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The 7th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Conference
16-19 September 2003, Brisbane, Australia
http://edocconference.org/
Sponsored by
- IEEE Computer Society,
- IEEE Communications Society, and
- Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems
Technology (DSTC)
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference is the primary
annual event addressing issues related to enterprise architecture and
distributed object computing. It embraces the rapidly maturing
distributed object and component technologies for enterprise
computing, such as J2EE, .NET, as well as emerging new standards and
paradigms, such as Web Services and event-driven computing, as a basis
for alignment of business and IT. EDOC 2003 is the latest in the
successful series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought
together leading researchers and industry experts to discuss problems,
solutions, and experiences in meeting current and future enterprise
distributed computing needs.
SCOPE
Recent advances in Internet-based information and communication
technology (ICT) have drastically improved the possibilities for
businesses to engage in much more dynamic, new forms of co-operation.
The appearance of such networked enterprises, in which organisations
work together for mutual benefit, also gives rise to a change in the
nature of enterprise computing. Enterprise computing traditionally
deals with the organisational, technical and engineering challenges
when introducing or integrating distributed business information
systems within one organisation. Enterprise computing today has to
deal with application integration across company boundaries and
support inter-organisational business processes, collaboration, and
transactions, while satisfying the flexibility and security
requirements of each business partner.
EDOC 2003 will address new developments in distributed enterprise
computing to support such dynamic collaborative business. It will
present innovations in distributed object and component technology,
e.g., J2EE, .NET, and Web Services, to address the challenges of
integration, flexibility, scalability, reliability, security and
quality of service of enterprise software. New approaches to modelling
and design of enterprise systems, such as OMG's Model Driven
Architecture (MDA), the ODP Enterprise Language, policy specification
and business process modelling, ensure alignment of system
architectures with business goals, policies and processes. Emerging
standards, such as RM-ODP, MDA, ebXML, and Web Services, are expected
to result in improved tool support and to raise the levels of
technical and semantical inter-operability. Together these
developments bring enterprise distributed object computing closer to
its ultimate goals of effortless integration, seamless
inter-operation, and alignment with the business processes it
supports.
TOPICS
The programme committee seeks high quality papers describing new
research results, experience reports and case studies related to all
aspects of distributed enterprise computing. We particularly solicit
contributions that address the challenges of effortless integration,
seamless inter-operation and alignment with business goals, policies
and processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Enterprise architecture and modelling (methods, tools and
techniques)
* Model driven design and architectural alignment
* (Inter-)enterprise integration and collaboration
* Business process and workflow support
* Service-oriented architecture and design
* Contract and policy based management (automated negotiation,
enactment, monitoring and enforcement)
* Use and development of enterprise and integration standards
(ODP Enterprise Language, OMG's MDA, ebXML, UML 2.0, EDOC
profile for UML, W3C Web Services, etc.)
* Utility or service-based enterprise computing (specification,
discovery, use, composition)
* Use and enhancement of middleware platforms, such as J2EE and
.NET.
* Security of web-based applications
* Enterprise applications of Web Services and GRID-based computing
* Enterprise architectures for e-business, e-commerce, and e-government
* Enterprise frameworks for specific domains (e.g., finance,
telecom, aerospace)
* Practical experiences with enterprise distributed object
computing
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
This year EDOC will accept two types of paper submissions: research
papers and experience reports. Research papers should describe
original research results that have not been accepted or submitted for
publication elsewhere. Research papers will be evaluated for
scientific or technical contribution, originality, appropriateness and
significance. Experience reports should describe new insights gained
from case studies or the application of EDOC technology in practice.
Experience reports will be evaluated on their appropriateness,
significance and clarity of expression. Authors of all accepted papers
will be invited to present their work at the conference. Accepted
research papers will also be included in the conference proceedings
published by IEEE CS Press.
All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the programme
committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case
of experience reports. All submissions must be in English. Research
submissions should not exceed 12 pages in the IEEE format. Please
refer to the formatting instructions at
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
Experience reports must not exceed 5,000 words.
Submissions should be made electronically in PDF (preferred) or
PostScript format. The paper submission process has two separate
stages. Authors are requested to submit the title, keywords and an
abstract of their paper first, in order to facilitate the allocation
of submissions to reviewers. The full paper submission deadline is
approximately two weeks later.
TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
The first day of the conference will consist of tutorial presentations
of either 1/2 or a whole day in duration. Topics of interest are the
same as those listed for the papers above. Proposals should be
in the form of:
- 500 word abstract and table of contents
- 200 word Speaker biography
- list of previous deliveries of this tutorial
Tutorial presenters will receive standard IEEE presentation rates and
some accomodation. Proposals should be submitted to:
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission due: 3 March 2003
Paper submission due: 14 March 2003
Tutorial submission due: 18 April 2003
Acceptance notification: 12 May 2003
Camera-ready copy due: 20 June 2003
Conference dates: 16-19 September 2003
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Keith Duddy (General Chair)
CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC), Australia
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Maarten W.A. Steen (Programme Co-Chair)
Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
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Barrett R. Bryant (Programme Co-Chair and Tutorials Chair)
University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA
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Kelli Shanahan (Local Organization Chair)
CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC), Australia
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CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE
Colin Atkinson, Chair (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Cris Kobryn (Telelogic, USA)
Zoran Milosevic (DSTC, Australia)
Sanya Uehara (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan)
Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA)
Alain Wegmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Jan-Řyvind Aagedal (SINTEF, Norway)
Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
Nigel Baker (University of West England, UK)
Jean Bézivin (Université de Nantes, France)
Fred Cummins (EDS, USA)
Desmond D'Souza (Kinetium, USA)
Wolfgang Emmerich (Zuhlke Engineering & University College London, UK)
Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin, Germany)
Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Jun Han (Monash University, Australia)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Yigal Hoffner (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland)
Sridhar Iyengar (IBM, USA)
Stuart Kent (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Peter Linington (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Munich University, Germany)
Emil Lupu (Imperial College, UK)
Naftaly Minsky (Rutgers University, USA)
Jishnu Mukerji (HP, USA)
Takako Nakatani (S-Lagoon, Japan)
Jim Ning (Accenture, USA)
Francois Pacull (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Mariá José Presso (France Telecom R&D, France)
Thomas Preuss (FH Brandenburg, Germany)
Rajeev Raje (Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA)
Kerry Raymond (DSTC, Australia)
Marten van Sinderen (Twente University, the Netherlands)
Morris Sloman (Imperial College, UK)
Richard Mark Soley (OMG, USA)
Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe (Open-IT Ltd, UK)
Andrew Watson (OMG, USA)
Karl-Heinz Weiss (Oracle Consulting, Germany)
Alan Wills (Trireme International, UK)
Bryan Wood (Open-IT Ltd, UK)
Christian Zeidler (ABB Corporate Research, Germany)
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