CoopIS 2015 - 23rd International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2015)

According to many scholars, cooperation, together with solidarity and sense of the community, upheld the advent of the Homo Sapiens on the Planet. After more than 200 thousand years, we argue that the advent of the Homo Digitalis will be based on the same tenets, but supported by advanced cooperation tools in a deeply changed digitalised world. Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) facilitate the cooperation between individuals, organizations, smart devices, and systems of systems, which provide flexible, scalable and intelligent services to enterprises, public institutions and user communities. As a result, people can interact, share information and work together across physical barriers in cloud-based environments. The Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) paradigm integrates the research results from many related computing areas, such as: distributed systems, coordination technologies, process management, knowledge management, collective decision making, and systems integration technologies, while the core are the organizational and business models that help shaping at best the technological solutions.
In recent years, several innovative technologies have emerged: Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Computing, Internet of Things, Linked Open Data, mash-ups, Semantic Systems, Collective Awareness Platforms, Processes as a Service, etc. New technologies have created the need for new forms of diffused social computing, an even tighter integration of data and knowledge with large-scale collaboration platforms, by crowdsourcing and community-centric cooperation. The notion of business processes and workflows has evolved from prescriptive approaches to agile, adaptive and goal-driven solutions. Emerging collaboration platforms are introducing flexibility, transparency, dynamic re-planning as key features, supported by new ways of monitoring and managing KPIs, analyzing environmental information, e.g., adopting complex event processing techniques. Building next generation CIS requires technical breakthroughs in terms of dynamic, reliable and secure collaborative information technologies to overcome the tough challenges that traditional approaches fail to face. Several challenges are put in front of us, from the revival of the socio-economic system to reforms of citizens’ engagement in the public institutions, from participatory Open Innovation in modern enterprises to social cohesion and democratic models in a renovated public administration. All such challenges require a deep rethinking of CIS that represent their fundamental technological support in addressing specific application domains, such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health, and e-Science.
The CoopIS conference series have established themselves as major international forums for exchanging ideas and results on scientific research and practical experiences in the fields mentioned above.
As in previous years, CoopIS'15 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM Federated Conferences ("OnTheMove"), covering different aspects of distributed information systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'15 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:
User-centric Cooperation methods, tools, and platforms
Architectures and Middleware for Cooperative Information Systems (CIS)
CIS Applications
User-centric Cooperation methods, tools, and platforms
Frameworks and Methodologies for large scale Collaboration
Collective Awareness Platforms for Social (CAPS) and business innovation
New approaches in process modelling, analysis and design
Distributed & cross-organizational process management
Variability, adaptation and evolution of process-aware CIS
Business process intelligence & discovery
Key Performance Indicators and Monitoring in CIS
Distributed process compliance, governance, and risk management
Collaborative service and application design
Collaborative Open Innovation Management
Integrated product and process lifecycle management
Data- and knowledge-intensive processes
Collaboration and negotiation protocols
Integrating processes with real-world events
Process support in smart and ubiquitous environments
Enabling interactions among processes
Collaborative processes
Large scale Cooperation models
Situation-aware processes
Architectures and Middleware for Cooperative Information Systems (CIS)
Dynamic business networks and the Internet of Services
Architectures and platforms for Collaborative Awareness Platforms for Social (CAPS)
Internet of Services and Internet of Things integration
Service-oriented middleware & Web services
Grid computing and cloud computing
Semantic interoperability of CIS
Web-centric information and processing architectures
Self-adapting and self-healing CIS
Ontologies for CIS
Semantic Web-based CIS
Model-driven middleware architectures
Multi-agent systems and architectures for CIS
Peer-to-peer technologies
Mobile collaboration platforms and services
Security & privacy in CIS
Quality of service in CIS
Mediation, matchmaking, and brokering architectures
CIS Applications
Collaboration and knowledge sharing in enterprises
Innovative CIS applications for large-scale organizations
Social Computing and Large Scale Collaboration
Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
Advances in e-science and Grid computing applications
Medical and biological information systems
E-Learning and large scale collaborative educational systems (e.g., MOOC)
Industrial applications of CIS
Mobile collaborative applications
E-communities and Web-based collaboration
Collaborative Open Innovation in enterprises and civil organizations
Enterprise 2.0
Integrated vs. distributed supply chains
Concurrent engineering