CoopIS 2014 - 22nd International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2014)

22nd International Conference on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2014)
27-31 October 2014, Amantea, Italy
Acceptance rate of CoopIS in recent years was approx. 20%
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
Call for Papers
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) enable 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 the internetwork environments. The Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) paradigm integrates the research results from many related computing areas, such as: distributed systems, coordination technologies, 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 Web, Collective Awareness Platforms, 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 process and workflow 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'14 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM ("OnTheMove") federated conferences, covering different aspects of distributed information systems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'14 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:
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
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: May 11, 2012 - May 18, 2012
Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014
Conference Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2014
Acceptance Notification: Aug 06, 2014
Camera Ready Due: Aug 20, 2014
Author Registration Due: Aug 20, 2014
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submitted to CoopIS'14 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
A selection of papers accepted for and presented at CoopIS 2014 will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcis/.
Paper submission site: TBA
Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
Chaired by:
Michele Missikoff
Università Politecnica delle Marche and CNR
Italy
Lin Liu
Tsinghua University
China
Oscar Pastor
Universitad Politècnica de Valencia
Spain
Business Program Chairs:
Hervé Panetto
University of Lorraine, France
Program Committee (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, USA
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Antonio Ruiz, University of Sevilla, Spain
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Bernhard Katzy, LIACS, Netherlands
Camille Salinesi, Université of Paris I, France
Carlo Combi, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Carlos Cetina, Universidad de San Jorge at Zaragoza, Spain
David Chen, University of Bordeaux, France
Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Sydney
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon 1, France
Domenico Potena, Technical University of Marche, Italy
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, England, UK
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Fabrizio Smith, IASI-CNR, Italy
François B. Vernadat, European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Gerald Oster, Université de Lorraine, France
Guilherme Trevassos, UFRJ, Rio, Brazil
Guohui Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Gustavo Rossi, UNLP, Argentina
Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Hermann Kaind, TUW, Austria
Hervé Panetto, University of Lorraine, France
Hongji Yang, Bath Spa University, England
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Jaelson Castro, UFPE, Recife, Brazil
James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
Jan Mendling, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jianming Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Jianwen Su, UC Santa Barbara, US
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
John Miller, University of Georgia, USA
Jolita Ralité, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jose Luis Garrido, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Julius Köpke, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Leo Mark, Georgia Institute of Technology
Leszek Maciaszek, WUE, Poland
Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Maristella Matera, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mohand-Said Hacid, Lyon University, France
Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Nacer Boudjlida, Nancy-University, France
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Paul Johannesson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Rania Khalaf, IBM Research
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Rong Liu, IBM Research, USA
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Stephen Liddle, BYU, Utah, USA
Susan Urban, Texas Tech University, USA
Ted Goranson, Earl Research, USA
Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany
Vicente Pelechano, Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Werner Nutt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
Xiaoping Sun, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, PR China
Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM- CNRS/Université Montpellier 2, France