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Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues
in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2008)

In conjunction with the 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology
(CEC'08) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'08)
July 21, 2008, Crystal City, Washington, D.C., USA

http://www.cebt.re.kr/DEECS2008/

++ Deadline for submission: May 5, 2008 ++
++ Full papers, position papers, posters, and demos invited ++
++ IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings ++
++ Proceedings will be included in the IEEE Digital Library ++
++ More information at http://www.cebt.re.kr/DEECS2008/ ++

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Workshop Theme
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As part of their e-business activities, enterprises create, share,
recombine, and process an ever increasing amount of data and documents
that range from simple transactional data to complex business process
definitions.
In many respective processes, multiple spheres overlap, e.g.
(1) inter- with intra-organizational data sources in collaborative
processes,
(2) master data with transactional data,
(3) regular data with behavioral aspects of processes, or
(4) facts with normative assertions.
Since business entities are members of multiple value chains, same as
data sources are often used in multiple contexts and processes, there
are often conflicting requirements on the representation of such data.

All this in combination makes e-business data engineering a very
challenging task, already at the level of a single company but even more
in value chains. Also, respective modeling choices may have long-lasting
and far reaching impact, and affect
(1) operational efficiency,
(2) business process agility,
(3) the range of analytical tasks for decision support, and
(4) strategic options.
Eventually, those choices determine the current and future degree of
automation in content and process integration.

While e-business standards in general help, standardization alone does
not solve the problem. This is because yielding a consensual
representation takes time, consumes resources, and constrains an
entity’s ability to capture individual details. Moreover, the cost of
implementing and enforcing the standards is sometimes prohibitive for
small businesses. Proprietary representations, on the other hand, hamper
interoperability, and complicate B2B integration.
In service-oriented architectures (SOAs), this complexity is further
increased by the behavioral dimension of e-business interactions, e.g.
services choreography and orchestration.

This workshop aims at providing a venue for discussion and the exchange
of ideas on data and knowledge engineering issues in the dynamic
environment of e-business, enterprise computing, and business services
and transformation.

Topics
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In particular, we are inviting full and short papers, posters, and
hands-on demonstrations on the following topics:

- Business data integration
- Business data management
- Business data privacy and security
- Business decision support
- Business intelligence
- Business modeling and analysis
- Business process integration
- Business process management
- Business process monitoring
- Business process intelligence
- Business transformation outsourcing
- Case studies and applications
- Corporate Knowledge Management
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Decision Support Systems
- E-commerce content
- E-commerce standards
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise architecture
- E-procurement and sourcing
- Folksonomies and Collaborative Tagging in business applications
- Human Resources Management
- Legal applications
- Ontologies and use of Semantic Web technology
- Product catalog management
- Product lifecycle management
- Product specification standardization
- Semantic Business Process Management
- Semantics-supported Business Intelligence on product data
- Semantic Web Services
- Sensors and actuators
- Service-oriented architectures (SOAs)
- Solution design and delivery
- Specification and monitoring of Service-Level Agreements
- Supply Chain Management
- Tools tailored to applications in these areas
- Ubiquitous / context-aware services
- Business value and cost modeling and analysis
- Virtual enterprises
- Web services


Paper Submission and Publication
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We are inviting the submission of
· full papers (up to 8 pages),
· position papers (up to 5 pages),
· posters (2-page extended abstracts or final posters), and
· hands-on demonstrations (2-page descriptions of the demo)
describing original research on the listed or related topics.

Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author
Guidelines to prepare your papers using the 8.5'' x 11'', two-column
format.

Submissions must be in the form of PDF documents using our conference
submission system, which will be available at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deecs2008

shortly.

At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the
work. Attendance of the workshop requires registration to the main
CEC/EEE 2008 conference.

Full papers will be published in the regular conference proceedings by
the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be included in the IEEE Digital
Library.

Selected papers will be invited for fast-track review of the
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS,
ISI-indexed).

Review Process
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Each paper will typically be reviewed by three members of the Program
Committee. Reviewers will score submissions according to their
contribution, originality/novelty, technical depth/merit, and quality of
presentation. For short position papers, clarity of exposition and the
degree of innovation will be sufficient, while for full papers, a clear
technical contribution is expected.

Important Dates
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May 5, 2008: Submissions due
May 19, 2008: Notification of acceptance
May 26, 2008: Camera-ready versions due
July 21, 2008: Workshop (tentative)

Organizing Committee
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* General Chairs

Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Center, USA

* Program Chairs
Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Mehmet Sayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

* Proceedings and Web Chair
Junho Shim, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea

Program Committee (Tentative)
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(Invitations ongoing; confirmation partly pending)

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University, Poland
Jorge Cardoso, SAP Research, Germany
Willy Chen, University of Mannheim
Pieter De Leenheer, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Vivian Ding, IBM Research, China
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria
Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joerg Leukel, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Tokuro Matsuo, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Jan Mendling, Queensland University, Australia
Andreas Karcher, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Paavo Kotinurmi, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Daniel Oberle, SAP Research, Germany
Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Chun Hua Tian, IBM Research, China
Tammo van Lessen, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany
Wolfgang Wilkes, University of Hagen, Germany


Contact
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Martin Hepp
E-Business and Web Science Research Group
Chair of General Management and E-Business
Bundeswehr University Munich
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany

Phone: +49-89-6004-4217
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Web: http://www.heppnetz.de