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
2006 is the tenth event in the series of conferences, which since
1997 has brought together leading
researchers, policy makers, architects and practitioners from academia, industry
and government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions.
Today the creation, operation and evolution of enterprise computing systems
raise concerns that range from high-level requirements and policy modeling
through to the deployment of specific implementation technologies and paradigms,
and involve a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and
technologies. They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry
segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications
for the extended enterprises, e.g., business processes integration, management,
execution and monitoring.
The EDOC Conference emphasizes the
integration and management of enterprise computing research and development
results, fostering an enterprise and social organizational engineering approach
that can address and relate business, application, middleware and technical
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 program committee 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
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related protocols such as BPEL,
WSLA, WSDL and SOAP
- Modelling for enterprise computing, integration and management, and
relating business models to system specifications
- Intra- or inter- enterprise for business-to-business control
- Enterprise computing security, privacy and trust considerations and objectives
- Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in
enterprise computing
- 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 computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
- 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
- Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) 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
- Human and social organizational settings of enterprise computing
- Organization and principles of software factories
- Commercialization of enterprise computing technologies
- 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 enterprise computing 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.
- Complete package (zip)
- Formatting guideline (txt)
- Formatting instruction (pdf)
- Latex style files (zip)
- Word template (dot)
Review Policy
IEEE Policy and professional ethics requires that referees treat the contents
of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others
before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under
review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that
access provides.
Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be
regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference
Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.
Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for
the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in
offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an
invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to
deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of
submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair
should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be
made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require
advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.
IEEE Conference Proceedings
All the EDOC 2006 papers are published by IEEE. All papers will be accessible
via http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Also,
all papers are indexed in IEE Inspec, and EI Compendex.
Journals Associated with EDOC 2006
The selected best research papers will be considered for special issues in
top notch journals. Further details will be announced soon.
The selected best research papers will be considered for special issues in
Information
Systems Frontiers and possibly other top notch journals. Further details
will be announced soon.
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 2008.
A post-conference article will be published on IEEE IT Professional
in Nov-Dec 2006. The article will cover the important topics and issues
discussed in the conference. Please visit the
IEEE IT Professional
Web site for further information.
Contact
Information
All enquiries about the conference program should be sent to the Program
Co-chairs Qing Li and
Don Sparrow.
