[From: "Bartolini, Claudio" <[log in to unmask]> ]
Submission deadline June 20th, 2005.
Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages (CoALa2005)
September 20, 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands
(www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/coala/2005/)
(In conjunction with EDOC2005 Conference, 21-23 September
2005)
Call for Papers
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The inter-organisational, cross-jurisdictional and collaborative
nature of business today increasingly requires that organizations
have more transparent view of data, information and processes of
their partners. This implies the need for an almost instant access
to and a more reliable and accurate view of the business contract
data, including both static contract definitions and real-time contract
execution. However, contracts are still treated mostly as legal
documents disconnected from other enterprise systems in spite of
the fact that they are a central mechanism for defining interactions
and policy framework for inter-organisational business
collaborations.
Although contracts are a key governance mechanism for such
collaborations there is currently inadequate e-business support for
using contract information to manage cross-organisational
interactions. In addition, current support for the management of
contracts themselves has an 'inward' focus, namely on internal
enterprise data and processes. The requirements of the extended
enterprise, which includes collaborative arrangements between a
company and its trading partners, increasingly demand a more
'outward' perspective on enterprise contract management. The
importance of contracts as a governing mechanism for any
extended enterprise and the capabilities of new technologies such
as Web Services require new and better understanding of contracts
from enterprise distributed perspective.
The first CoALa workshop was held in conjunction with EDOC2004
conference and the best papers from this workshop will be
published in a special issue of Journal of Collaborative Information
Systems in 2005. This second workshop was requested by many
participants of CoALa2004. The aim is to continue providing an
opportunity for exchange of ideas about the enterprise contracts,
their role in enterprise systems and new solutions to these
important enterprise problems.
SCOPE
This Workshop will provide a collaborative forum for the participants
to exchange recent or preliminary results, to conduct intensive
discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between
representatives of a technical community in the area of Contract
Architectures and Languages. The program committee seeks
papers and proposals that address various aspects of contracts,
including enterprise modeling, e-business, formal and legal aspects
with the aim of providing a balanced mix of presentations from
these different perspectives.
The duration of the workshop is one day and this workshop will be
held on September 20, 2005.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Enterprise contract architectures
- Contract as a basis for coordination of cross-organisational
interactions
- Contracts from system theoretic point of view
- Formalisms for expressing contracts
- Contract description languages
- Contract negotiation, validation
- Run-time contract monitoring and enforcement
- Standardisation activities for e-contracts (e.g. legalXML OASIS
and
UN/CEFACT): status and directions
- The use of model-driven techniques and tools - Legal issues
associated with electronic contracts - Tools
for drafting and constructing contracts - Integration of contract
management systems with other enterprise systems, e.g. payment
systems
and ERP systems - Contract management requirements for specific
contracts, e.g. SLAs, construction, financial and e-government
contracts - Trust and contract management issues - Use and
applicability of existing standards/initiatives (e.g. Web Services,
BPEL4WS, WS-CDL, RuleML etc) - Links between contracts and
business
processes - Practical experience with contract management
systems
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
To enable lively and productive discussions, attendance will be
limited to 25 participants and submission of a paper or a position
statement is required. All submissions will be formally peer
reviewed. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in the IEEE
Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation
and contact details.
They should be submitted by e-mail as postscript or PDF files
before June 20, 2005, to the Workshop Chairs (coala-
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Workshop proceedings will be published on the conference CD-
ROM, and all accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital
Library. The best papers will be considered for publication in a
special issue of a related computer science journal. At least one
author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 18, 2005.
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop papers due: 20 June 2005
Author notification: 18 July 2005
Final papers due: 15 August 2005
Workshop date: 20 September 2005
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
- Zoran Milosevic (DSTC, Australia)
- Guido Governatori (Queensland University, Australia)
- Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA)
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Jishnu Mukherji (Hewlett-Packard, USA)
- Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK)
- Heiko Ludwig (IBM TJ Watson, USA)
- Dave Marvit (Fujitsu Laboratories, USA)
- Gerald Quirchmayr (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Martin Schader (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Boualem Benatallah (UNSW, Australia)
- Peter Linington (Kent University, UK)
- Babak Sadighi (SICS, Sweden)
- Marlon Dumas (QUT, Australia)
- Ron Lee (Florida International University, USA)
- Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Antonino Rotolo (University of Bologna)
- John Salasin (DARPA, USA)
- Bill McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA)
- Andrew Farrell (Imperial College, London)
- Cuihong Li (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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