There have been no plans or decisions made yet concerning a second ICEIMT. Our sense is that there is support for the idea and a desire to continue the effort to "integrate the integrators". We did agree at the first ICEIMT that the next ICEIMT should take place in Europe on something approaching a semi-annual schedule (i.e., latter part of 1994). We also agreed that EI is inherently multi-disciplinary; bringing together knowledge and activities across a wide spectrum of people and organizations.
The first ICEIMT was by invitation-only and included a series of 4 focused workshops, conference, 4 SIGs and publications. It established some important abstract and concrete parameters for effectively making collaborative progress in the area of EI. A key contribution was characterization of the linkages between many of the components that make up an enterprise: people, metrics, organizations, applications, methodologies, environments and system platforms-- which was labelled the "Integration Domain". There are already examples of this body of ICEIMT work being referenced and used by companies and interenterprise standards and project activities. In some cases, there were no people in these examples that participated in the ICEIMT but are proceeding solely from the proceedings and second-hand information.
The second ICEIMT (as currently envisioned) would have an open call for papers for the conference and proceedings, and a request for positions for the adjunct workshops. We need to start organizing now to make 1994. The first steps are to figure out the process and the high-level technical objectives/agenda.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: We would like to get as many professional societies or standards organizations to affiliate with ICEIMT94 as reasonably possible. The organization would sponsor, advertise, participate in the event, and have an identified means for incorporating the results of the ICEIMT back into its work and membership.
If you can liason to one or more organizations please reply to me by electronic mail. Please let us know how your organization structures its event affiliations. If you can't personally coordinate the liason with an organization but would like to recommend groups and people to contact let me know that too.
Cheers,
Bruce K. Speyer MCC Enterprise Integration Program EMail: speyer@mcc.com 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Voice: 512/338-3668 Austin, TX. 78759-6509 Fax: 512/338-3897