Twelfth International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008)
"The Enterprise Computing Conference"

15-19 September 2008, Munich, Germany
http://www.edocconference.org


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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 enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2008 will be the twelfth event in the series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions.
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 one 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.
The 2008 EDOC conference will welcome 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. The TEAA conference (Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture) will become part of EDOC in 2008 and further enrich the scientific program and publication scope of the conference.



TOPICS
The 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 Methodology
- Model based approaches to enterprise applications
- Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven SW development
- Recent UML based approaches
- Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
- Reference architecture based approaches
- Standards for Enterprise Application Architecture
- 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 BPs
- 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

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

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
- Social information and innovation networks
- SW support for social networks
- Social network building and supporting infrastructures
- Social network analytical approaches
- Information integration and interoperability
- Business object model methodologies and approaches
- Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
- Master data management for the real-time enterprise (RTE)




SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Two types of paper submissions will be accepted �?�scientific research papers and 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. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity.
Experience reports and a small selection of short papers from the scientific contributions will be allocated a maximum of seven pages, full length scientific papers a maximum of 10 pages in the conference proceedings.
All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines. 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. 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.



WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We are inviting proposals for workshops both on innovative research and business related topics. Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics in enterprise computing in a small and interactive atmosphere. Workshops can choose to concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues. 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 details of workshop submissions and relevant deadlines, see our web site



POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION "Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture"
The authors for a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers to be published in the Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture�?�volume, to appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP).



IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop proposals due: 3 March 2008
Workshop acceptance notification: 10 March 2008
Paper abstract submission (optional): 28 March 2008
Full paper submission due: 10 April 2008
Industry track sessions planning due: 18 April 2008
Paper acceptance notification: 3 June 2008
Camera-ready papers due 24 June 2008



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Marcus Spies (LMU Munich, Germany, and DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Program Chairs:
Gerald Weber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Martin Wirsing (LMU Munich, Germany)
Workshop Chair:
Antonio Vallecillo (University of Malaga, Spain)
Publicity Chairs:
Remco Dijkman (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Industry Liaison Chair:
Uwe Zeithammer (Fujitsu Services, Germany)
Local Organization Chairs:
Sascha Lahme (SIGS Datacom, Germany)
Lars Tams (SIGS Datacom, Germany)



STEERING COMMITTEE
Colin Atkinson, Chair (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Barrett Bryant (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
Keith Duddy (DSTC, 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)



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jan-Ayvind Aagedal (Telenor, Norway)
Witold Abramowicz (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
Dave Akehurst (University of Kent, UK)
Markus Aleksy (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Ilkay Altintas (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Joao Paulo Almeida (Fed. Univ of Espirito Santo, Brazil and Univ of Twente, Netherlands)
Jose Enrique Armendariz-Inigo (Universidad P�?�lica de Navarra, Spain)
Claudio Bartolini (Hewlett-Packard, USA)
James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Hubert Baumeister (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Andrew Berry (Deontik, Australia)
Jim Bezdek (University of West Florida, USA)
Jean Bezivin (University of Nantes, France)
Martin Bichler (TUM, Germany)
Brian Blake (Georgetown University, USA)
Behzad Bordbar (Birmingham University, UK)
Indranil Bose (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Rajendra Bose (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc, USA)
Jordi Cabot (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
Coral Calero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Fei Cao (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Patrick Y.K. Chau (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)
Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Oscar Diaz (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Klaus R. Dittrich (Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland)
Gillian Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Boudewijn v. Dongen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Dirk Draheim (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria)
Juergen Ebert (Universitaet Koblenz, Germany)
Wolfgang Emmerich (Kings College London, UK)
Dieter Fensel (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria)
James Frew (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Stephane Gagnon (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Avigdor Gal (Technion Haifa, Israel)
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)
Martin Grosse-Rhode (Fraunhofer ISST, Germany)
Richard Hall (Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, France)
Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Jan Hendrik Hausmann (University of Paderborn, Germany)
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 (Siemens Corporate Research, 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)
Qing Li (City University, Hong Kong)
Yaping Lin (Hunan University, China)
Peter Linington (University of Kent, UK)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Munich University, Germany)
Sonia Lippe (SAP Research, France)
Nolwen Mahe (SAP Labs, Canada)
Qusay Mahmoud (University of Guelph, Canada)
Hermann Maurer (Universitaet Graz, Austria)
Florian Matthes (TUM, Germany)
Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Josephine Micallef (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA)
Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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)
Marcin Sikorski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
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 (National ICT Australia Limited)
David Trastour (Hewlett-Packard, UK)
Can Tuerker (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe (Birchquest Limited, UK)
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)
Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
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)
Wenbing Zhao (Cleveland State University)
Kangmin Zheng (MITRE Corporation, USA)

Note: EDOC program inquiries should be sent to program co-chairs, Gerald Weber (gerald (at) CS.AUCKLAND.AC.NZ) and Martin Wirsing (wirsing (at) informatik.uni-muenchen.de).