Thirteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2009)
"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
(IEEE approval pending)

31 August - 4 September 2009, Auckland, New Zealand
https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/


--- Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals ---

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The IEEE EDOC Conference is the key annual event in enterprise computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2009 will be the thirteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government. The TEAA conference (Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture) became part of EDOC in 2008, which further enriches the scientific program and publication scope of the conference.
Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies. The resulting applications also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises. In recent years, technologies related to business processes integration, management, execution and monitoring have become some of the top areas of interest in enterprise computing. Today, the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems create challenges that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling to the deployment and maintenance of solutions in and across customer businesses.
The IEEE EDOC Conference emphasizes a holistic view on enterprise applications engineering and management, fostering integrated approaches that can address and relate processes, people and technology. The themes of openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and objects, provide a useful and unifying conceptual framework.
IEEE EDOC 2009 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as papers on enterprise computing industry experiences. Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address hot topics and issues in the domain.


TOPICS

The IEEE EDOC conference seeks high-quality contributions 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 Application Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
- Model based approaches
- Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven software development
- Recent UML based approaches
- Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
- Reference architecture based approaches
- Standards for enterprise application architecture and enterprise architecture
- Enterprise modeling
- Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues
- Organization and principles of software factories
- Service oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA)
- Evolution of service engineering specifications
- Semantics based service engineering
- Enterprise service bus approaches
- Event driven architectures
- Service oriented architecture governance
- Service policies and contract definitions and enforcement
- Security policy definition and description languages
- Security policy interoperability
- Business process management (BPM)
- Business process models and metamodels
- Business process monitoring and intelligence
- Dynamically configurable business processes
- People integration in BPM systems
- Cross-organizational business processes
- Business rules
- Business rules languages and inference systems
- Business rules components
- Rule driven business process engines
- Information integration and interoperability
- Business object model methodologies and approaches
- Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
- Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing

Enterprise Applications Implementation and Management
- Enterprise applications deployment and governance
- Maturity models for enterprise applications
- Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement
- Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS)
- Total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise scale solutions
- Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems
- Information assurance
- Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing
- State of the art in distributed enterprise applications
- Evolution of middleware standards, such as Java EE or .NET
- Application server solution design and deployment
- Industry specific solutions, e.g. for aerospace, automotive, finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications
- Research and public sector collaboration, e.g. in
- e-health
- e-government
- e-science
- Inter-enterprise collaboration and its architecture
- Social information and innovation networks
- Software support for social networks
- Social network building and supporting infrastructures
- Social network analytical approaches

Enterprise Computing Infrastructures
- Autonomic computing and self-managing platforms
- Self-managing and self-optimizing enterprise platforms
- Autonomic computing approaches and solutions
- Grid computing approaches
- Integration of converging communications technologies
- Integration of embedded and mobile systems
- Mobile networks and ambient intelligence
- Identity management and distributed access control
- Distributed and federated access control
- Network public key infrastructures
- Service provisioning
- Security technology interoperability
- Inference mechanisms for policy enforcement


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Two types of paper submissions will be accepted ・a) scientific research papers, and b) industry experience reports or case studies.
Scientific research papers should describe original 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.
Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of enterprise computing technology in practice, contribute important feedback about the state of practice and how current research is applied, and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity.
Papers should be limited to 10 pages in length.
All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html). All submissions must be in English.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system (hosted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2009). All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library.


WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

We are inviting proposals for workshops on innovative research and industry-related topics. Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics in enterprise computing in a small and interactive atmosphere. Proposals should include the workshop title, the names and a brief (200-word) biography for each organizer and a summary of the workshop contents (approximately 1-2 pages, i.e. 500-1000 words). For detailed information about workshop submissions and relevant deadlines, see the EDOC 2009 web site.


PANEL PROPOSALS

We invite proposals for EDOC 2009 panels that will provide lively, interactive discussions of timely, significant and debatable (or even controversial) topics related to enterprise computing practice or dissemination of research results into practice. The panels should present the topics from several perspectives and different points of view and will engage the audience into a reflective dialog. Panel proposals should include the panel title; names, affiliations, contact details, and short biographies of the moderator and 3-4 panelists; and the panel abstract (about 250-500 words). For detailed information about panel proposals submissions and relevant deadlines, see the EDOC 2009 web site.


POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

The authors of a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue (details will be announced later). In previous years, selected papers from EDOC have been published in Springer痴 Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), and International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).


IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop proposals due: 16 February 2009
Workshop acceptance notification: 23 February 2009
Paper abstract submission: 3 March 2009
Full paper submission due: 10 March 2009
Paper acceptance notification: 19 May 2009
Panel proposals due: 31 May 2009
Panel acceptance notification: 7 June 2009
Camera-ready papers due: 9 June 2009


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
Gerald Weber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Program Chairs:
Joao Paulo A. Almeida (Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Workshops and Panels Chair:
Vladimir Tosic (NICTA, Australia)

Publicity Chairs:
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Keith Duddy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Local Organization Chair:
Ian Warren (University of Auckland, New Zealand)


STEERING COMMITTEE

Colin Atkinson, Chair (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Barrett Bryant (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
Keith Duddy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Zoran Milosevic (Deontik, Australia)
Donald W. Sparrow, Jr. (MITRE Corporation, USA)
Maarten Steen (Telematica Instituut, Netherlands)
Marten J. Van Sinderen (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA)
Alain Wegmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Dirk Draheim (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Marcus Spies (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)

Jan-Oyvind Aagedal (Telenor, Norway)
Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
Markus Aleksy (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Ilkay Altintas (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Joao Paulo A. Almeida (Fed. Univ of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Jose Enrique Armendariz-Inigo (Universidad P炻lica de Navarra, Spain)
Claudio Bartolini (Hewlett-Packard, USA)
James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Hubert Baumeister (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Andrew Berry (Deontik, Australia)
Jean Bezivin (University of Nantes, France)
Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA)
Behzad Bordbar (Birmingham University, UK)
Indranil Bose (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zhou Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Reynold Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Chia-Chu Chiang (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
Dickson Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)
Myra B. Cohen (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
Fred Cummins (EDS, USA)
Judith Cushing (The Evergreen State College, USA)
Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Boudewijn v. Dongen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Dirk Draheim (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)
Keith Duddy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Juergen Ebert (Universitaet Koblenz, Germany)
Dieter Fensel (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria)
Stephane Gagnon (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Gerald Gannod (Arizona State University, USA)
Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Claude Godart (Universite Henri Poincare, Nancy and INRIA, France)
Martin Gogolla (Universitaet Bremen, Germany)
Guido Governatori (University of Queensland, Australia)
Tyrone Grandison (IBM Research Almaden, USA)
Norbert Gronau (Universitaet Potsdam, Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Fed. Univ of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Richard Hall (Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, France)
Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Raj Jain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Pontus Johnson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Eleanna Kafeza (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Alexander Knapp (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Axel Korthaus (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Evangelos Kotsovinos (Morgan Stanley, UK)
Thomas Kuehne (Victoria University, Wellington)
Josef Kueng (Johannes Kepler Universitaet, Linz)
Ashish Kundu (Purdue University, USA)
Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Thomas Kwok (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Heinrich Hussmann (Munich University, Germany)
Marc Lankhorst (Telematica Instituut, Netherlands)
Fion Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Gunther Lenz (Microsoft, USA)
Hans Lenz (Free University Berlin, Germany)
Ho-fung Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Grace Lewis (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Frank Leymann (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca (University of Sannio, Italy)
Christof Lutteroth (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Yaping Lin (Hunan University, China)
Peter Linington (University of Kent, UK)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Munich University, Germany)
Nolwen Mahe (SAP Labs, Canada)
Qusay Mahmoud (University of Guelph, Canada)
Florian Matthes (TUM, Germany)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Josephine Micallef (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA)
Roland Mittermeir (Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria)
Frederic Montagut (SAP Research, France)
Jishnu Mukerji (Hewlett Packard, USA)
Jan Newmarch (Monash University, Australia)
Toyohiro Nomoto (Hitachi Systems Development Lab, Japan)
Francois Pacull (Xerox Research Europe, France)
George Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)
Luis Ferreira Pires (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Frantisek Plasil (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Thomas Preuss (Fachhochschule Brandenburg, Germany)
Iman Hafiz Poernomo (King's College, UK)
Dick Quartel (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Vijaykumar Rachamadugu (MITRE Corporation, USA)
Rajeev Raje (Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA)
Kerry Raymond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Tom Ritter (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany)
Jose Raul Romero (University of Cordoba, Spain)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Massey University, New Zealand)
Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Marten Schoenherr (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Alan P. Sexton (University of Birmingham, UK)
Dennis Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Tony Shan (Wachovia Bank, USA)
Timothy Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Yuqing Sun (Shandong University, China)
Richard Soley (Object Management Group, USA)
Susanne Strahringer (European Business School, Germany)
Yazhe Tang (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Raj Tanikella (Siemens, USA)
Michiaki Tatsubori (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia)
Bernhard Thalheim (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Germany)
Dan Toft (IBM Rochester, USA)
Vladimir Tosic (NICTA, Australia)
David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK)
Can Tuerker (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
Antonio Vallecillo (University of Malaga, Spain)
Pieter van Gorp (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Mark van den Brand (Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Hans Vangheluwe (McGill University, Canada)
Marlon E. Vieira (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
Gerd Wagner (Universitaet Cottbus, Germany)
Changzhou Wang (Boeing, USA)
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Rajeev Wankar (University of Hyderabad, India)
Andrew Watson (Object Management Group, USA)
Gerald Weber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Edward Willink (Thales Research and Technology, UK)
Martin Wirsing (LMU Munich, Germany)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Huaigu Wu (SAP Labs, Canada)
Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Benjamin Yen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Byunggu Yu (University of Wyoming, USA)
Xiaofeng Yu (Nanjing University, China)
Michael Zapf (University of Kassel, Germany)
Christian Zeidler (ABB Corporate Research, Germany)
Dan Zhang (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)

Note: EDOC program inquiries should be sent to program co-chairs, Jo縊 Paulo A. Almeida (jpalmeida (at) ieee.org) and Gillian Dobbie (gill (at) cs.auckland.ac.nz).