IBIS: Call for Journal Articles

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                   CALL FOR ARTICLES
       International Journal of Interoperability in 
           Business Information Systems (IBIS)
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             http://www.ibis-journal.net
               info@ibis-journal.net
				
    >>> Deadline for article submissions: 10.12.2005 <<<


The international Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS) prepares its first issue. 
Authors are encouraged to submit articles for inclusion in the upcoming issue. IBIS is an academically peer 
reviewed journal with ISSN about Interoperability in Business Information systems. Detailed information can 
be found at the journal website (http://www.ibis-journal.net)


We are interested in both theoretical and practical research. We are also interested in case studies and 
results of recently finished research projects. Although our focus is on research results, we also accept a 
small amount of practical articles. Contributions should be original and unpublished and need to have a high 
quality.

Topics of the journal include, but are not limited to:
    * Integration of business information systems
    * Enterprise modeling for Interoperability
    * Interoperability architectures and frameworks
    * Interoperability of business standards
    * Intelligent mediators
    * Coupling of information systems
    * Interoperability of classification systems
    * (Semi-)Automatic transformation of standards
    * Interoperability of (meta) models
    * Semantic integration concepts
    * Interoperability between domain specific standards
    * Semantic analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
    * Interoperability of catalog based information systems
    * Cooperation in heterogeneous information systems
    * Ontology matching, merging and aligning
    * Semantic combination of heterogeneous standards
    * Ontology- and model management
    * Interoperability of sector specific systems



Authors are encouraged to submit high quality articles online. 
Submissions may be performed in the following categories:
    * Full article: up to 20.000 characters
    * Short article: 3.000-5.000 characters
    * Reviews and comments: 1.000 - 3.000 characters
Please look at the submission guidelines at http://www.ibis-journal.net for  more information.


Timeline:
		* Submission deadline: 10.12.2005
		* Author notification: 20.01.2006
		* Camera ready submission: 15.02.2006
		* Publication of journal issue: 15.03.2006

		
For questions concerning the submissions, please feel free to contact the journal management at:
				http://www.ibis-journal.net
				info@ibis-journal.net

Reviewers:
Submitted articles of this journal are reviewed by the members of the IBIS review board. As of today, the 
review board contains the following persons in alphabetical order:
    * Dipl.-Inform. Sven Abels, University of Oldenburg, Germany
    * Prof. Dr. Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
    * Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
    * Dr. Arne-J. Berre, SINTEF, Distributed Information Systems, Norway
    * Prof. Dr. Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes, Brittany, France
    * Prof. Dr. Flavio Bonfatti, University of Modena, Italy
    * Prof. Dr. Frank-Dieter Dorloff, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    * Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    * Prof. Dr. Jan Goossenaerts, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
    * Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
    * Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Oldenburg, Germany
    * Dr. Martin Hepp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Germany
    * Prof. Dr. Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands
    * Prof. Dr. Paul Johannesson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    * Prof. Dr. Michele Missikoff, IASI, National research Council (CNR), Italy
    * Dipl.-Inform. Mathias Uslar, OFFIS e.V., Germany
    * Dr. Martin Zelm, CIMOSA Association e.V., Germany