CoopIS 2016 - 2016 International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems

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 and smart devices can interact, share information and work together across physical barriers typically exploiting 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 selecting, shaping and managing at 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 fuelled the need for new forms of large-scale social computing, an even tighter integration of data and knowledge with large-scale collaboration platforms, by crowd-sourcing 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 CISs 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 provide the fundamental technological backbone for addressing specific application domains, such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health, and e-Sciences.
The CoopIS conference series have established themselves as major international forums for exchanging ideas and results from scientific research and practical experiences in the fields mentioned above.
As in previous years, CoopIS'16 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'16 are logically grouped in four broad thematic areas, and include but are not limited to:
Applications from emerging areas of CIS
Methods and principles for the engineering of CIS
Architectures and Middleware for CIS
User-centric cooperation methods, tools, and platforms
Applications from emerging areas of CIS
Internet of things
Cyber physical systems and Industry 4.0
Cloud computing
Smart systems (city, home, grid etc.)
Digital humanities and e-Sciences
Big data
E-Learning platforms
Intelligent traffic systems
Mobile collaboration platforms and services
E-Business, e-Commerce and e-Government
Medical and biological information systems
Methods and principles for the engineering of CIS
New approaches in process modelling, analysis and design
Business process intelligence & discovery
Distributed & cross-organizational process coordination
Management of data- and knowledge-intensive processes
Coordination of interactions among processes
New programming paradigms
Flexible distributed transaction models
Interoperability and integration of heterogeneous, autonomous systems
Evolution and re-engineering techniques for CIS
Adaptive systems
Self-organized systems
Architectures and Middleware for CIS
Event-driven architectures
Coordination systems, models and languages
Semantic information systems engineering
Model-driven architectures
Innovative middleware approaches
Security and privacy in CIS
Benchmarking and evaluation (performance, scalability, usability etc.)
Multi-agent systems and architectures for CIS
Quality of service in CIS architectures
Ontologies for CIS
Peer-to-peer technologies
User-centric cooperation methods, tools, and platforms
Collective awareness platforms for social and business innovation (CAPS)
Collaborative systems design and engineering
Frameworks and Methodologies for large scale collaboration
Situation-aware processes
Distributed process compliance, governance, and risk management
Social network platforms and models for large-scale collaboration
Collaborative open innovation management
Key performance indicators (KPI) and monitoring in CIS
Integrated product and process lifecycle management
Process support in smart and ubiquitous environments
Cooperation, communication, negotiation protocols