International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2012)
"Collaboration, Interoperability and Services for Networked Enterprises"
September 6th- 7th, 2012, Harbin, China


Organized by Harbin Institute of Technology
And IFIP Working Group 5.8 ??Enterprise Interoperability??
with the support of INTEROP_VLab(European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability) and
the China Pole of INTEROP_VLab
HTTP://ices.hit.edu.cn/IWEI2012/
SCOPE
In the global economic world and new networked environment, the success of an enterprise more and more depends on its ability to seamlessly interoperate with other agile enterprises. Enterprise collaboration, interoperability and services are important approaches to empower enterprises for creating new business value in global competition. The IFIP IWEI (International Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability) conferences, which are held by the IFIP TC5 WG 5.8 (Enterprise Interoperability), aim at identifying and discussing challenges and solutions with respect to enterprise interoperability, both at the business and the technical level. Since 2008, three IFIP IWEI conferences have been held in Munich(2008), Valencia(2009) and Stockholm(2011) respectively. In September 2012, the IFIP IWEI conference will be held in Harbin, China. This conference focuses on collaboration, interoperability and services for networked enterprises, and will promote to develop the scientific foundation for enterprise collaboration and interoperability, the framework for addressing interoperability challenges from different viewpoints, the new IT and business approaches for enterprise interoperability, the methods and models to evaluate interoperability solutions, and the practical solutions of enterprise interoperability.
TOPICS OF INTERESTS
?Knowledge-oriented business collaboration
?Interoperability service utility
?Science base for enterprise interoperability
?Future Internet enterprise systems
?Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and enterprise interoperability
?Interoperability through service discovery and composition
?Orchestration of services
?Mediation between services
?Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Model Driven Interoperability (MDI)
?Enterprise modeling and methodology for enterprise interoperability
?Model-to-model transformations
?Cloud Computing for Enterprises
?Cloud Manufacturing
?Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and enterprise interoperability
?Enterprise architecture for enterprise interoperability
?SaaS based platforms for enterprise services
?Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
?Business ecosystem modeling & simulation
?Service engineering for business and enterprises
?Middleware and infrastructure approaches to facilitate and enhance interoperability
?Business-IT alignment for interoperability
?Reference ontology and mapping mechanisms
?Self-organisation and adaptation for interoperability
?Semantic annotations for information interoperability;
?Coordination and negotiation in networks of businesses;
?Cross-organizational business processes
?Maturity models and quality criteria for evaluating interoperability solutions
?Modeling, analysis and validation of enterprise interoperability
?Operation research theory and methods for enterprise interoperability
?Non-functional aspects of interoperability, such as privacy, QoS, and reputation
?IoT and IoS for enterprise interoperability
?Interoperability requirements, approaches and solutions in specific sectors
?Interoperability approaches for ERP, SCM, CRM, MES, PLM, etc
?Case studies and experience reports on enterprise interoperability solutions
IMPORTANT DATES
- Full paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2012
- Author notification due: May 10th , 2012
- Camera-ready copies due: June 1st , 2012
- Conference: September 6th ?C 7th , 2012
PUBLICATION
The conference proceedings of IWEI 2012 will be published by Springer.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The working conference welcomes submissions of full papers (8 to 14 pages long) and position papers (around 4 pages). Submitted papers should describe original results or ideas, or new insights gained from cases studies or applications, and should not be submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Submitted papers must be in English and should comply with the Springer LNBIP format guidelines (see author instructions for LNBIP authors on http://www.springer.com/series/7911). Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the IWEI 2012 conference system hosted by EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwei2012 ). All submitted papers will be formally peer reviewed by at least three reviewers.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
General Chairs
????Xiaofei XU, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
????Guy Doumeingts, INTEROP-VLab / University Bordeaux 1, France
Steering Committee
Degang Cui, AVIC, China
Guy Doumeingts, INTEROP-VLab / University Bordeaux 1, France
Tao Huang, Institute of Software, CAS, China
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kai Mertins, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Program Committee
Chairs
????Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
????Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Members
Khalid Benali, LORIA - Nancy Universit??, France
Peter Bernus, University Griffith, Australia
Ricardo Chalmeta, University of Jaume I, Spain
David Chen, Universit?? Bordeaux 1, France
Antonio DeNicola, LEKS-IASI-CNR, Italy
Yves Ducq, Universit?? Bordeaux 1, France
Ip-Shing Fan, Cranfield University, UK
Ricardo Goncalves, New University of Lisbon, UNINOVA, Portugal
Claudia Guglielmina, TXT e-solutions, Italy
Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-solutions, Italy
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Jenny Harding, Loughborough University, UK
Roland Jochem, University of Kassel, Germany
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Stephan Kassel, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany
Bernhard Katzy, University of Munich, Germany
Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Association, Germany
Xiaoping Li, South-East University, China
Lanfen Lin, Zhejiang University, China
Shijun Liu, Shandong University, China
Jean-Pierre Lorre, PEtALS Link, France
Philippe Mahey, University Blaise Pascal, France
Michiko Matsuda, Kanagawa Inst. of Technology, Japan
Lanshun Nie, Harbin Institute of Technology
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Angel Ortiz, Polytecnic University of Valencia, Spain
Herv?? Panetto, UHP Nancy I, France
Raul Poler, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Alain Quilliot , University Blaise Pascal, France
Raquel Sanchis, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Germany
Raymond Slot, Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands
Bruno Vallespir, Universit?? Bordeaux 1, France
Nianbin Wang, Harbin Engineering University
Alain Wegmann, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland
George Weichart, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Jun Wei, Institute of Software, CAS, China
Junfeng Zhan, Institute of Standardization, China
Li Zhang, BUAA, China
Cuilian Zhao, Shanghai University, China
Yunlong Zhu, Institute of Automation Shenyang, CAS, China
Local Organization Committee
Chairs
Dechen Zhan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Cathy Lieu, INTEROP-VLab, Belgium
Members
Shengchun Deng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Ting He, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Quanglong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Xiaofeng Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hui Luo, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Lanshun Nie, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hanchuan Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
ORGANIZERS

IFIP(International Federation for Information Exchange)
www.ifip.org

INTEROP_VLab( European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability)
www.interop-vlab.eu

INTEROP_VLab( European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability) China Pole

Harbin Institute of Technology
www.hit.edu.cn