CALL FOR PAPERS

2^nd International Workshop on Services Computing for B2B (SC4B2B)

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

 

Description

The workshop will contribute to the achievements in Services Computing which currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment. In general Services Computing covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services. In this particular workshop, we focus on those business services that realize inter-organizational systems used to carry out electronic business transactions typically in Business-to-Business environments. Since we consider governmental organizations as economic entities like companies, we also invite submissions that consider inter-organizational systems in the e-Government domain.

Topics

Topics addressed by the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Architecture

• Service-oriented Architecture Approaches to B2B
• Coordination/optimization in supply chain, inventory management, auctions and other forms of negotiation, pricing, contracting, EDI
• Interoperability Issues in B2B
• One-stop-services in e-Government
• Security Issues in B2B
• Legacy System Integration into B2B

Inter-organizational Business Processes

• Languages for Modeling Inter-organizational Business Processes
• Consistency between Local and Inter-organizational Business Processes
• Simulation and Monitoring of Inter-organizational Business Processes
• Metadata for Inter-organizational Business Processes
• Composition for Inter-organizational Business Processes

Business Document Exchanges

• Business Document Standards
• Conceptual Modeling of Business Document Standards

Business/IT Alignment in B2B

• Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
• Service Identification, Modeling, and Granularity
• Service Revenue Models
• Negotiation

General Topics

• B2B Case Studies
• E-Government Case Studies
• Reference Models for B2B

Important Dates

Submission		March 30, 2010
Notification		April 15, 2010
Final Paper		April 30, 2010

Submissions

Authors must submit unpublished papers that are not under review at any other workshop / conference / journal. Submission format is PDF. Papers must be formatted according to the new IEEE CS Conference Papers style: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

The maximum number of pages differs for the different types of papers:

Full paper		6 pages
Short paper		4 pages
Position papers		2 pages

All papers should be submitted via the workshop submission system at http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=185. First time users need to register with the system first.

The accepted papers will be published as part of IEEE Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES) conference proceedings which will appear in the IEEE Digital Library and which will be index by EI. At least one of the co-authors must present the paper at the conference. A separate registration fee for the presenting author is required, i.e. if the author presents another paper at one of the co-located events ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES, (s)he is required to register once more for presenting this paper.

Workshop Organizer

Birgit Hofreiter
University of Liechtenstein

Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse
9490 Vaduz
Liechtenstein

birgit.hofreiter [at] hochschule.li

Program Committee

An invitation has been sent to the following intended PC members:

Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology
Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig
Eric Dubois, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim
Philipp Liegl, Vienna University of Technology
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research
Thomas Setzer, Technical University of Munich
Michael Strommer, Research Studios Austria
Guido Wirtz, University of Bamberg
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente
Jih-Shyr Yih, IBM Research