[ontolog-forum] Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Data Engi

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Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop
on Data Engineering Issues 
in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2009)

In conjunction with the 11th IEEE Conference
on Commerce and Enterprise
Computing (CEC 2009)
July 20-23, 2009, Vienna, Austria

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Deecs2009

++ Deadline for submission: March 16/23,
2009 ++
++ Full papers, position papers, posters,
and demos invited ++
++ IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings
++
++ Papers will be included in the IEEE
Digital Library ++

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Workshop Theme
==============
As part of their e-business activities,
enterprises create, share,
recombine, and process an ever increasing
amount of data and documents
that range from simple transactional
data to complex business process
definitions. In many respective processes,
multiple spheres overlap,
e.g., (1) inter- with intra-organizational
data sources in collaborative
processes, (2) master data with transactional
data, (3) regular data
with behavioral aspects of processes,
or (4) facts with normative
assertions. Since business entities
are members of multiple value chains,
same as data sources are often used
in multiple contexts and processes,
there are often conflicting requirements
on the representation of such
data. At the same time, enterprise computing
infrastructures are
currently transforming into service-oriented
systems; this change has
severe consequences as well as offers
opportunities for the data
management processes.

All this in combination makes data engineering
in e-commerce and service-
oriented computing a very challenging
task, already at the level of a
single company but even more in value
chains. Also, respective modeling
choices may have long-lasting and far
reaching impact, and affect (1)
operational efficiency, (2) business
process agility, (3) the range of
analytical tasks for decision support,
and (4) strategic options.
Eventually, those choices determine
the current and future degree of
automation in content and process integration.

While e-business standards in general
help, standardization alone does not
solve the problem. This is because yielding
a consensual representation
takes time, consumes resources, and
constrains an entity’s ability to
capture individual details. Moreover,
the cost of implementing and
enforcing the standards is sometimes
prohibitive for small businesses.
Proprietary representations, on the
other hand, hamper interoperability,
and complicate B2B integration. In service-oriented
architectures (SOAs),
this complexity is further increased
by the behavioral dimension of
e-business interactions, e.g., services
choreography and orchestration.

This workshop aims at providing a venue
for discussion and the exchange
of ideas on data and knowledge engineering
issues in the dynamic
environment of e-business, enterprise
computing, and business services
and transformation. The relation to
CEC 2009 is that it addresses a core
problem in enterprise computing. In
the format of an interactive workshop,
it focuses the intersection of three
main areas: data engineering,
knowledge engineering, and business
process management.


Topics
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In particular, we are inviting full
and short papers, posters, and 
hands-on demonstrations on the following
topics:

- Business data integration
- Business data management
- Business decision support 
- Business intelligence
- Business modeling and analysis
- Business process integration
- Business process management
- Business process monitoring
- Business process intelligence
- Case studies and applications
- Corporate knowledge management
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Data-intensive decision support systems
- E-commerce content
- E-commerce standards
- Enterprise application integration
- E-procurement and e-sourcing
- Folksonomies and collaborative tagging
in business applications
- Logistics data engineering
- Ontologies and use of Semantic Web
technology
- Product data management
- Product lifecycle management
- Product specification standardization
- Semantic business process management
- Semantic Web Services
- Sensors and actuators
- Service-oriented architectures (SOAs)
- Service-level agreements and their
specification along and across value chains
- Supply chain management
- Ubiquitous / context-aware services
- Web services


Paper Submission and Publication
================================

We are inviting the submission of
- full papers (up to 8 pages),
- position papers (up to 5 pages),
- posters (2-page extended abstracts
or final posters), and
- hands-on demonstrations (2-page descriptions
of the demo)
describing original research on the
listed or related topics.

Please follow the IEEE Computer Society
Press Proceedings Author
Guidelines to prepare your papers using
the 8.5'' x 11'', two-column
format.

Submissions must be in the form of PDF
documents using our electronic
submission system, which is available
at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deecs2009

At least one author is required to attend
the workshop and present the 
work. Attendance of the workshop requires
registration to the main 
CEC conference.

Full papers will be published in the
regular conference proceedings by 
the IEEE Computer Society Press and
will be included in the IEEE Digital 
Library.


Review Process
==============
Each paper will typically be reviewed
by three members of the Program 
Committee. Reviewers will score submissions
according to their 
contribution, originality/novelty, technical
depth/merit, and quality of 
presentation. For short position papers,
clarity of exposition and the 
degree of innovation will be sufficient,
while for full papers, a clear 
technical contribution is expected.


Important Dates
===============

March 16, 2009: Abstracts due
March 23, 2009: Submissions due
April 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2009:   Camera-ready versions
due
July 20, 2009:  Workshop


Organizing Committee
====================

* General Chairs

Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University,
Korea
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Center,
USA

* Program Chairs
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim,
Germany
Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich,
Germany

* Proceedings and Web Chair
Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women's University,
Korea


Program Committee
=================
(Invitations ongoing)

Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center,
USA
Pieter de Leenheer, Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Belgium
Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University
of Bari, Italy
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical
University, Turkey
Andreas, Harth, DERI Galway, Ireland
Steffen Lamparter, University of Karlsruhe,
Germany
André Ludwig, University of Leipzig,
Germany
Tokuro Matsuo, Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan
Jan Mendling, Humboldt University of
Berlin, Germany
Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University,
United Kingdom
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of
Crete, Greece
Bernhard Schandl, University of Vienna,
Austria
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of
Mannheim, Germany
Chun Hua Tian, IBM China Research Laboratory,
China


Contact
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Joerg Leukel
Information Systems 2
University of Hohenheim
Schwerzstrasse 35
70593 Stuttgart, Germany

Phone: +43 711 459-23968
E-Mail: joerg.leukel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

URI: http://www.joerg-leukel.net  
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