ESBE 2008

Topics of Interest

ESBE�??08 welcomes research submissions on all topics related to business models for services and their enablers, including but not limited to those listed below.

* Principles, theories, and challenges of business models for services ecosystems * Architectures, implementations, and deployment issues of business models for services ecosystems * Business models Requirements Specification * Formal methods for business concepts applied to services * Business models aware service selection and discovery * Business models aware service composition * Service Level Agreements, Policies, Contracts and their relation to business models * Negotiation and Contracting * Contract Monitoring and Enforcement * Compliance to Business Policies * Risk Management in service ecosystems * Copyrights, Moral rights, Trademarks, Patents, and Services * Evolution of services and its impact on business models * Innovative strategies for making and managing service-based organizations * Pricing models for services and Market structures * Business concepts in Semantics and Ontologies representation * Free and Open Source Software Business Models in service ecosystems * Analyzing business models for service and data mashups * Software-as-a-service models and Services-as-software models * Sociological, legal, and technological implications of services * Real world case studies

We also welcome a stream for short papers for work-in-progress and/or position statements (particularly, from industry).

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.

Important Dates

Paper submission: October 6, 2008

Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2008

Workshop Date: December 1, 2008 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP