follow the same reviewing process.</div><div>Full papers submission: April, 26th, 2013</div><div>Acceptance Notice: May, 12th, 2013</div><div>Camera Ready Submission: May, 31th, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 8 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three</div><div>members of the International Program Committee. When submitting on the web site, you have to</div><div>indicate the name of the special session.</div><div><br></div><div>Submission on: <a href="http://www.pro-ve.org/">www.pro-ve.org</a> with copy by email to the chairs of the special session.</div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">Maciej Dabrowski<br>Unit for Social Software<br>t: +353 91 494052<br>l: <a href="http://ie.linkedin.com/in/macdab">ie.linkedin.com/in/macdab</a><br>s: maciasdab<br><br><br><br></div></div></body></html>