Call for Journal Articles: Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS)

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

         Call for Articles for the IBIS Journal
- Interoperability in Business Information Systems -

Since the first issue of the IBIS journal has been published, we have =
had more than thousand downloads of the first issue =
(http://www.ibis-journal.net) and a lot of motivating feedback. The =
editors would like to thank the community for expressing their support. =
Now, we would like to encourage to submit articles for inclusion in the =
next issue of the International Journal of Interoperability in Business =
Information Systems.

We are interested in both theoretical and practical research. We are =
also interested in case studies and results of recently finished =
research projects. Although our focus is on research results, we also =
accept a small amount of practical articles. Contributions should be =
original and unpublished and are required to have a high quality.

Topics of the journal include, but are not limited to:
=A0=A0=A0 * Integration of business information systems
=A0=A0=A0 * Enterprise modeling for Interoperability
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability architectures and frameworks
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability of business standards
=A0=A0=A0 * Intelligent mediators
=A0=A0=A0 * Coupling of information systems
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability of classification systems
=A0=A0=A0 * (Semi-)Automatic transformation of standards
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability of (meta) models
=A0=A0=A0 * Semantic integration concepts
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability between domain specific standards
=A0=A0=A0 * Semantic analysis of structured, semi-structured, and =
unstructured data
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability of catalog based information systems
=A0=A0=A0 * Cooperation in heterogeneous information systems
=A0=A0=A0 * Ontology matching, merging and aligning
=A0=A0=A0 * Semantic combination of heterogeneous standards
=A0=A0=A0 * Ontology- and model management
=A0=A0=A0 * Interoperability of sector specific systems

Authors are encouraged to submit high quality articles online at =
http://www.ibis-journal.net. Please carefully look at the submission =
guidelines to prepare your submission. A template is provided for =
download on our website. All submissions must be made online using our =
online submission system.

In case of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email =
at: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Current timeline for issue 2:
=A0=A0=A0 * Submission deadline: 15.05.2006
=A0=A0=A0 * Acceptance notification: 05.06.2006
=A0=A0=A0 * Camera ready submission: 20.06.2006
=A0=A0=A0 * Publication of journal issue: 01.07.2006

International Journal of
Interoperability in Business
Information Systems (IBIS)
http://www.ibis-journal.net
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx