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   IEEE 2010 International Workshop on Convergence of Business Architecture, SOA, and Enterprise Architecture (BA-SOA-EA 2010)

Miami, Florida, USA, one day between July 5-10, 2010
in conjunction with ICWS 2010, SCC 2010, CLOUD 2010, and SERVICES 2010

URL: http://www.servicescongress.org/2010/workshops/ba/index.html 

Description

The modernization of services industries calls for a deeper integration of several business and IT disciplines. Significant knowledge sources reside in individual domains spanning business strategy, operational process management and information technology. A number of recent and ongoing engineering, computer science and business research efforts have provided invaluable formalization toward understanding services from a multidisciplinary point-of-view. These activities contribute to a potentially deeper integration across strategy, operations and IT by providing a diversity of assets useful for transformation of the services industries. Academic, industrial and standard organizations have made great progress in the individual disciplines and their cohesive convergence, but substantial challenges remain unresolved.

As a clear signal of this positive trend and hurdles, several architecture endeavors populate the research and professional literature. Specifically, three architectures have clearly emerged, i.e., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA), each posing the goal of providing technical rigor and convergence across their own communities of practitioners and researchers.  However, the deep interconnection across these architectures and related practices present some formidable technical challenges. There is a number of new and important areas of work recently emerged as a consequence of these challenges. These efforts and related communities of interest are found today mostly in standards organizations and business analyst firms traditionally focused on each of the individual domains. However, with the new positioning of Business Architecture coming from a major revamp of interest from services companies and government organizations, the subject of gaps, overlaps and related fundamental issues across architectures resurface. As a simple but conclusive example of the seminal cross-fertilization opportunity, Business Process Management (BPM) is today addressed by each SOA, EA and BA. Considering that BPM is a central subject in services business, the extent to which this commonality of concerns across architectures constitutes a redundancy, an oppositional view, or a complementarity remains to be explained. Similarly, "industry models" (in a wide and at times, also ambiguous sense) is a subject of research and practitioners' concern from different architecture and related BPM communities. There are several other important topics belonging to the same sphere of convergence that should be addressed in this Workshop.

The goal of this workshop is to generate some of the foundational ground needed from research and practice that can help SOA, BA and EA converge and / or be unified whenever necessary for more cohesive transformation and optimization of services organizations. Effective use of automation and supporting information technology in services industries will be substantially accelerated by seeing BA, EA and SOA providing foundations and practices that conclusively benefit from each other and become much more prescriptive than they are when individually applied.. The intent of this workshop is to gather contributions from academia and industry to foster innovation and seed common agendas across the several disciplines.

BA-SOA-EA 2010 will be part of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), which will be co-located with ICWS 2010, CLOUD 2010, and SCC 2010.  

You are welcome to submit original, UNPUBLISHED research papers which are related to the convergence or interplay of BA, SOA, and EA.  

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 program committee members. All the accepted and presented papers by the workshop will be included in the Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

 

Important Dates

 

Paper Submission

All papers should be submitted via the integrated paper submission, review, and registration system at http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=190
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*First time users need to register with the system first.

 

Workshop Chairs

Dr. Jorge Sanz, IEEE Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA. 
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, IEEE Senior Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Prof. Leon Zhao, Chairman Dept. of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong.

 

Questions?

If you have any questions on this workshop, please contact Dr. Jorge Sanz at jorges@us.ibm.com.