ESBE 2009

Overview -

International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE'09) is the second edition of referred workshop that encourages research on all topics related to business models for services and their enablers, co-located with Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2009) in Athens, Greece.

Online services impact the way organizations build, deploy, and manage their information assets and market capitalization while creating business ecosystems. In this scenario, it is critical that the underlying business models help to meet organizations’ expectations and needs. This workshop will look at the enablers for Service Oriented Systems to evolve, grow, and interact with other services to support complex business ecosystems. We encourage contributions from different perspectives including sociological, economical, psychological, legal, and technical.

Topics of Interest ---

ESBE’09 welcomes research submissions (work-in-progress and/or position statements) in the form of short papers or extended abstracts on all topics related to business models for services and their enablers, including but not limited to those listed below.

Service based information systems Principles, theories, and challenges of business models for services ecosystems Service innovation Human roles in services and human based services User interactions with service ecosystems Service development communities Open source service ecosystem Knowledge management in service ecosystems Service economics Pricing models for services and market dynamics Service oriented business intelligence and analysis Service valuation Innovative strategies for making and managing service-based organizations Strategic, tactical, and operational management of service ecosystem Risk and compliance management in service ecosystems Change management in service ecosystems Trust, security, and privacy aspects of service ecosystem Interdisciplinary studies of service ecosystem Sociological, economical, psychological, legal, and technological implications of services Ethical and cultural issues in service ecosystems Service level agreements/ Policies/ Contracts and negotiation Educational methods for teaching service ecosystem Real world case studies

The workshop also features a panel discussion session, moderated by the co-chairs, to discuss open challenges and trends directly related to the workshop's theme.

Submission --

You are requested to submit short papers or extended abstract by one of the options of submission deadlines.

Option I

Short papers / Extended Abstract Submission: July 28, 2009

Notification of	Acceptance/Rejection: July 29, 2009

Option II

Short papers / Extended Abstract Submission: August 10, 2009

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2009

Submissions can follow any style with the following requirements: (1) the lenght of papers should be between 2 to 4 pages; (2) use Times Font Family with 12 points size; (3) Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins should be 2 cm. They must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal.

Papers should be submitted in electronic form (the only accepted format is PDF) using Easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esbe09.

We expect the full papers to be submitted by the authors during the workshop.

All the accepted papers will undergo a double blind rigorous review process and selected papers will be qualified for publication in a prestigious journal (as a special issue from ESBE'09).

Organizing Committee

Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Trento, Italy G.R. Gangadharan, Novay, Enschede, The Netherlands Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia, Brisbane, Australia Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact the workshop chairs at esbe-chairs@disi.unitn.it	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP