I-ESA 2012 - 6th International Conference on Interoperability For Enterprise Systems And Applications

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.

Enterprise Interoperability (EI) is the ability of an enterprise or more generally an organisation to work with other enterprises or organisations without special effort. The capability to interact and exchange information both internally and with external organisations (partners, suppliers, customers, citizens…) is a key issue in the economic and public sector. It is fundamental in order to produce goods and/or services quickly and at lower cost, while ensuring higher levels of quality, customisation, services and security.

Industry’s need for Enterprise Interoperability has been one of the significant drivers for research into the Internet of the Future. EI research will embrace and extend contributions from the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services, and will go on to drive the future needs for the Internets of People, Processes, and Knowledge. The industry will find at I-ESA’12 an outstanding opportunity to exchange experience and problems on business interoperability in their daily operations.

Initiated in 2005 by two major European research projects of the 6th Framework R&D Programme of the European Commission, the ATHENA IP (Advanced Technologies for Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications, Integrated Project) and the INTEROP NoE, (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprise Applications and Software, Network of Excellence), the I-ESA conferences have been recognized as a tool to lead and generate an extensive research and industrial impact in the field of interoperability for enterprise systems and applications. Organised now by INTEROP-VLab in strong connection with its Poles, I-ESA has spread the basic philosophy developed since the beginning of these research: the solutions for EI is not only technical but is based on a combination of IT, organisation and semantics.

I-ESA brings together the world’s leading researchers and practitioners in the area of enterprise interoperability, and it is a unique forum for the exchange of visions, ideas, research results and industrial experiences, dealing with a wealth of interoperability research subjects.

TOPICS
Full and original scientific papers of high quality are invited to I-ESA’12. The conference encourages submissions in (but not restricted to) the following areas:

Business Interoperability
? Business interoperability requirements.
? Business Process interoperability.
? Knowledge management in networked enterprises.
? Legal issues for interoperability.
? Security issues in interoperability.
? The human factor in interoperability

Enterprise Modelling for Enterprise Interoperability
? Distributed Modelling.
? Meta-Modelling.
? Methods and Tools.
? Requirements engineering for interoperable enterprises.
? Service Modelling for Business.
? Synchronization of models.

Semantics for Enterprise Interoperability
? Enterprise applications analysis and semantic elicitation.
? Reasoning methods and tools for model transformation and data reconciliation.
? Semantic mediation and enrichment of enterprise models.
? Semantic Web based approaches.

Architectures and Frameworks for interoperability
? Agent based approaches to interoperability.
? Enterprise Application Integration.
? Model Driven Architectures.
? Service Oriented (Enterprise) Architecture.
? Ubiquity, mobility, open architectures and large scale interoperability.

Future Internet and Enterprise Systems
? Future Internet and Enterprise Interoperability.
? Future Internet in Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Organizations.
? Future Internet and Digital Ecosystems.
? Next generation and vision for FInES.

Platforms for Enterprise Interoperability
? Intelligent infrastructure and automated methods for business system integration.
? Internet of Future.
? Interoperability of operational Systems ? Aspects of Service Management.
? Non-functional aspects of interoperable solutions.
? Open platforms supporting collaborative businesses.

Services for Enterprise Interoperability
? Utility and Value Added Services for Enterprise Interoperability.
? Micro-services, negotiation and federated Interoperability.
? Service-oriented Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for Enterprise Interoperability.
? Service Science Management and Engineering.
? Cloud Computing, everything as a Service (XaaS).

Enterprise Interoperability Science-based
? Concepts, theories, and principles for solving Enterprise Interoperability problems.
? Frameworks for the development of Enterprise Interoperability Science-based.
? Contribution for Enterprise Interoperability Science-based from neighbouring scientific domains.
? Proof of concept and assessment in Enterprise Interoperability Science-based.

Standards for Interoperability
? Challenges in standardisation.
? Open Standards.
? Standardisation policies.
? Standards Organisations works on Enterprise Interoperability.

Interoperability Scenarios and Case Studies
? How to reduce application gaps of new interoperability results.
? Initiatives and communities.
? New Interoperability Scenarios and derived requirements.
? Problem statements.
? Success stories and lessons learnt.

Education on Enterprise Interoperability
? Business needs.
? Curricula on Enterprise Interoperability.
? Educational Methods.
? Vocational Training on Enterprise Interoperability.