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Computing and Informatics Journal (CAI)
http://www.cai.sk/
Call for Papers
--------------- Special Issue on: "Business Collaboration Support for micro, small, and medium-sized Enterprises" http://tinyurl.com/BCSE2010
Guest Editors:
Prof. Schahram Dustdar, Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
Dr. Dirk Werth, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Germany
Dr. Christoph Dorn, Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
Important Dates
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- Abstract deadline: 15 June 2010
- Manuscript deadline: 30 June 2010
- Notification notice: 1 September 2010
- Revision deadline: 15 September 2010
- Final Decision notice: 30 September 2010
- Publication: February 2011 (tentative)
Overview
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Over the past decades, industry has been evolving from a vertically
integrated environment into an ecosystem of collaborating companies,
each providing specialized products, technologies, and services. Tight
business collaboration is now a fundamental concern and the key to
success in today’s dynamic business environment.
Although the vast majority of European enterprises are SMEs, enterprise
interoperability research and solutions have been successfully employed
only in large organizations. Business and communication assistance
systems for SMEs face two main challenges. First, SMEs lack resources to
invest in full-blown solutions and integrate them in their local IT
landscape. Subsequently, SMEs usually employ a set of non-standardized,
custom-tailored ERP and communication systems to engage in B2B and B2C
relations. Second, SMEs need to remain flexible and responsive quickly
to changing market needs. Most interoperability solutions today,
however, are rigidly configured and require considerable adaptation
efforts to keep up-to-date with business requirements.
In an environment of loosely-coupled, dynamically adapting SMEs,
business collaboration support tools need to remain light-weight,
flexible, and automatically adapt to certain degree to changing context.
This special issue focuses on latest research in models, architectures,
protocols, and algorithms that support SMEs in inter-organizational
collaboration and the corresponding enterprise integration. This call
highlights three main research areas: i) exploitation and integration of
unstructured and semi-structured communication means such
web-interfaces, email, or social media such as twitter or facebook, ii)
automated semantic analysis of business artifacts, and iii)
people-driven flexible workflow support mechanisms. Particular focus is
on research that promises to lower the entry bar for SMEs to employ
business collaboration and assistance solutions. This explicitly
includes mechanisms, algorithms, and protocols for self-organizing,
self-configuring, self-learning, and self-adjusting behavior.
Topics
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- Markup of Communication Data
- Access to and integration of unstructured communication channels
- Data Analysis of unstructured/semi-structured business artifacts
- Message Correlation mechanisms across multiple communication channels
- Business document evolution
- Business document negotiation
- Flexible workflow modeling
- Ad-hoc Process Tracking Support
- Process Recommendation support
- Cross-SME workflow alignment
- Legacy system integration
Submission
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Only original articles which have not been previously published or
currently submitted for journal publication are considered for review.
Extended versions of previous workshop or conference papers might be
submitted under the condition that the submission contains substantial
new material (this should be indicated at the time of submission).
Articles should be limited to 17 pages, and submitted as pdf via
EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcse2010
Layout guidelines are available at:
http://www.cai.sk/CAIinstr.htm
Guest Editor Details
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Prof. Schahram Dustdar
Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstr 8/184-1, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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Dr. Dirk Werth
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Dr. Christoph Dorn (contact for inquiry and correspondence)
Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstr 8/184-1, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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