[agents] EDOC 2014 Call for Papers

[Selway, Matt Ryan - selmr001]

EDOC 2014 Call for Papers
The 18th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2014)
"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
Main Theme: Utilizing Big Data for Enterprise of the Future
Ulm, Germany
September 1-5, 2014
http://www.edoc2014.org/

Abstract submission (optional): March 15, 2014
Full paper submission due: March 22, 2014
Workshop paper submissions: April 8, 2014

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About the Conference

IEEE EDOC 2014 is the eighteenth conference in a series that provides the
key forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of enterprise
computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of models,
methodologies, and engineering technologies contributing to intra- and
inter-enterprise application systems. Since 1997, EDOC has brought
together leading computer scientists, IT decision makers, enterprise
architects, solution designers, and practitioners to discuss enterprise
computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of
academia, industry, and government. The IEEE EDOC conference series
emphasizes a holistic view on enterprise applications engineering and
management, fostering integrated approaches that address and relate
business processes, people and technology.

EDOC'14 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as experience
papers on enterprise computing from industry. The main theme of EDOC'14 is
"Utilizing Big Data for Enterprise of the Future" and addresses the
four V's of Big Data in the context of enterprise computing
[http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/infographic/four-vs-big-data]:

1. new ways to utilize and manage the large *volume* of data in
   enterprises,
2. efficient techniques for handling the *velocity* of data where large
   amount of data are captured in a short time frame,
3. bringing together a large *variety* of different forms of data within
   and across enterprises, and
4. dealing with *veracity* or uncertainty of data leading to quality and
   trust in collected data.

Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address current topics and
issues in this domain.


Topics

The IEEE EDOC conference seeks high-quality contributions addressing the
domains, life-cycle issues, and realization technologies involved in
building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems.
Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:

- Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Application Architecture
  * Enterprise architecture frameworks
  * Enterprise architecture analysis, assessment and prediction
  * Cloud computing and the evolution of enterprise architectures
  * Enterprise ontologies

- Model-based Approaches
  * Model-driven architectures and model-driven software development
  * Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
  * Approaches based on reference architectures
  * Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues

- Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and Enterprise Service Architectures (ESA)
  * Service engineering and evolution of related specifications
  * Semantics-based service engineering
  * Service composition, orchestration and choreography
  * Enterprise service bus
  * Complex event processing and event-driven architectures

- Governance in Service-oriented Architectures
  * Service policies, contract definition and enforcement
  * Security/privacy policy definition and description languages
  * Security/privacy policy interoperability

- Business process management (BPM)
  * Business process modeling, verification, configuration and
    implementation
  * Process-aware information systems (PAIS), Human-centric PAIS, Social BPM
  * Managing business process variability, adaptation and evolution in PAIS
  * Process mining and its application in business analytics
  * Distributed and cross-organizational business processes
  * Data-intensive processes
  * Cloud impact on BPM, business processes in the cloud
  * Emerging BPM paradigms (e.g., adaptive case management, data-driven
    processes)

-  Business analytics
  * Modeling and predictive analytics for enterprise computing
  * Data-driven enterprise strategy
  * Collaboration enterprise analytic platforms
  * Business process intelligence (e.g., process performance management)
  * Continuous, online analytics for big data in the enterprise

- Business rules
  * Business rule languages and engines
  * Relation between business rules and business processes
  * Business rules and service computing
  * Business rules and compliance management, business process compliance

- Information integration and interoperability
  * Business object modeling methodologies and approaches
  * Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
  * Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing
  * Flexible information models and systems (e.g., object-driven processes)
  * Data quality and trustworthiness

- Networked Enterprise Solutions
  * Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture
  * Virtual organizations, including multi-agent system support
  * Cross-enterprise collaboration in a world of cloud, social and big data
  * Digital ecosystems
  * Trust management

- Enterprise applications deployment and governance
  * Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement
  * Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS)
  * Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems
  * Information assurance
  * Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing

- Emerging trends in distributed enterprise applications
  * Social information and innovation networks, social media impact on the
    enterprise
  * People-centric collaboration systems, people-centric services
  * Private and public cloud computing Infrastructures
  * Idea management and crowdsourcing
  * Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 and beyond
  * Mobile enterprise services
  * 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)


Submission Guidelines

Two types of paper submissions are solicited:

1. scientific research papers, and
2. industry experience reports or case studies.

*Scientific research papers* should describe original results not been
accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be
evaluated based on their scientific and technical contribution,
originality, and relevance. In turn, *industry experience reports*
should provide new insights gained in case studies or when applying
enterprise computing technology in practice; *industry experience
reports* shall further provide important feedback about the state of
practice and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be
evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance, and clarity.

Submissions should be full papers with 8-10 pages. All submissions must
be made in PDF format and comply with the
[IEEE Computer Society Conference Proceedings Format Guidelines]
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).
They should be made via the electronic submission system of the EDOC
Conference Management system hosted on EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2014

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 be made accessible through IEEE Xplore
and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library.


Post Conference Publication

The authors of a collection of selected papers will be invited to
prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for
publication in a special journal issue. The journal will be announced in
due course.


Important Dates:

* Abstract submission (optional): March 15, 2014
* Full paper submission due: March 22, 2014
* Conference paper acceptance notifications: May 13, 2014

* Workshop paper submissions: April 8, 2014
* Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 27, 2014

* All camera-ready papers due: June 14, 2014