PRO-VE 2012 - 2012 : 13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises

PRO-VE?12
13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises
Bournemouth, UK, 1-3 October 2012
Important dates
Main conference:
Abstracts submission: 28 Feb 2012
Full paper submission: 15 Apr 2012
Acceptance notice: 10 May 2012
Camera ready submission: 31 May 2012
Applied developments/Industry track:
Short abstracts submission: 17 Jun 2012
Extended abstracts submission: 31 Jul 2012
Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services
Recent developments under the umbrella of Future Internet offer new concepts and mechanisms to support a new generation of advanced collaborative networks. Particularly relevant is the consolidation of the Internet of Services and its associated infrastructures and related concepts such as service ecologies and service parks. Complementarily, recent progress on Cyber Physical Systems induce new virtualization possibilities for resources and capabilities, leading to notions of Industrial Internet, Sensing Enterprise, Internet of Events, etc.
Moving from services, provided by a single entity, to more complex or integrated multi-stakeholder services calls for new approaches in dynamic service composition aimed at effective support of the ?collaboration? perspective. This is a fundamental step in reducing the gap between the notions of software service, technical service, and business service.
Collaborative Networks not only benefit from such new possibilities, these provide some fundamental elements supporting the structural and behavioural models, value systems and value creation, and the business perspective of collaborative networks. On the other hand, development of the so-called Services Science adds clarification to the semantics of the service concept in which context synergies with collaborative networks need to be further explored.
The accumulated body of empiric knowledge and the size of the involved research community in Collaborative Networks provide the basis for leveraging the potential of new concepts and mechanisms in addressing big societal challenges and consolidating the scientific discipline on ?Collaborative Networks?. Such discipline is strongly multidisciplinary and thus PRO-VE Working Conference is designed to offer a major opportunity to mix contributions from Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Managementl and Socio-Human communities.
The main theme of PRO-VE?12 focuses thus on crucial aspects to empower Collaborative Networks as a main actor of change in society.
PRO-VE, as the most focused scientific / technical conference in the area, offers a major opportunity for the presentation and discussion of both latest research developments and industrial practice case studies. Following the IFIP international mission, the PRO-VE conference offers a forum for collaboration among different regions of the world. This conference continues a series of successful conferences of PRO-VE?99 (Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000 (Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE?02 (Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE?03 (Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE?04 (Toulouse, France), PRO-VE?05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE?06 (Helsinki, Finland), PRO-VE?07 (Guimarães, Portugal), PRO-VE?08 (Poznan, Poland), PRO-VE?09 (Thessaloniki, Greece), PRO-VE?10 (St. Etienne, France), and PRO-VE?11 (S. Paulo, Brazil).
TOPICS
A plurality of scientific communities in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Management and Socio-Human sciences are encouraged to submit. Both theoretical works and sound case studies are expected. The conference will include technical papers and discussion panels. Proposals for organizing associated events, namely by project consortia focused on the area of Collaborative Networks are welcome.
Future Internet - concepts and mechanisms
Internet of Services
Service infrastructures
Cloud Computing and Collaborative Networks
Cloud computing architectures in support of collaboration
Business approaches and models
Services ScienceModelling and formalization
Service ecologies and Service parks
Software service-oriented architecture
Service composition
Semantic service discovery
Collaborative Business Processes and Service Composition
Integrated services / value-added services
Business process and service composition
Collaborative Cyber Physical Systems
CPS Infrastructures
Sensing Enterprise and Internet of Events
Collaborative CPS societies
Behavioral issues and governance
Typologies of collaborative behaviours
Trust modelling and management
Risk and uncertainty management
Serious games in CN
Affective computing in CN
Collaborative Networks and Big Societal Challenges
Role of CNs in addressing big emerging challenges
Case studies and new directions
Application areas (examples)
Eco-Industrial Parks
Healthcare collaborative systems
Active Ageing Networks
Ambient Assisted Living networks
Distributed manufacturing networks
Educational networks
Transportation and mobility support networks
Collaborative e-government
Agribusiness networks
Disaster rescue networks
Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 8 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee. However, prospective authors should submit a short abstract in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope.
Proceedings to be published by Springer.
Special issues of journals will be published with selected papers.