Call For Papers

www.interop-noe.org

2^nd International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking

(EI2N’2006)

March 21^st, 2006, Bordeaux, France

Scope

It is a fact that enterprises need to collaborate if they want to survive in the current extreme dynamic and heterogeneous business world they are involved in. Enterprise integration, interoperability and networking have been disciplines that have studied how to do companies to collaborate and communicate in the most effective way. Such disciplines are well-established disciplines nowadays, with the existence of international conferences, initiatives, groups, task forces and European projects and where difference branches of knowledge have being facing the problem from different point of views with different objectives (e.g. technological or managerial point of views).

Enterprise integration consists in breaking down organizational barriers to improve synergy within the enterprise so that business goals are achieved in a more productive and efficient way. Enterprise modelling, software architectures and ontologies are the pillars supporting the achievement of enterprise integration and interoperability.

The IFAC Technical Committee 5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking” (http://icat2.snu.ac.kr/ifac-tc/index.html?tc_id=503) is organising an experts workshop in the frame of the I-ESA2006 International Conference (www.i-esa.org). The EI2N workshop aims to identify key issues on applications interoperability for enterprise integration to influence future research works.

Topics

Enterprise Integration Modelling, Approaches and Methodologies
Good Enterprise Interoperability Design Principles
Architecture of Enterprise Integration Information Systems
Ontologies for Enterprise Application Integration
Case Studies of Enterprise Integration Problems
Interoperability in the context of collaborative networked organisations
Enterprise reference models and their verification, validation and accreditation
Reference models for interoperability
Enterprise models repository
UEML

Information for Authors

Submissions must be no longer than 12 pages in length and should follow the Hermès Science Publication format (see http://www.hermes-science.com/word/eng-guidelines.doc for instructions). The final version for the proceedings shall be provided in a Microsoft Word file.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically to ei2n06@di.unito.it in PDF format (please note that “0” in ei2n06 is ZERO). The submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the IPC.

The workshop proceedings will be published, as a special volume, after the I-ESA’2006 conference (hard copies will be sent to the registered workshop participants). Papers will be included in the proceedings only if they are presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

For more information please visit www.ei2n06.di.unito.it or send a message to ei2n06@di.unito.it

As a mandatory prerequisite for publication, authors should take into account all the comments and improvements that the reviewers have stated and written down in the review reports. To assure the prerequisite, authors will be asked to provide the WS organisers with an additional file describing how the comments and improvement have been considered for the final version of the papers. The papers should anyway be in the Hermès Science Publication format.

Proceedings of the previous EI2N’2005 can be found HERE.

Important Deadlines

Papers submission deadline	January 15th, 2006
Acceptance notification	February 28^th, 2006
Final papers due (with answers to reviewers):	April 10^th, 2006

Workshop Format Organisation

The workshop will be organised with papers oral presentation followed by one or two rounds “group workshop café” on subjects related to the presented papers. At the end of the workshop day, a plenary panel and report will be done.

Workshop Programme

Workshop Presentations and Reports (zipped file)

WS Organisation Chair:

Berio, Giuseppe (University of Torino, Italy)

WS Organisation Co-Chairs:

Ortiz, Angel (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)

Panetto, Hervé (University Henri Poincaré Nancy I, CRAN, France)

International Program Committee

IPC Chair

Molina, Arturo (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Chair of IFAC TC 5.3

IPC Vice-Chair

Panetto, Hervé (University Henri Poincaré Nancy I, CRAN, France), Vice-Chair of IFAC TC 5.3

IPC Members

Albani, Antonia (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Berio, Giuseppe (University of Torino, Italy)

Chapurlat, Vincent (LGI2P, France)

Chatha, Kamran (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

Chen, David (University of Bordeaux 1, LAP/GRAI, France)

Chen, Pin (Defence Science & Technology Organisation Department of Defence, Australia)

Goranson, Ted (Old Dominion University, USA)

Jaekel, Frank-Walter (IPK, Germany)

Jochem, Roland (University of Kassel, Germany)

Mezgar, Istvan (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Opdahl, Andreas (University of Bergen, Norway)

Ortiz, Angel (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)

Pingaud, Hervé (Ecole des Mines d'Albi Carmaux, France)

Shorter, David (IT Focus, UK)

Vallespir, Bruno (University of Bordeaux 1, LAP/GRAI, France)

Whitman, Larry (Wichita State University, USA)

Zelm, Martin (CIMOSA, Germany)

The I-ESA’2006 International Conference

Organized and supported by the European Network of Excellence INTEROP "Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software (IST- 508011, www.interop-noe.org) and the Integrated Project ATHENA"Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Application (IST-507849, www.athena-ip.org), I-ESA brings together the world's leading researchers and practitioners in the area Interoperability for Enterprise Applications and Software.