Call for Papers

EC-Web 2011 is organized in the following tracks. The bullet list of each track is not exhaustive, but should demonstrate typical topics of interest. e-Business Architectures: E-business architectures leverage Web Technologies to implement mission-critical e-business systems. Still there is a need for design principles, methods, and technologies for describing the structure of e-Business systems, its composition of subsystems, and their relationship with the external environment.

• Enterprise Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
  • Business Collaboration Architecture Design, Modeling, Analysis, Development
  • Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
  • Enterprise Architecture Design Principles
  • Architecture Quality Measurements
  • Legacy System Integration
  • Middleware Integration

Semantic e-business: Managing knowledge for the coordination of e-business processes through the systematic application of Semantic Web technologies is the focus of semantic e-business. It builds up on Semantic Web technologies, knowledge management and e-business processes. Challenges address the conceptualization how e-business related knowledge is captured, represented, shared, and processed by humans and intelligent software.

• Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing business data
  • Ontological engineering of business applications
  • Semantic reasoning about business data
  • Information extraction for business applications
  • Search, query, analysis, and integration of business data

Business Services and Process Manaagement: Business services focus on the alignment of business and IT allowing smoother business operations and business processes. This also allows for more effective business process management approaches concerning the design, modeling, execution, monitoring and optimization of business process life cycles.

• Business/IT Alignment
  • Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
  • Service Identification, Modeling, and Granularity
  • Service Revenue Models
  • Service Engineering/Development Methods
  • Service-oriented Business Modeling
  • Software as a Service, Service as a Software
  • Business process modeling and analysis
  • SOA for business processes
  • Service-enabled workflow management systems

Cloud Transition Management: The projected benefits of the cloud computing paradigm are very compelling: leveraging economies of scale, automated ad-hoc service deployment, low capital expenses, variable pricing schemes, to name only a few. However, their actual realization and current adoption rates are far from being well-achieved. Enabling corporations to implement efficient new business models utilizing ecosystems of services delivered over the cloud poses a range of interesting management challenges.

• Economics of Cloud services
  • Markets and marketplaces for cloud services
  • Quality of cloud services
  • Service pricing and contracting models
  • Monitoring and performance prediction of cloud infrastructures
  • KPIs and Cloud Governance
  • Migration and evolution of enterprise applications in clouds
  • IT Service Management Processes in Cloud Infrastructures
  • Virtualization and provisioning strategies
  • Capacity planning and automated resource allocation

Recommender & Business Intelligence: Recommender and business intelligence systems supporting both the customer side and the providers side in making better business decision is still an challenging issue.

• Process and Data Mining
  • Business Activity Monitoring
  • Measuring Enterprise Performance
  • Enterprise Reporting Strategies
  • Business Intelligence Platforms and Infrastructure
  • Recommendation algorithms
  • Context-aware recommender systems
  • Evaluation of recommender systems
  • User Issues in Recommender Systems

Security and Trust: Security and trust are key enablers for building confidence in e-business transactions. In order to be effective, dependability and security must be part of the system design, starting at the lowest level. But it should also ensure trust in the applications for the end-user.

• Infrastructure for Secure Economic Transactions
  • Payment and authentication protocols
  • Unified Threat Management
  • Risk analysis and security policies
  • Security protection for business applications
  • Spyware and Phising Protection Profiles and data protection mechanisms
  • Reputation and trust systems
  • E-Negotiation and Contracts

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

• Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Thomas Setzer, Technische Universität München, Germany

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011
  • Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2011
  • Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due: June 10, 2011
  • Conference program: August 29 – September 2, 2011

PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum.

Manuscripts will be limited to 12 (Springer LNBIP) pages. Please follow the format at: http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-450209-0

Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF) is required. The on-line submission system will be available early 2011 @ http://www.dexa.org

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers are evaluated according to originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of explosion.

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of Springer series on “Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing” (LNBIP).

At least one author is required to register and present the paper at the conference.

BEST PAPER AWARD The best research paper will receive a best paper award.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: tbd