[ontolog-forum] 2nd CfP: DEECS Workshop at CEC 2009 (Deadline: March 16/

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2nd 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
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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
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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
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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
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* 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
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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, Yamagata University, 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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