About the Conference
The EDOC Conference is the primary annual event focusing on the convergence
of the paradigms, technologies and methods involved in enterprise computing.
EDOC 2005 is the ninth event in the successful series of conferences, which
since 1997 has brought together leading researchers, architects and
practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss enterprise computing
challenges and solutions.
Today the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems
raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and policy modelling
through to the deployment of specific implementation technologies and paradigms,
and involve a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, tools and technologies.
They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from
electronic and mobile commerce to real-time applications for the extended
enterprise, e.g., business activity monitoring.
The EDOC Conference emphasises the integration of enterprise computing
research and development results, fostering an enterprise engineering approach
that can address and relate business, application and middleware levels. The
themes of openness and distributed computing, based on services, components and
objects, provide a useful and unifying conceptual thread for this purpose.
Topics
The EDOC conference seeks
high-quality papers addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the
realization technologies involved in building, deploying and operating
enterprise computing systems. Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:
- Enterprise computing - support for business processes
- Modelling for enterprise computing, integration and management, and relating business
models to system specifications
- Enterprise computing concepts for specific domains, including
- Electronic and mobile commerce
- Real-time applications for the extended enterprise, e.g. Business activity
monitoring
- Vertical domains such as finance, telecommunications, automotive, aerospace, command &
control and healthcare
- Enterprise requirements engineering and modelling
- Enterprise architecture design and modelling
- Design and modelling paradigms for enterprise computing, including
- Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and other model-driven approaches
- Service- and component-oriented development and architecture
- Collaborative development and cooperative engineering
- IT aspects of inter-enterprise collaboration and virtual enterprises
- Integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information
- Trust, security, privacy and QoS issues in enterprise computing
- Quality-assurance of enterprise computing systems
- Evolution and management of enterprise computing systems
- Integration of sensing and tracking technologies in enterprise systems
- Interoperability models, platforms, and techniques
- Realization technologies for enterprise computing, including
- Ontologies and Semantic Web support
- Middleware standards and systems, such as CORBA, WS, J2EE and .NET
- Modelling and description languages, such as XML, RDF, OWL and UML
- Enterprise computing tools and tool chains
- Organization and principles of software factories
- Case studies
Submission Guidelines
Two types of paper submissions will be accepted: research papers and
experience reports. Research papers should describe original research results
that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers
will be evaluated for scientific or technical contribution, originality,
appropriateness and significance. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages in the
IEEE format. Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case
studies or the application of EDOC technology in practice. These papers will be
evaluated on their appropriateness, significance and clarity of expression.
Submissions should contain at least 2,000 words and must not exceed 5,000 words.
All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international
program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of
experience reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be
made electronically in PDF (preferred) or PostScript format via the electronic
submission system via the EDOC Conference Management system.
Journal Publications
The selected best research papers will be considered for a special issue of
the International Journal
of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS) to be published in 2006.
The selected best industry- and application-oriented papers will be
considered for a special issue of the
IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C: Applications & Reviews to be
published in 2007.
