CFP: 10th Intl IEEE EDOC Conference "The Enterprise Computing Conference"

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Tenth International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2006) "The Enterprise =
Computing Conference"
16-20 October 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.edocconference.org (http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~edoc06/)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (approval pending),
IEEE Communications Society
Supported by IEEE IT Professional
ACM SIGSOFT
Co-hosted by City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The EDOC Conference is the primary annual event focusing on the =
convergence of the paradigms, technologies and methods involved in =
enterprise computing. EDOC 2006 is the tenth event in the series of =
conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading researchers, =
policy makers, architects and practitioners from academia, industry and =
government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and =
solutions.

Today the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing =
systems raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and =
policy modelling through to the deployment of specific implementation =
technologies and paradigms, and involve a wide (and ever growing) range =
of methods, models, tools and technologies. They also cover a broad =
spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and =
mobile commerce to real-time business applications for the extended =
enterprises, e.g., business processes integration, management, execution =
and monitoring.

The EDOC Conference emphasises the integration and management of =
enterprise computing research and development results, fostering an =
enterprise and social organizational engineering approach that can =
address and relate business, application, middleware and technical =
levels. The themes of openness and distributed computing, based on =
services, components and objects, provide a useful and unifying =
conceptual thread for this purpose.

TOPICS

The EDOC program committee seeks high-quality papers addressing the =
domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved =
in building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. =
Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:

* Enterprise computing - support for business processes
* Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related protocols such as =
BPEL, WSLA, WSDL and SOAP.
* Modelling for enterprise computing, integration and management, and =
relating business models to system specifications
* Intra- or inter- enterprise for business-to-business control
* Enterprise computing security, privacy and trust considerations and =
objectives
* Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in =
enterprise computing=20
* Enterprise computing concepts for specific domains, including=20
=A0 - Electronic and mobile commerce
=A0 - Real-time applications for the extended enterprise, e.g. business =
activity monitoring
=A0 - Vertical domains such as finance, telecommunications, automotive, =
aerospace, command & control and healthcare
* Enterprise computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
* Enterprise requirements engineering and modelling
* Enterprise architecture design and modelling
* Design and modelling paradigms for enterprise computing, including
=A0 - Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and other model-driven approaches
=A0 - Service- and component-oriented development and architecture
=A0 - Collaborative development and cooperative engineering
* IT aspects of inter-enterprise collaboration and virtual enterprises
* Integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information
* Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) issues in =
enterprise computing
* Quality-assurance of enterprise computing systems
* Evolution and management of enterprise computing systems
* Integration of sensing and tracking technologies in enterprise systems
* Interoperability models, platforms, and techniques
* Realization technologies for enterprise computing, including
=A0 - Ontology and Semantic Web support
=A0 - Middleware standards and systems, such as CORBA, WS, J2EE and .NET
=A0 - Modelling and description languages, such as XML, RDF, OWL and UML
* Enterprise computing tools and tool chains
* Human and social organizational settings of enterprise computing
* Organization and principles of software factories
* Commercialization of enterprise computing technologies
* Case studies

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Two types of paper submissions will be accepted: research papers and =
experience reports. Research papers should describe original research =
results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication =
elsewhere. These papers will be evaluated for scientific or technical =
contribution, originality, appropriateness and significance. Submissions =
should not exceed 12 pages in the IEEE format. Experience reports should =
describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of =
enterprise computing technology in practice. These papers will be =
evaluated on their appropriateness, significance and clarity of =
expression. Submissions should contain at least 2,000 words and must not =
exceed 5,000 words.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer =
Society Press and accessable in the IEEE Xplore. All conference papers =
are indexed in IEE Inspec, EI Compendex and SCI (Thompson). In addition, =
the conference papers are also referenced in DBLP.

All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international =
program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the =
case of experience reports. All submissions must be in English. =
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF (preferred) or =
PostScript format via the electronic submission system via the EDOC =
Conference Management system. The conference proceedings will be printed =
by the IEEE Press.

JOURNALS ASSOCIATED WITH EDOC 2006=20

The selected best research papers will be considered for special issues =
in Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) and possibly other top notch =
journals. Further details will be announced soon.

The selected best industry- and application-oriented papers will be =
considered for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, =
and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C: Applications & Reviews to be published in =
the end of 2007.

A post-conference article will be published on IEEE IT Professional in =
Nov-Dec 2006. The article will cover the important topics and issues =
discussed in the conference. Please visit the IEEE IT Professional Web =
site for further information.

WORKSHOPS

VORTE: Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise=20
MWS: Middleware for Web Services=20
IWMEC: Models for Enterprise Computing=20
TEAR: Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research=20
CoALa: Contract Architectures and Languages=20
WODPEC: ODP for Enterprise Computing=20
AQuSerM: Advances in Quality of Service Management=20
EDM: Electronic Document Management in an Enterprise Computing =
Environment=20
SISS: Service Intelligence and Service Science=20

Please check http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~edoc06/workshops.html for =
further details.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 21 April =
2006 (Extended Deadline)
Paper Acceptance notification:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 2 June 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary Conference Chairs:
Keith Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Frances Yao (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

General Chair
Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, =
Canada)

Program Co-Chairs
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Don Sparrow (MITRE, USA)

Workshop Chair
Antonio Vallecillo (University of Malaga, Spain)

Publicity Co-Chairs
Barrett Bryant (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
Kamalakar Karlapalem (International Institute of Information Technology, =
India)

Local Organization Chair
Hong Va Leong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Finance Chair
Howard Leung (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Registration Chair
Alvin Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Industrial Liaison Officer
Kenneth Lau (ICON Ltd, Hong Kong)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Colin Atkinson, Chair (University of Mannheim, Germany)=20
Keith Duddy (DSTC, Australia)
Zoran Milosevic (Deontik, Australia)
Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA)=20
Alain Wegmann (EPFL, Switzerland)=20
Barrett Bryant (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
Marten J. van Sinderen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Maarten Steen (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jan-Oyvind Aagedal (SINTEF, Norway)
Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
Dave Akehurst (University of Kent, UK)
Markus Aleksy (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Anne Anderson (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA)
Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Claudio Bartolini (HP Laboratories, USA)
Andrew Berry (Deontik, Australia)
Chris Bussler (Cisco Systems, USA)
Coral Calero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Shermann Chan (Waseda University, Japan)
Patrick Y.K. Chau (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zhou Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Reynold Cheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
S.C. Cheung (The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Chia-Chu Chiang (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)
Geoffrey Coulson (University of Lancaster, UK)
Fred Cummins (EDS, USA)
Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Oscar Diaz (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Masayoshi Ejiri (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan)
Damiani Ernesto (University of Milan, Italy)
Casey K. Fung (Boeing Phantom Works, USA)
Stephane Gagnon (NJIT, USA)
Gerald Gannod (Arizona State University, USA)
Tracy Gardner (IBM Hursley, UK)
Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany)
Claude Godart (Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy and INRIA, France)
Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Jaime Gomez (University of Alicante, Spain)
Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan (NTU, Singapore)
Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Jan Hendrik Hausmann (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Yigal Hoffner (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switerland)
Pontus Johnson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Eleanna Kafeza (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Henry Kim (York University, Canada)
Axel Korthaus (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Thomas Kuhne (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)
Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Thomas Y. Kwok (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Marc Lankhorst (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands)
Fion Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ying Li (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Yaping Lin (Hunan University, China)
Peter F. Linington (University of Kent, UK)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Munich University, Germany)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Qusay H. Mahmoud (Univesity of Guelph, Canada)
Miguel Vargas Martin (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, =
Canada)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Wilfred Ng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong =
Kong)
Roy Oishi (ARINC, USA)
Francois Pacull (Xerox Research Europe, France)
George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Katia Passerini (NJIT, USA)
Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)
Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China)
Luis Ferreira Pires (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Frantisek Plasil (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Thomas Preuss (Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Germany)
Dick Quartel (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Rajeev Raje (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis, USA)
Kerry Raymond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Tom Ritter (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany)
Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute, Italy)
Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA)
Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Richard Mark Soley (OMG, USA)
Susanne Strahringer (European Business School, Germany)
Yazhe Tang (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
David Taniar (Monash University, Australia)
Michiaki Tatsubori (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia)
Vladimir Tosic (Lakehead University, Canada)
Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe (Open-IT, UK)
Changzhou Wang (Boeing, USA)
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Andrew Watson (OMG, USA)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Raymond Wong (NICTA & UNSW, Australia)
Bryan Wood (Open-IT, UK)
Christopher C. Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
Benjamin Yen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jeffrey Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Christian Zeidler (ABB Corporate Research, Germany)
Dan Zhang (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Wei Zhao (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Kangmin Zheng (MITRE, USA)
Haibin Zhu (Nipissing University, Canada)

Note: All enquires about the conference program should send to the =
program co-chairs Prof. Qing Li (itqli AT cityu.edu.hk) and Dr. Don =
Sparrow (dsparrow AT mitre.org).
All enquires about workshops should send to Prof. Antonio Vallecillo (av =
AT lcc.uma.es) or the specific workshop chairs.