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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 =================================================================== Motivation ---------- 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 -------------- 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 ---------------------------- 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 --------------------- 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 --------------- 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 -------------- 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) ----------------------------------- 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 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 ************************************************************************ 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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