Call For Papers

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 First International Conference

INTEROP-ESA’2005

Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications

Geneva, Switzerland, February 21 - 25, 2005

Organised by IST-508-011 INTEROP NoE and

Supported by IFIP

Scope

The interoperability in enterprise applications can be defined as the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the customer or user. The possibility to interact and exchange information with internal and external collaborators is a key issue in the enterprise sector. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and services quickly, at lower cost, while maintaining higher levels of quality and customisation. Interoperability is considered achieved if the interaction can, at least, take place at the three levels: data, applications and business enterprise through the architecture of the enterprise model and taking into account the semantics. It is not only a problem of software and IT technologies. It implies support of communication and transactions between different organisations that must be based on shared business references.

The INTEROP-ESA conference aims at bringing together researchers, users and practitioners dealing with different issues of Interoperability of Enterprise Applications and Software. The conference will focus on interoperability related research areas ranging like Enterprise Modeling to define interoperability requirements, Architecture and Platforms to provide implementation frameworks and Ontologies to define interoperability semantics in the enterprise.

Topics

Papers are invited in the areas of interoperability, presenting original work and not previously published from academics and professionals. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• Enterprise and networked enterprises Modeling Methods, Tools and frameworks

• Methods, Models, and Tools for intra and inter-organizations interoperability

• Interoperable Inter-enterprise Workflow Systems

• Knowledge Management, Metadata and ontologies for  interoperability solutions

• Requirements Engineering for Interoperable Enterprise ontologies

• Design principles and patterns for interoperability

• Good practices and solutions for interoperability development

• Standards for enterprise integration and interoperability

• Theory and practice of modeling languages

• Management of Distributed Enterprise Models

• Synchronisation and Interoperability of Distributed Enterprise Models

• Support for Co-operative Work

• Enterprise Applications Analysis and semantic elicitation

• Architectures and platforms for interoperability

• Ubiquity, Mobility, Open Architectures and large scale interoperability

• Model Driven Architectures

• Experiments and case studies of systems’ interoperability

• Interoperability of autonomous systems

• Service oriented Architectures

• Interoperability of Digital Rights Management Systems

Information for Authors

Submissions must be no longer than 12 pages in length. Formatting instructions can be found in the conference paper template document.

Please identify the author responsible for correspondence, including name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.

The conference proceedings will be published after the conference (and will be send by post to the registered participants). Papers will be included in the proceedings only if they are presented by one of the authors at the INTEROP-ESA 2005 conference.

Selected papers will be published in special issues of International Scientific Journals

Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format using the tool available at the conference site : http://interop-esa05.unige.ch.

 For more information please visit our web site http://interop-esa05.unige.ch/ or send a message to interop-esa05@cui.unige.ch.

Workshop, Tutorials & Invited Sessions

The INTEROP-ESA'2005 conference also encourages the submission of invited sessions with sets of six invited papers on well-defined subjects of current interest belonging to the scope of the conference.

An invited session will be accepted only if the session and its 6 papers are accepted. Accepted papers of a non-accepted invited session will be transferred into regular sessions.

 Organizers of tutorials and workshops, which will be organized in conjunction with the conference as a pre-Congress program, are encouraged to submit their proposals which will be reviewed by the conference IPC.

For all of these proposals, organisers should submit a descriptive abstract to the Workshops, Tutorials and Invited Sessions co-chairs using the on-line forms available at the site. For questions and clarifications you can send an e-mail t the WTIS co-chairs interop-esa-chair@cui.unige.ch.

Doctoral Symposium

Doctoral students interested to participate in the Doctoral Symposium are requested to submit a two pages abstract, or a full paper no longer than 10 pages, together with a supporting letter from their PhD supervisor to the Doctoral Symposium chair: interop-esa-doctoral-chair@cui.unige.ch

Doctoral Symposium
Papers and letters due: January 3, 2005
Acceptance notification: January 10, 2005
Doctoral Symposium: February 21-22, 2005

 Important Deadlines

Papers

 Workshops, Tutorials & Invited Sessions

Doctoral Symposium

Registration