CIAO! 2009

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Cooperation & Interoperability - Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2009) http://www.ciao.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=55

08 - 09 June 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

To be held in conjunction with the CAiSE 2009 conference http://caise09.thenetworkinstitute.eu/

Proceedings published in        Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)

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Motivation -- Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. Agility thus has become the new guiding principle for enterprises. This requires flexible organizational structures and business processes, as well as flexible supporting information systems and a flexible ICT-infrastructure. In addition, an enterprise needs to be able to easily expand or shrink, be it through cooperation with other enterprises, through mergers or acquisitions, or through insourcing or outsourcing of services. In order to meet these economical requirements, enterprises rely increasingly on the benefits of modern information and communication technology (ICT). However, the appropriate knowledge to deploy this technology as needed, and in an effective and efficient way, is largely lacking, particularly knowledge regarding the cooperation in and between enterprises and knowledge regarding the interoperability of their information systems.

Focus and Goal -- The CIAO! workshop is a leading workshop in the emerging field of Enterprise Engineering, which is based on the notions of Enterprise Ontology and Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Ontology is conceptually defined as (the understanding of) the essence of an enterprise. Operationally, it is its highest-level constructional model, completely independent on the way in which it is implemented. Enterprise Architecture is conceptually defined as the normative restriction of design freedom. Operationally, it is the set of design principles that are applicable to the (re)design of the enterprise's business processes, organization, information systems, etc. The goal of the workshop is to gather academics and practitioners in order to share innovative research issues and practical experiences, and to facilitate profound discussions about these issues, in particular about the application of the notions of architecture and ontology in dealing with inter- and intra-organizational business processes and the interoperability of supporting information systems.

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:


 * Modeling (cross-enterprise) business processes
 * Reference models for (cross-enterprise) business processes
 * Cooperation theories (e.g., the language-action-perspective)
 * Domain reference ontologies
 * Enterprise ontologies
 * Enterprise architectures
 * Business rules
 * Information system ontologies
 * Information system architectures
 * Component-based system development
 * Ontology-based web services
 * Interoperability testing and verification
 * Service Oriented Architecture

Organization of the Workshop

The CIAO! 2009 workshop is the 5th workshop of a series of successful workshops. (CIAO!'08, MIOS-CIAO'06, MIOS-INTEROP'05, MIOS'04) held at the CAiSE and OTM Federated conferences so far.

We are looking for articles on current or recently finished research projects as well as articles from practitioners. Based on our inspiring experience of the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 workshops, the CIAO! 2009 workshop is planned again to be a real workshop, providing ample time for discussions and group works, during two days. Consequently, the paper presentations will be short, covering only the highlights. In addition, the focus of discussion will be on CIAO: the problems areas Cooperation and Interoperability, and the application of Architecture and Ontology in dealing with them.

Submission Conditions - Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding 15 pages will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at Springer LNBIP Web page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0).

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.

Important Dates --- Abstract Submission:           February 15, 2009 Paper Submission:              February 22, 2009 Notification of Acceptance:    March    14, 2009 Camera Ready Paper Due:        April    21, 2009 CIAO! 2009 Workshop:           June  08-09, 2009 CAiSE 2009 Conference:         June  08-12, 2009

Program Chairs -- Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl) Chair of Information Systems Design Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Jan L.G. Dietz (j.l.g.dietz@tudelft.nl) Chair of Information Systems Design Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Program Committee - Wil van der Aalst   Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Joseph Barjis       Delft University of Technology Bernhard Bauer      University of Augsburg, Germany Emmanuel delaHostria Rockwell Automation, USA Johann Eder         University of Klagenfurt, Austria Joaquim Filipe      School of Technology of Set?bal, Portugal Rony G. Flatscher   Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Jan Hoogervorst     Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands Christian Huemer    Vienna University of Technology, Austria Peter Loos          University of Saarland, Germany Graham Mcleod       University of Kaapstad, South Africa Aldo de Moor        CommunitySense, The Netherlands Hans Mulder         University of Antwerp, Belgium Moira Norrie        ETH Z?rich, Switzerland Erik Proper         Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Gil Regev           ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Itecor, Switzerland Pnina Soffer        MIS department, Haifa University, Israel Pedro Sousa         University of Lisbon, Portugal Jos? Tribolet       INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal Jan Verelst         University of Antwerp, Belgium Robert Winter       University of St. Gallen, Switzerland This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP