CFP: BSN 2005 - First International Workshop on Business Services Networks

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

First International Workshop
on Business Services Networks (BSN 2005)

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http://elab.njit.edu/bsn.html

 

Held in conjunction with
IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service
(EEE-05)

29 March, 2005 - Hong Kong

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05

 

 

Sponsored by:

 

Management
 Development Center

Faculty of Business and
Information Technology 

University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

 

e-Business Laboratory (eLab)

School
 of Management

New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), USA

 

 

Abstract:

 

Business Services Networks
(BSN's) are one of the most promising approaches to implement the Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA). They function as inter-enterprise e-Markets where
software components can be delivered and consumed based on Utility Computing,
On Demand, or Pay-Per-Use business models. A typical BSN consists of networked
grid computing infrastructures where Web Services can be securely published,
reused, and invoked using the Business Process Execution Language for Web
Services (BPEL). They extend the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) of each market
participant by adding an e-Service Commerce layer, which provides
industrial-strength transaction management and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
For software vendors, BSN's represent a fast track to convert their existing
applications to the SOA. For business adopters, these networks provide rich
repositories of trusted software components, application services, and business
processes. Overall, all parties to a BSN can leverage their IT assets in
infinite ways, and generate new streams of revenues and cost savings that would
not be possible without such an e-Market.

 

 

Scope:

 

We invite papers that
address both business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives,
including BSN operators, software vendors, business adopters, developers, and
end-users. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

1. BSN Operators:

 

1.a. Business Models and
Architectures

1.b. Spin-Offs from
Outsourcing Providers

1.c. Mobile
Operators and Grid Services

1.d. Industry-Specific B2B
Integration Alliances

1.e. Inter-BSN Alliances and
Interoperability

 

2. Software Vendors:

 

2.a. Market Value for
Software Vendors

2.b. SOA-Enablement of
Software Vendors

2.c. Pricing and Marketing
On Demand Software

2.d. Service Level
Agreements (SLA)

2.e. Software Vendors from
Developing Countries

 

3. Business Adopters:

 

3.a. Comparing IT Sourcing
Models (BSN, ASP, etc.)

3.b. International
Provisioning and Adoption Barriers

3.c. Real-Time Transaction
Monitoring

3.d. Quality of Service
(QoS)

3.e. Accounting Systems for
Utility Computing

 

4. Developers:

 

4.a. SOA Development Methods

4.b. Visual and Model-Driven
Development Environments

4.c. Composite Processes
with Messages, Documents, and Services

4.d. ebSOA and Business
Patterns

4.e. Universal Business
Language (UBL)

 

5. End-Users:

 

5.a. User-Driven Business
Process Composition

5.b. Automated Discovery and
Composition

5.c. User Specialization and
Automated Coordination

5.d. Semantic Web and Domain
Specialization

5.e. Security, Privacy, and
Trust

 

 

Keynote Speaker:

 

To be announced.

 

 

Paper Submission:

 

Please, limit your paper to
8 pages, following the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author
Guidelines: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

 

We accept only electronic
submission in PDF format through our review system (sorry, no email attachments
will be accepted): http://elab.njit.edu/bsn.

 

For any question regarding
to this workshop, please feel free to contact workshop chairs directly.

 

 

Journal Publications:

 

The enhanced version of the
selected papers published in the BSN 2005 will be invited for publication in:

 

* A special issue on
"Business Services Networks" in the International Journal of Cases on
Electronic Commerce (IJCEC), Information Resources Management Association
(IRMA), USA.
It is expected this special issue will be published in October-December 2005.
ISSN: Pending (print) ISSN: Pending (online)
http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4285 

 

* A special issue on
"Web Services, Business Processes, and Services Science" in the
International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS), Inderscience
Publishers, USA.
It is expected this special issue will be published in 2006. ISSN (Online):
1741-1114 - ISSN (Paper): 1741-1106 https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47

 

 

Deadlines:

 

December 25, 2004       Abstract
Submission Due (Optional)

January 24, 2005        Full
Paper Submission Due

February 14, 2005       Paper
Acceptance Notice Sent to Authors

March 1, 2005           Camera-Ready
Papers Due

March 29, 2005          Workshop

 

 

Workshop Chairs:

 

Dr. Stephane
 Gagnon

School
 of Management

New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

E-mail: 

 

Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung

Faculty of Business and
Information Technology

University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

E-mail:


 

 

Steering Program Committee:

 

Prof. Terry Wu

Management
 Development Center

Faculty of Business and
Information Technology

University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

 

Prof. Anup Kumar

CECS Department

University of Louisville,
 USA

 

Prof. Elena Ferrari

Dipartimento di Scienze
della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione

University
of Insubria at Como, Italy

 

Prof. Barbara Carminati

Dipartimento di Scienze
della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione

University
of Insubria at Como, Italy

 

Dr. Kerry Taylor

ICT Research Centre

Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia

 

Dr. Casey K. Fung

Mathematics and Computing
Technology

Boeing Phantom Works, USA

 

Dr. Vladimir Tosic

Department of Computer
Science

The University of Western Ontario, Canada

 

Prof. Aoying Zhou

Department of Computer
Science and Engineering

Fudan University,
 China

 

Prof. Jia Zhang

Department of Computer
Science

Northern Illinois University, USA

 

Prof. Hannes Werthner

Honorary President, IFITT

University of Innsbruck
& EC3 Vienna, Austria

 

Dr. Ravi Bapna

Department of Operations and
Information Management 

University of Connecticut,
 USA

 

Dr. Morad Benyoucef

School
 of Management

University of Ottawa,
 Canada

 

Dr. Oleg Gusikhin

Supply Chain Management
Research

Ford Research & Advanced
Engineering, USA

 

 

Supporting Organizations:

 

e-Centre for Infonomics,
School of Computing and Technology, University
  of East London, UK

 

 

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Stephane Gagnon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School of Management

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Central Avenue Building,
3rd Floor

Newark, NJ
 07102-1982

 

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Fax: 973-596-3074

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