Call for Paper Conference

"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (approval pending) and IEEE Communications Society (approval pending)
Supported by OMG and The Open Group

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil
http://edocconference.org

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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 intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2010 will be the fourteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government.

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 some 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.

IEEE EDOC 2010 welcomes 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.

IEEE EDOC 2010 will be realized in Vitória, ES, Brazil. Vitória is one of the three island capitals of Brazilian states, and is located in the Southeastern region, the most developed of Brazil. The city lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the Serra do Mar mountain range and is strategically located close to the big urban centres of the country and is, on average, an hour by plane from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.


TOPICS

The IEEE 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 Enterprise Architecture
- Model based approaches
- Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven software development
- Recent UML based approaches
- Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
- Reference architecture based approaches
- Standards for enterprise application architecture and enterprise architecture
- Enterprise modeling
- 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 business processes
- 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
- Information integration and interoperability
- Business object model methodologies and approaches
- Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
- Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing

Networked Enterprise Solutions
- Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture
- Virtual organisations, including multiagent system support
- Digital ecosystems
- Trust management

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
- 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
- Social information and innovation networks

Enterprise Computing Infrastructures
- Autonomic computing and self-managing platforms
- Grid computing approaches
- Mobile enterprise services
- Identity management and distributed access control


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Two types of paper submissions will be accepted a) scientific research papers, and b) 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, contribute important feedback about the state of practice and how current research is applied, and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity.

All papers should be limited to 10 pages in length. All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the latest template as there have been updates recently). Submissions must be in English.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system (hosted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2010). 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 and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.


POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

The authors of a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue (details will be announced later). In previous years, selected papers from EDOC have been published in Springer's Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), and International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS). Additionally, selected papers will be considered for publication of an extended version in a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) under the title "Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture".


WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

We are inviting proposals for workshops on innovative research and industry-related topics. Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics in enterprise computing in a small and interactive atmosphere. 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). Further information about workshop proposal submissions can be found in the call for workshops at http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/callforworkshops


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper abstract submission: 10 March 2010
Full paper submission due: 17 March 2010
Paper acceptance notification: 28 May 2010
Camera-ready papers due: 16 June 2010

Workshop proposals due: 10 December 2009
Workshop acceptance notification: 17 December 2009


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
João Paulo A. Almeida (Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil)

Program Chairs:
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Workshops Chair:
Maria-Eugenia Iacob (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Finance Chair:
Roberta Lima Gomes (Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil)

Publicity Chairs:
José Raúl Romero (University of Cordoba, Spain)
Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)

The IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines is
a forum to present and discuss new research on the use of
reconfigurable computing, spatial computing, and application-specific
architectures that exploit the unique features of FPGAs and other
reconfigurable hardware. Of particular interest are papers in these
areas that emphasize high-performance and/or low-energy
computation. This conference focuses on a wide variety of topics
related to custom computing, and seeks submissions from the following
main areas:

Architectures

* Architectures for high-performance and/or low-power configurable
computing
* New spatial architectures with immense parallelism but different
basic components than FPGAs
* System-level architectures for reconfigurable computing in either
real-time or non-real-time systems
* Hybrid architectures that integrate a mix of coarse, fine,
special-purpose, and general-purpose hardware
* Implications and effects of nanotechnology on reconfigurable
computing (and vice versa)

Languages and Compilers

* New languages and development environments to describe spatial or
hybrid applications
* Tools to make run-time reconfiguration more accessible to
application designers
* Compilation and CAD techniques for reconfigurable computing systems
and other spatial computers Run-Time Systems and Run-Time
Reconfiguration
* Operating system techniques to manage run-time reconfiguration of
resources in reconfigurable computing or spatial computing systems
* Run-time CAD algorithms to support the above techniques or improve
fault tolerance/avoidance
* Use of reconfigurability to build evolvable or adaptable computing
systems
* Novel uses of run-time reconfiguration in application-specific
systems

Applications

* Novel applications that use reconfigurability to customize hardware
for scientific computation, mobile communications, medical image
processing, data and communication security, network infrastructure
and other embedded systems
* Comparison of application implementations on different spatial
hardware, such as GPGPUs, multi-core processors, and FPGAs.

Open-Source Tools and Applications

This year we particularly encourage papers introducing CAD tools,
compilers, benchmark libraries, and/or benchmark circuits that are
open source and publicly available. To be considered under this
heading, submissions must include a web link to the source accessible
by the reviewers, and make the source publicly-available upon
acceptance. For these papers, evaluation will be based more on the
usefulness to the community than research novelty. Submissions

FCCM solicits both 8-page full paper and 4-page short paper
submissions. All submissions should be written in the English
language, and are due by January 12th, 2010 through the online
submission link that will be available on the FCCM website starting in
late December, 2009. Authors will be notified by February 25th. Papers
should use the formatting template linked at the FCCM website.

June 21 - 23, 2010,
Santa Barbara, California, USA
http://www.dcoss.org/


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: 11:59PM EST Feb 2, 2010
Notification: March 26, 2010
Camera Ready: April 7, 2010

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OVERVIEW:

Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due
to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems
allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments.
The focus of this conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale
networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, systematic design
techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing).

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate
current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Computation and programming models
- Energy models, minimization, awareness
- Distributed collaborative information processing
- Detection and tracking
- Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
- Abstractions for modular design
- Fault tolerance and security
- Languages, operating systems
- Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration
- Dynamic resource management
- Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level)
- Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives
- Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation
- Design automation and application synthesis techniques
- closed-loop control for sensing and actuation
- Case studies: lessons from real world deployments
- Network coding and compression
- Detailed submission guidelines coming soon.

"The Enterprise Computing Conference"
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (approval pending) and IEEE Communications Society (approval pending)
Supported by OMG and The Open Group

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil
http://edocconference.org

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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 intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems. EDOC 2010 will be the fourteenth event in the series of conferences. Since 1997, EDOC has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of academia, industry and government.

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 some 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.

IEEE EDOC 2010 welcomes 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.

IEEE EDOC 2010 will be realized in Vitória, ES, Brazil. Vitória is one of the three island capitals of Brazilian states, and is located in the Southeastern region, the most developed of Brazil. The city lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the Serra do Mar mountain range and is strategically located close to the big urban centres of the country and is, on average, an hour by plane from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.


TOPICS

The IEEE 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 Enterprise Architecture
- Model based approaches
- Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven software development
- Recent UML based approaches
- Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
- Reference architecture based approaches
- Standards for enterprise application architecture and enterprise architecture
- Enterprise modeling
- 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 business processes
- 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
- Information integration and interoperability
- Business object model methodologies and approaches
- Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
- Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing

Networked Enterprise Solutions
- Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture
- Virtual organisations, including multiagent system support
- Digital ecosystems
- Trust management

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
- 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
- Social information and innovation networks

Enterprise Computing Infrastructures
- Autonomic computing and self-managing platforms
- Grid computing approaches
- Mobile enterprise services
- Identity management and distributed access control


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Two types of paper submissions will be accepted a) scientific research papers, and b) 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, contribute important feedback about the state of practice and how current research is applied, and pose challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on their appropriateness, significance and clarity.

All papers should be limited to 10 pages in length. All submissions must comply with the IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings format guidelines (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) (please use the latest template as there have been updates recently). Submissions must be in English.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF format via the electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system (hosted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc2010). 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 and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.


POST CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

The authors of a set of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue (details will be announced later). In previous years, selected papers from EDOC have been published in Springer's Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), and International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS). Additionally, selected papers will be considered for publication of an extended version in a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) under the title "Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture".

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper abstract submission: 10 March 2010
Full paper submission due: 17 March 2010
Paper acceptance notification: 28 May 2010
Camera-ready papers due: 16 June 2010