About the Workshop
One of the trends in the
global market is the increasing collaboration among enterprises. Constant
changes in inter- and intra-organisational environment will persist in the
future. Organisations have to flexibly and continuously react to (imminent)
changes in markets and trading partners. Large companies but also SMEs have
to cope with internal changes from both a technical (e.g. new information,
communication, software and hardware technologies) and an organisational
point of view (e.g. merging, re-organisation, virtual organisations, etc.).
In this context, the competitiveness of an enterprise depends not only on
its internal performance to produce products and services but also on its
ability to seamlessly interoperate with other enterprises. External and
internal collaborative work needs more interoperable solutions.
This workshop aims at
identifying and discussing challenges and solutions with respect to
enterprise interoperability, both at the business and the technical level.
The workshop promotes the development of a scientific foundation for
specifying, analysing and validating interoperability solutions; an
architectural framework for addressing interoperability problems from
different viewpoints and at different levels of abstraction; a maturity model
to evaluate and rank interoperability solutions with respect to
distinguished quality criteria; and a working set of practical solutions
and tools that can be applied to interoperability problems to date.
Topics
The workshop invites original submissions from
both researchers and practitioners in the following (non-exhaustive) list
of topics:
·
ODP and
enterprise interoperability;
·
SOA and
enterprise interoperability;
·
interoperability
through service discovery and composition;
·
orchestration
of services;
·
mediation
between services;
·
MDA and
enterprise interoperability;
·
computation-independent
interoperability models;
·
platform-independent
interoperability models;
·
model-to-model
transformations;
·
other reference
models and architecture approaches;
·
enterprise architecture
and enterprise modelling;
·
middleware and
infrastructure approaches to facilitate and enhance interoperability;
·
business-IT
alignment for interoperability;
·
reference
ontology and mapping mechanisms;
·
self-organisation
and adaptation for interoperability;
·
semantic
annotations for information interoperability;
·
coordination
and negotiation in networks of businesses;
·
cross-organizational
business processes;
·
maturity models
and quality criteria for evaluating interoperability solutions;
·
modelling,
analysis and validation of interoperability;
·
non-functional
aspects of interoperability, such as privacy, QoS, and reputation;
·
interoperability
requirements, approaches and solutions in specific sectors
·
case studies
and experience reports on interoperability solutions.
Submission
Guidelines and Workshop Format
The workshop welcomes
submissions of full papers (8 to 12 pages long) and position papers (around
4 pages) in the IEEE Computer Society format. A package with formatting
instructions and a template for Word and style files for Latex is available
from http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~edoc06/formatting.zip.
All submissions will be formally peer reviewed by at least three reviewers.
Accepted papers will be published on-line in the IEEE Digital Library and
in print by the University
of Twente as part of
the CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series (ISSN 1381-3625). At least one author
of each accepted paper should participate in the workshop.
Submissions
should consist of two versions of the paper: one with author names
and contact details and an anonymized version. Both versions should
be be sent in PDF format by email to iwei@ics.kth.se.
Important
Dates
Paper submission due: 13 June 2008
Notification to authors: 21
July 2008
Camera ready due: 31
July 2008
Workshop: 18 September
2008
Organising
Committee
Johnson, Pontus (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Kutvonen, Lea (University of Helsinki, Finland)
van Sinderen, Marten (University of Twente, Netherlands)
International
Program Committee
Bernard, Scott, Carnegie Mellon University,
Syracuse University, USA
Chen, David,
Université Bordeaux 1, France
Davidsson, Paul, Blekinge
Institute of Technology,
Sweden
Doumeingts, Guy,
INTEROP-VLab/GFI, France
Ducq, Yves,
Université Bordeaux 1, France
Fischer, Thomas, University of Stuttgart and the Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
Goncalves, Ricardo, New University of Lisbon, UNINOVA, Portugal
Kalinichenko, Leonid, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian
Federation
Kassel, Stephan, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany
Kosanke, Kurt, CIMOSA
Association, Germany
Lankhorst, Marc, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Mertins, Kai, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Poler, Raul, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Quartel, Dick, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Rehm, Sven-Volker, University of Stuttgart and the Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
Schelp, Joachim, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Schobbens, Pierre-Yves, University of Namur, Belgium
Schönherr,
Marten,Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Strohmaier, Markus, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Vallespir, Bruno,
Université Bordeaux 1, France
Wegmann, Alain, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de
Lausanne, Switzerland
Xu, Xiaofei, Harbin
Institute of Technology,
China
Program
All papers are copyright of IEEE.
Welcome and opening
Introduction of program
9:30 - 10:00 Paper session 1a
- Ontologies and the semantic web
Johan Ullberg, Royal Institute of
Technology: A framework for
interoperability analysis on the semantic web using architecture models
Presentation
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Paper
session 1b - Ontologies and the semantic web
Nabila Zouggar, Univ. de
Bordeaux: Semantic enrichment of
enterprise models by ontologies-based semantic annotations
Presentation
11:00 - 12:30 Paper session 2 - Inter-organizational interoperability
Eddy Truyen, K.U.Leuven: A reference model for
cross-organisational coordination architectures
Presentation
Stephan Kassel, University of
Applied Sciences Zwickau: Design of
services as interoperable systems - an e-commerce case study
Presentation
Roberto Santana Tapia,
University of Twente: Towards a
business-IT aligned maturity model for collaborative networked
organizations
Presentation
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:30 Paper session 3 - Service-orientation
Brian Elvesaeter, SINTEF: Towards enterprise interoperability
service utilities
Presentation
Rodrigo Mantovaneli, University
of Twente: Enterprise
interoperability with SOA: a survey of service composition approaches
Presentation
Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut: Model-driven development of a mediation
service
Presentation
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion
session - Grand challenges of enterprise interoperability
General discussion of presented work
Classification of research challenges
17:00 - 17:30 Closing
Future of IWEI
Closing
