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The end of the road
by Jon MacLaren 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

To all of us who are left, I've recently heard that the use case document has been approved for publication as a GGF Informational Document. No one has stepped forward to take the reigns of the group in this last six months of "revival", and so I'm going to go ahead and ask that our Area Directors (now John Tollefsrud and Hiro Kishimoto) finalise the group and dispatch it off to that Great Standardisation Body in the The Sky. Personally, I've also reached an end to my GGF attendance. I have various reasons, but this is not the venue for that discussion. I may continue to read a couple of the lists, but really, I'm done - it's time for me to beat my retreat. So, fare thee well, and maybe I'll run into you at HPDC or SC. So long, Jon.

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Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper submission: February 1, 2006 Paper notification: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2006 Workshop: June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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CFP: Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06) "Integration For Everyone" Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, May 22-24, 2006 http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com http://www.integrationconsortium.org ********************************************************************** --- OVERVIEW --- The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association of IT professionals focused on application, information, process, service, and system integration technologies. The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year, and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000 corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking. --- THEME --- For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I- BOK) As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts, and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions. --- TOPICS --- Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware. Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress, best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints. We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at: http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf Part A - Business Perspective 1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers 2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers Part B - Application Requirements 3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions 4. User-Centric Integration Solutions Part C - Development Capabilities 5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function 6. Integration Development Methods and Standards 7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices Part D - Technologies and Standards 8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture 9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards 10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure --- IMPORTANT DATES --- * Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006 * Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006 * Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006 * Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006 * Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006 * Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006 --- SUBMISSION --- * Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm * Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc * Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit --- CO-CHAIRS --- John Schmidt President, Integration Consortium Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America Peter Anadranistakis Board of Directors Member, Integration Consortium Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems Dr. Stephane Gagnon VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology --- CONTACT --- Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com

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