19th International Conference on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2011)

Crete, Greece, Oct 19 - 21, 2011



Acceptance rate of CoopIS in recent years was approx. 20%
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS series)

Call for Papers of CoopIS 2011

Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) provide enterprises and user communities with flexible, scalable and intelligent services in large-scale networking environments. Building next generation CIS requires technical breakthroughs as well as dynamic, reliable and secure collaborative information technologies
to overcome the tough challenges that traditional rigid distributed systems did not face. A particular challenge in modern enterprises and entire supply chains is providing flexible and real-world aware CIS that enable users to quickly react to environmental changes as well as to evolving needs (e.g., by continuously and dynamically adapting CIS).

The CIS paradigm has traditionally encompassed distributed systems technologies such as middleware, business process management (BPM) and Web technologies. In recent years, several innovative technologies are emerging: SaaS, cloud computing, Internet of Service, Internet of Things, Service Oriented Computing, mash-ups, Web Services, Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid. These new technologies enable us to consider more aggressive solutions for building flexible and scalable CIS.

CIS applications are heavily distributed and highly coordinated, often exhibiting inter-organizational interaction patterns and requiring distributed access and sharing of computing and information resources. Typically they fall under the categories such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health, and e-Science.

The CoopIS conference series has established itself as a major international forum for exchanging ideas and results on scientific research for practitioners in fields such as computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), middleware, Internet & Web data management, electronic commerce, business process management, agent technologies, and software architectures, to name a few. In addition, the 2011 edition of CoopIS aims to highlight the increasing need for flexible and real-world aware CIS .

As in previous years, CoopIS'11 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM ("OnTheMove") federated conferences, covering different aspects of distributed information systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'11 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:

Process Management Technologies
• Business process management and integration
• Distributed & cross-organizational process management
• Process modelling, analysis and design
• Variability, adaptation and evolution of process-aware CIS
• Business process intelligence & discovery
• Business process compliance, governance, and risk
• Integrated product and process lifecycle management
• Data- and knowledge-intensive processes
• Integrating processes with real-world events
• Process support in smart and ubiquitous environments
• Enabling interactions among processes

Middleware and Architectures for Cooperative Information Systems (CIS)
• Dynamic business networks and the Internet of Services
• Internet of Services and Internet of Things integration
• Service-oriented middleware & Web services
• Grid computing and cloud computing
• Semantic interoperability of CIS
• Web-centric information and processing architectures
• Self-adapting and self-healing CIS
• Model-driven middleware architectures
• Multi-agent systems and architectures for CIS
• Peer-to-peer technologies
• Security & privacy in CIS
• Quality of service in CIS
• Mediation, matchmaking, and brokering architectures
• Collaboration and negotiation protocols
• Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

CIS Applications
• Collaboration and knowledge sharing in enterprises
• Innovative CIS applications for large-scale organizations
• Advances in e-science and Grid computing applications
• Medical and biological information systems
• Industrial applications of CIS
• Mobile processes and services
• E-communities and Web-based collaboration
• Enterprise 2.0
• Integrated vs. distributed supply chains
• Concurrent engineering

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 14, 2011
Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 21, 2011
Notification: Aug 2, 2011
Camera Ready Due: Aug 13, 2011
Registration Due: Sep 3, 2011
CoopIS'11: Oct 19 - 21, 2011

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submitted to CoopIS'11 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper

Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

Chaired by:

Manfred Reichert
University of Ulm, Germany

Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong

Akhil Kumar
Penn State University, US


Program Committee

to be filled