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International Workshop on
Cooperation & Interoperability - Architecture & Ontology
(CIAO! 2008)
http://www.ciao.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=35
16 -17 June 2008
Montpellier, France
To be held in conjunction with the
CAiSE 2008 conference
http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/index.php
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Motivation
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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 requirements, enterprises rely increasingly on
the benefits of modern information and communication technology
(ICT). However, the appropriate knowledge to deploy this technology
in an effective and efficient way, is largely lacking, in particular
knowledge regarding the cooperation in and between enterprises and
knowledge regarding the interoperability of their information
systems.
Focus and Goal
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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 cooperation
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
* Inter- and intra-enterprise information systems
Organization of the Workshop
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The CIAO! 2008 workshop is the 4th workshop of a series of successful
workshops (MIOS-CIAO'06, MIOS-INTEROP'05, MIOS'04) held at the 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 last workshops, the CIAO! 2008 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
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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 LNCS format and should not exceed 12
pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices.
Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format or exceeding 12 pages
will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS
format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated
at the end of the abstract.
Important Dates
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Abstract Submission: February 15, 2008
Paper Submission: February 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: March 21, 2008
Camera Ready Paper Due: April 10, 2008
CIAO! 2008 Workshop: June 16-17, 2008
CAiSE 2008 Conference: June 16-20, 2008
Program Chairs
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Jan L.G. Dietz (j.l.g.dietz@tudelft.nl)
Chair of Information Systems Design
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl)
Chair of Information Systems Design
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Program Committee (to be completed)
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Wil van der Aalst Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
Bernhard Bauer University of Augsburg, Germany
Emmanuel delaHostria Rockwell Automation, USA
Johann Eder University of Vienna, Austria
Joaquim Filipe School of Technology of Setúbal, Portugal
Rony G. Flatscher Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration, Austria
Kees van Hee Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Jan Hoogervorst Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands
Christian Huemer Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Zahir Irani Brunel University, UK
Peter Loos University of Saarland, Germany
Arturo Molina CSIM-ITESM, Mexico
Aldo de Moor CommunitySense,The Netherlands
Moira Norrie ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Maria Orlowska Polish-Japanese Institute of Information
Technology, Poland
Erik Proper Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Gil Regev École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland
Pnina Soffer MIS department, Haifa University, Israel
José Tribolet INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Johannes Maria Zaha University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
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Dr. Antonia Albani
Assistant Professor
Software Technology Phone +31 15 27-85953
Delft University of Technology Fax +31 15 27-86632
Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft Email a.albani@tudelft.nl
The Netherlands
Web www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~albani
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