ICEIMT 2004: Call for Papers

ICEIMT04: International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technology

Scope The ICEIMT series of conferences 1992, 1997 and 2002 was originally started as a strategic initiative of NIST 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. Pre-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 'new Y2K' 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.

Topics - 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.

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. 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. All papers will be refereed using a blind refereeing process by at least two (typically three) members of the International Programme Committee.

For planning Purposes 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

Conference Format 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.

Exhibition There will be opportunity for commercial and/or research prototype demonstrations during the conference

Proceedings The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in its IFIP Series

Sponsors * International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP WG 5.12 on Enterprise Integration) * CIMOSA Association, Germany * Interop Network of Excellence, Europe * Novator Systems, Canada * University of Toronto, Canada

Conference General Chair & Co-chair Americas Time Zone contact Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada

Chair International Programme Committee & Far East time zone contact Peter Bernus, Griffith University, Australia

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ICEIMT04: International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modelling Technology

http://www.eil.utoronto.ca/ICEIMT04

Toronto, Canada, 9-11 October, 2004

Scope

The ICEIMT series of conferences 1992, 1997 and 2002 was originally started as a strategic
initiative of NIST 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. Pre-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 'new Y2K' 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.

Topics

- 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.

Deadlines

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.

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. All papers will be refereed using a blind refereeing process by at least two (typically

three) members of the International Programme Committee.

For planning Purposes
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

Conference Format
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.

Exhibition
There will be opportunity for commercial and/or research prototype
demonstrations during the conference

Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in its IFIP Series

Sponsors

* International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP WG 5.12 on Enterprise Integration)

* CIMOSA Association, Germany

* Interop Network of Excellence, Europe

* Novator Systems, Canada

* University of Toronto, Canada

Conference General Chair & Co-chair Americas Time Zone contact
Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada

Chair, Local Organizing Committee
Mihai Barbuceanu, Novator, Canada

Chair International Programme Committee & Far East time zone contact

Peter Bernus, Griffith University, Australia

Co-chair European time zone contact

Kurt Kosanke, CIMOSA Association

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Mark S. Fox, PhD, FAAAI
Professor of Industrial Engineering
NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Enterprise Integration
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St. George St., Rm 8114, Toronto ON M5S 3G8 CANADA
tel: 416-978-6823 fax: 416-971-2479
msf@eil.utoronto.ca http://www.eil.utoronto.ca

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