Background and Goals I-WEST is an initiative of IICREST, the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology. I-WEST aims at providing a platform to researchers from academia and industry for discussing challenges, solutions, ideas and experiences related to the broad field of enterprise systems and technology.
Each year, a special theme is chosen within this broad field, in order to make presentations and discussions more focused. The theme of I-WEST 2010 is:
Collaborative Environments: Support for Complex Distributed Activities.
Collaborative environments, representing heavily distributed service-oriented and context-aware ICT facilities, have been proving useful applicability concerning: (i) learning and training virtual communities; (ii) governmental agencies cooperation for environment protection and road traffic safety; (iii) social networking. This requires sometimes “externalized” IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. We need to take a closer look into the main technical foundations and related challenges concerning collaborative environments, taking into consideration also the applicability in domains of high societal relevance. The two-day I-WEST event is to bring together researchers, academics and innovators to discuss the latest collaborative IT innovations intended to improve quality of life, create business opportunities, and stimulate economic growth.
Hence, the goal of I-WEST 2010 is to look at issues related to advancing collaborative enterprise technologies and applying them in new ways, to create solutions for the dynamic and networked enterprises of the future. Spontaneous collaboration, context awareness, economic sustainability, and adaptive behavior are just some desirable properties of future enterprise systems, which have to be realized in distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic environments, and for which creative solutions grounded in enterprise technologies have to be developed. I-WEST 2010 also has the intention to unite researchers from various communities, including researchers working on enterprise computing, enterprise interoperability, context-aware systems, IT infrastructures, model-driven development and service-oriented architectures.
Topics
The topics of I-WEST 2010 are as follows:
- enterprise engineering
- context-aware enterprises
- process-aware enterprises
- enterprise interoperability
- economic value modelling
- business goal modeling
- requirements elicitation
- enterprise architectures
- business-IT alignment and traceability
- maturity models
- consistency validation and enforcement
- model-driven service-oriented design
- model-driven architecture
- computation-independent, platform-independent and platform-specific models
- meta-models and transformations
- service-oriented computing
- service publication, discovery, and composition
- externalization of enterprise IT systems and services
- “external” IT: cloud/grid/utility computing, SaaS, hosting and outsourcing
- business drivers and models for “externalized” IT
- interoperability, mobility and security issues
Paper Submission
I-WEST 2010 invites papers describing original contributions related to the topics listed above. Submitted papers should be in English, in LNCS format, no longer than 15 pages and provided as PDF files. LNCS style files are available at the Springer LNCS website (
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs) via the link Information for LNCS Authors and Volume Editors.
Publication
The I-WEST'10 papers will be published by INSTICC as a printed proceedings with ISBN and online on the INSTICC website (
http://www.insticc.net).
Important Dates
Paper Submission: May 7, 2010
Authors Notification: June 1, 2010
Early registration: Camera-ready Submission and Registration: June 18, 2010
Workshop Organization
Workshop Chairs
José Cordeiro (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC / IICREST, Portugal)
Dimitris Mitrakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / IICREST, Greece)
Boris Shishkov (Delft University of Technology / IICREST, The Netherlands)
Program Committee
Dumitru Dan Burdescu (University of Craiova, Romania)
Kuo-Ming Chao (Coventry University, United Kingdom)
Joaquim Filipe (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC / IICREST, Portugal)
Alexandre Girardi (Multitel ASBL, Belgium)
Markus Helfert (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Ilian Ilkov (IBM Nederland B.V., The Netherlands)
Ivan Ivanov (SUNY Empire State College, United States)
Dimitri Konstantas (University of Geneva / IICREST, Switzerland)
Kecheng Liu (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Bart Nieuwenhuis (University of Twente / Exser, The Netherlands)
Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente / CTIT / IICREST, The Netherlands)
Alexander Verbraeck (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
(list not yet complete)
Workshop Format
The workshop will be a two-day event with oral presentations, discussions, and invited talks.
Contacts
IICREST Events - I-WEST 2010
emails:
jcordeiro[at]insticc.org
mitrakos[at]eng.auth.gr
b.b.shishkov[at]iicrest.eu
