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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on
SEMANTICS OF ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION
http://www.fluidbusiness.org/events/sei2001_workshop/
OOPSLA 2001(http://oopsla.acm.org/)
Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A.
October 14, 2001
THEME
The growth of the Internet and the expansion of e-commerce systems have
accentuated pre-existing problems related with systems interoperability
and the definition of common semantics throughout business
organisations. Consequently, an increasing amount of cost and effort is
dedicated to the integration of systems and applications. The issues
involved, however, are not just related to infrastructure and
technology. Indeed fundamental problems exist around the understanding
of what 'concepts' are shared, how they relate and what mechanisms
should be adopted to allow systems to communicate and interoperate at
all levels.
Genericity mechanisms, such as patterns, frameworks and components, have
the potential for defining, modeling, designing and implementing shared
concepts. Such mechanisms have inherited many object-oriented principles
and built upon them to enhance the generalised nature of business
problems and solutions both vertically (within the same domain) and
horizontally (across different domains). Increasingly, these are
supported by emerging 'ontological' definitions and related languages
(e.g. XML) designed to exemplify genericity. The potential contribution
of XML to the definition of business ontologies and semantics is also
relevant. Researchers and practitioners world-wide are exploring the
possibility of defining interoperable industry specifications based on
XML and the definition of an Ontology Markup Language.
The adoption and implementation of genericity mechanisms and ontological
'tools' is difficult to implement in 'greenfield' situations. These
difficulties are exacerbated in 'brownfield' situations in which clear
architectural separations do not exist and multiple technologies do
exist.
This workshop welcomes the participation of all academics, researchers
and practitioners interested in approaches aimed at achieving the
integration of enterprise systems
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The workshop seeks high quality submissions in two categories:
· Full technical papers, describing original, unpublished research (10
pages).
· Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results
(6 pages).
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two referees and selected
papers will be made available to participants online prior to the
workshop. Guidelines for typesetting of camera-ready copies will be
communicated to authors of accepted papers.
The three best papers will be further reviewed and extended for
publication in a special section of the Journal of Management
Information Systems.
Papers must be submitted by e-mail to the organizers
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions of papers: August 17, 2001
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2001
Camera ready copies: October 1, 2001
Workshop: October 14, 2001
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The organizing committee is composed of the following academics and
industrial practitioners:
Mark Lycett (Brunel University, UK)
Paul Allen (Computer Associates)
Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University, UK)
Grant Holland (Sun Microsystems)
Tony Morgan (Unisys)
SUPPORTED BY:
Brunel University (West London, UK)
Aonix
Computer Associates
Object Management Group (OMG)
Sun Microsystems
Unisys
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