[agents] 1st International Workshop on the Latest Advances in Information Systems for the Enterprise 2.0

[Fahim Akhter]

1st International Workshop on the Latest Advances in Information Systems for the Enterprise 2.0 In conjunction with WEBIST 2014 - 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
http://www.webist.org/ISE.aspx?y=2014

Scope
Today’s enterprises are caught in the middle of a major financial storm that is putting at risk their profit, growth, and even survival. To respond to this storm, enterprises have launched different initiatives to improve their business processes and align their development strategies with market needs, for example.
Regular enterprise applications like Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management implement structured business processes in which the steps to perform are well defined. Basically there is little room for leadership and innovation during the completion of these processes without triggering a complex re-thinking process that usually takes time to implement and see its effects, which is sometimes late and inefficient due to business constant changes. Several decisions are to be made on the fly based on unstructured data that people receive from various sources. Some of these data are part of people's tacit knowledge.
This workshop focuses on online sources (with focus on social applications like social networks and blogs) that illustrate Web 2.0 widespread adoption. Social applications rely on users’ ability and willingness to interact, share, and recommend. However the richness and complexity of information in these applications pose challenges on how to capture and structure these information for future use while preserving user privacy and information sensitivity. Different studies encourage enterprises to allow their employees to embrace social applications in order to establish and foster contacts with their colleagues, customers, and suppliers.

Recommended Topics
This workshop aims at addressing the lack of techniques and guidelines that would enable enterprises to weave social relationships (e.g., collegiality, fairness, and supervision) into their operation. This should lead into business processes in the enterprise that reinforce the fact that employees establish and maintain social networks of contacts, rely on some privileged contacts when needed, and form with other peers strong and long lasting social collaborative groups. In today’s economies, an enterprise’s ability to sustain its growth and competitiveness depends on how well it socially manages its communications with various stakeholders for instance, customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners.

Topics of interest may include the following: (but not limited to):
Service computing for the enterprise 2.0
Standards for the enterprise 2.0
Methods for designing the enterprise 2.0
Semantic technologies the enterprise 2.0
Privacy and security in the enterprise 2.0
Context management the enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 engagement with customers
Case studies

Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgements section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates provided in the documents below, which are also the templates for the camera-ready submission. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a LNBIP Series book.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: January 21, 2014
Authors Notification: February 10, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: January 20, 2014


Publications
All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published on the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.

Workshop Chairs
Dr. Zakaria Maamar (primary point of contact)
Zayed University, Dubai, U.A.E
zakaria.maamar at zu.ac.ae

Dr. Ejub Kajan
State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
ejubkajan at gmail.com

Publicity Chair
Dr. Fahim Akhter
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
fakhter at ksu.edu.sa


Program Committee
To be announced later



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