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 2011 will be the fifteenth 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.

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.

EDOC 2011 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.

EDOC2011 will be organised at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki.


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
* Service oriented (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA)
* Service oriented architecture governance
* Business process management (BPM)
* Business rules
* Information integration and interoperability

Networked Enterprise Solutions

* Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture
* Virtual organisations, including multiagent system support
* Digital ecosystems
* Trust management

Enterprise Applications Implementation and Management

* Enterprise applications deployment and governance
* State of the art in distributed enterprise applications

Enterprise Computing Infrastructures


Submission guidelines


Two types of paper submissions will be accepted scientific research papers, and industry experience reports or case studies. All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. All papers should be limited to 10 pages in length. 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.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 (IEEE approval pending).