Joint Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks (BSN '06)

2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations (SoS4CO '06)

June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA
http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co

in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology
(CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06)
http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06

Abstract:

Business Services Networks (BSN’s) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects.
 
This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN’s and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter-enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life-cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations.
 
We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN’s from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
BSN Strategy

• Business models
• Integration alliances and interoperability
• Value added for BSN vendors and adopters
• Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing

BSN Design

• Service-Oriented solutions
• Requirements engineering for BSN
• Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc.
• Match-making of choreographies of different cooperative organizations
• Match-making of semantic service descriptions
• Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes and workflows
• Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI
• Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation
• Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN

BSN Management & Execution

• SOA-Enablement of software vendors
• Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• International provisioning and adoption barriers
• Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software
• Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS)
• Distributed stateless and stateful transactions
• Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN
• Auditing of service evolution

Submissions:
Please submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit.

Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society, please use the IEEE double-column paper format at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/FORMAT.DOC. Papers can be at most 8 pages.

Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon.
          
Registration:
Please use the CEC/EEE conference site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program.
 
Important Dates:

 
Enquiries:
Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>.
 
Joint CFP for Circulation:
TXT:  http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/cfp.txt
PDF:  http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/cfp.pdf
DOC: http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/cfp.doc

Co-Chairs
 
Stéphane Gagnon
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
 
Christian Huemer
University of Vienna, Austria
 
Patrick C. K. Hung
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
 
Andreas Wombacher
University of Twente, Netherlands
 
Raymond Wong
University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia

Program Committee
 
Antonia Albani
University of Augsburg, Germany

Morad Benyoucef
University of Ottawa, Canada

William Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Jen-Yao Chung
IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Ernesto Damiani
University of Milan, Italy

Eric Dubois
Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Birgit Hofreiter
University of Vienna, Austria

Jane Hsu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Ottokar Kulendik
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany

Franky Lam
National ICT Australia, Australia

Bendick Mahleko
Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany

Angel Ortiz
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Katia Passerini
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Pascal Pecquet
Université de Montpellier I, France

Tony Shan
Wachovia Bank, USA

William Shui
University of New South Wales, Australia

Richard Soley
Object Management Group, USA

Cheickna Sylla
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Kerry Taylor
CSIRO, Australia

Vladimir Tosic
Lakehead University, Canada

Ivana Trickovic
SAP AG, Germany

Dan Zhang
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Jia Zhang
Northern Illinois University, USA

Aoying Zhou
Fudan University, China

Hans Dieter Zimmermann
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany