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DIGIBIZ 2009 Workshop Program

W1 Workshop on Technological trends in Enterprise Systems for SMEs and large enterprises: Heading towards the Future Internet

Organizers

Jesus E. Gabaldon, Chief Scientific Officer at Techideas, Barcelona, Spain
Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Objectives

One of the main characteristics of structured economical communities as compared to unstructured ones is their ability to communicate with other entities, as well as to receive accurate information from the socioeconomic environment. Both things may help anticipate business opportunities and negative conditions thus providing opportunities of growth and survival.

In the case of large enterprises, the main factor which determines the enterprise competitiveness is their ability to seamlessly interoperate with others. Enterprise Interoperability has therefore become an important area of research in Europe to ensure a growth of European enterprises.

In the case of small-medium enterprises (SMEs), the main factor is the creation of proper Digital Ecosystems with adequate conditions to broaden the access of SMEs to the present technological infrastructures. Several projects funded by the EC are making significant progress in the development of Digital Ecosystems technologies by broadening access for SMEs in a wide spectrum of countries, from the third to the first world, by giving them access to complex technological communication tools, and providing distributed collaborative applications.

In both cases, it has become increasingly important the ability of enterprises to manage innovation and the creation of ecosystems to cater for short-term, short notice collaboration. Enterprises of the future will be nodes in innovation ecosystems requiring flexible, spontaneous collaboration activities. Both research on Enterprise Interoperability and Digital Ecosystems aim to tackle this from different perspectives.

Topics

This workshop aims to foster discussion related to current trends on Enterprise Interoperability and Digital Ecosystems. We invite authors to submit papers or propose presentations with a focus on technological solutions, models and approaches or papers and presentations describing the experiences on the application of these technologies in real scenarios.

EU-funded projects in the areas of Enterprise Interoperability and Digital Ecosystems are also invited to share their results or project vision.

Track 1: Technological Trends in Enterprise Interoperability

Integrated solutions for inter-enterprise interoperability
Tools and technologies for intra-enterprise collaboration
Architectures and platforms large-scale networks, including massively distributed networked devices.

Track 2: Technological Trends in Digital Ecosystems

Architectures and tools to support the spontaneous evolution of business relationships.
Tools supporting the SME’s in the discovery of business opportunities.
Tools and architectural solutions to support business agreements.
Architectures and tools to support the collaboration between SMEs, including technologies supporting the (semantic) composition of processes, services and applications.

Track 3: How SME’s can benefit from the Digital Ecosystem’s philosophy? Experiences in the use of Digital Ecosystems

Works showing the results of the application of Digital Ecosystem technologies, including its impact from a social and/or economical perspective.

Format of submissions

There are two ways to actively participate in the workshop:

To submit a paper describing the work for its publication in the DIGIBIZ 2009 proceedings and make a short presentation of the work at the workshop. Both short (4 page) and long (8 page) papers will be accepted. The papers should be in Springer LNICST format.
To make a short presentation at the workshop without associated paper.

In both cases, in order to ease the organisation of the sessions, a short abstract with a title, authors and half-page description of the work that you plan to present should be submitted before May 5th.

Proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST - LNICST.

Important Dates

Short abstract submission: May 5th, 2009
Workshop Paper submission: May 13th, 2009
Workshop Papers acceptance notification: May 21st, 2009
Papers Camera-ready version: May 31st, 2009

Submission Instructions

Short abstracts (1 page max) for both papers and slide presentations should be sent directly by email to Javier Vazquez-Salceda (jvazquez-at-lsi.upc.edu) before May 5, 2009.

To submit a workshop paper, please follow the Submission Instructions page, selecting 'DigiBiz 2009 Workshop 1'.