ICEIMT is organized again, this time in Toronto in October 2004.
Please find enclosed the Call For Papers. For further information please visit: http://www.eil.utoronto.ca/ICEIMT04
We hope to receive many excellent papers. Papers will be peer reviewed and will appear in the pre-conference proceedings to be published by Kluwer Academic Press.
Please consider submitting your work to this unique event!
Peter Bernus Chair IPC, ICEIMT2004
Associate Professor Peter Bernus, Enterprise Integration Group, School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Griffith University, Nathan (Brisbane) Queensland 4111 Australia, tel+61-7-3875 5039 fax+61-7-3875 5051 Email: P.Bernus@bigpond.com _____
2004 International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technology (ICEIMT'04)
9-11 October 2004 University of Toronto, Canada
Call for Papers
The ICEIMT series of conferences 1992, 1997 and 2002 was originally started as a strategic initiative of the United States and the European Union to review the state of the art in Enterprise Integration and to make recommendations to industry and research, creating roadmaps for EI research and product development. Pro-conference workshops had been organised with internationally recognised experts and reports of these workshops were presented at the conference.
Enterprise Integration (EI) has grown in the past ten years at a pace where there is an obvious need for a more frequent forum where these strategic discussions can be continued bringing together leading thinkers of industry, defence and research.
The IFIP Working Group 5.12 on Enterprise Integration (a majority of members being organisers of past ICEIMT conferences and invited experts to past workshops) has taken the responsibility to sponsor this more frequent reincarnation of ICEIMT. The INTEROP European Network of Excellence has been invited to present the results of their interoperability workshop series at the conference. As EI is an interdisciplinary field, the IPC is includes important figures from industrial engineering and management, supply chain management, software engineering, systems engineering, artificial intelligence and computer science, CALS, and most importantly representatives of tool developers. Members also include strategic leaders of Virtual Enterprise research and ongoing projects on interoperability.
A particular feature of EI and interoperability within that area is the prominent role of international and regional standardisation bodies as well as industry consortia. An important role of ICEIMT04 will be to conduct discussions about the strategic fit between the short and medium term steps that industry needs to take (which enable the development of interoperable products and software systems), and the long term strategic considerations. Without the deep understanding of this issue industry may end up facing a Śnew Y2Ką problem in the years to come.
In the past five years is has become apparent that creating the technical conditions of interoperability must be supported by cultural and socio-economic and cultural conditions. The interoperability of our software tools crucially depends on the motivation of people who create them, their ability to learn as well as to communicate in order to create a mutually accepted common understanding. Thus this conference intends to also investigate interoperability from the point of view of communication between humans.
* Enterprise Modelling (modelling languages, scope and detail of modelling, model development methodologies) * Enterprise Reference Models (modularity, sharability, quality, scalability) * Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (practice and theory), role of standardisation, relation to systems and engineering and software engineering * Interoperability present and future trends & standardisation * Common ontologies (level of definition logic, XML, etc , competency questions, evolvability, standardisation) * Enterprise Modelling Tools (functionality, interoperability, methodology support) * Hot spots of interoperability * New theories and techniques, interdisciplinary approaches * Human understanding and communication as a condition of interoperability. Suitable social structures that create the motivation and the opportunity to achieve common understanding and consensus.
Paper submission deadline: 15 May, 2004 Referees' reports to authors: 19 June, 2004 Deadline for camera ready manuscripts: 2 July, 2004 Proposals for pre-conference tutorials and expressions of interest for exhibition: 31 March, 2004 Submission procedure: Please send your paper electronically as a Word file to iceimt2004@cit.gu.edu.au
The Local Organising Committee and the IPC kindly asks you to email your expression of interest to submit a paper to ICEIMT2004. Please email a preliminary title to iceimt2004@cit.gu.edu.au
Some papers will be presented in conference sessions and some may be selected for poster presentation according to the nature of the paper. The quality criteria of both types of presentations are the same.
There will be opportunity for commercial and/or research prototype demonstrations during the conference.
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in its IFIP Series.
Papers should be maximum 10 pages in length (a full page of text in the Kluwer format is approx 500 words). A typical paper might be for example 3750 words long (including references) + plus figures. In rare cases the IPC may approve the use of excess pages. Click here <http://www.eil.utoronto.ca/ICEIMT04/ICEIMT-sample-article.doc> for the paper template in MS Word.
All papers will be refereed using a blind refereeing process by at least two (typically three) members of the International Programme Committee. * International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP WG 5.12 on Enterprise Integration) [under approval] * CIMOSA Association, Germany * National Institute of Standards, USA (proposed) * Interop Network of Excellence, Europe * Novator Systems, Canada * University of Toronto, Canada
Updated: 18 February 2004
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