ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference is the primary annual event bringing together academics and practitioners to address issues related to enterprise architecture and distributed object computing. It embraces the rapidly maturing distributed object and component technologies for enterprise computing, such as J2EE, .NET and emerging new standards and paradigms, such as Web Services and event-driven computing, as a basis for alignment of business and IT. EDOC 2004 is the latest in the successful series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading researchers and industry experts to discuss problems, solutions, and experiences in meeting current and future enterprise distributed computing needs. This year the conference will be improved by including workshops and an industrial experience track.
SCOPE
Recent advances in Internet-based information and communication technology (ICT) have enabled enterprises to offer dramatically improved capabilities including more effective enterprise architectures, more efficient business processes, the ability to engage in new much more dynamic forms of global co-operation, and greatly improved interoperability. As old enterprise systems evolve to embrace these capabilities, issues and challenges arise both in theory and practice. In fact, the appearance of networked enterprises, in which organizations work together for mutual benefit, gives rise to a change in the very nature of enterprise computing. Traditionally, enterprise computing has dealt with the organizational, technical and engineering challenges involved in introducing or integrating distributed business information systems within one organization. Today, enterprise computing has to deal with application integration across company boundaries and support inter-organizational business processes, collaboration, and transactions, while simultaneously satisfying the flexibility and security requirements of each business partner. Networked enterprises in all scales, from local to global, requires innovative research ideas and practical principles in enterprise distributed computing to make them truly lean, efficient, and global.
EDOC 2004 will address new developments in distributed enterprise computing to support networked enterprises and dynamic collaborative business processes. It will present innovations in distributed object and component technology, e.g., J2EE, .NET, and Web Services, to address the challenges of integration, flexibility, scalability, reliability, security, and quality of services in enterprise systems.
New approaches to modeling and design of enterprise systems, such as OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the ODP Enterprise Language, policy specification and business process modeling, ensure alignment of system architectures with business goals, policies and processes. Emerging standards, such as MDA, ebXML, and Web Services, are expected to result in improved tool support and to raise the levels of technical and semantic inter-operability. Together these developments bring enterprise distributed object computing closer to its ultimate goals of effortless integration, seamless inter-operation, and alignment with the business processes it supports.
TOPICS
The program committee seeks high quality papers describing new research results, experience reports and case studies related to all aspects of distributed enterprise computing. We particularly solicit contributions that address the challenges of effortless integration, seamless inter-operation and alignment with business goals, policies and processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Enterprise architecture, modeling and meta-modeling (methods, tools and techniques)
· Model driven design and architectural alignment
· (Inter-)enterprise integration and collaboration process and workflow support
· Business process and workflow support
· Service-oriented architecture and design
· Contract and policy based management (automated negotiation, enactment, monitoring and enforcement)
· Use and development of enterprise and integration standards (ODP Enterprise Language, OMG's MDA, ebXML, UML 2.0, EDOC profile for UML, W3C Web Services, etc.)
· Utility or service-based enterprise computing (specification, discovery, use, composition)
· Use and enhancement of middleware platforms, such as J2EE and .NET, and their interoperability
· Security of web-based applications
· Enterprise applications of Web Services and GRID-based computing
· Ontologies and Semantic Web support for enterprise distributed object computing
· Enterprise architectures for e-business, e-commerce, and e-government
· Enterprise frameworks for specific domains (e.g., finance, telecom, aerospace)
· Practical experiences with enterprise distributed object computing
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
EDOC will accept two types of paper submissions: research papers and experience reports. Research papers should describe original research results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere, and will be evaluated for scientific or technical contribution, originality, appropriateness and significance. Accepted research papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages in IEEE format. Experience reports should describe new insights gained from case studies or the application of EDOC technology in practice, and will be evaluated on their appropriateness, significance and clarity of expression. Accepted experience reports will be published electronically on CD-ROM and on the conference web site. Experience reports should contain at least 2,000 words and must not exceed 5,000 words. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the international program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of experience reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF (preferred) or PostScript format via the electronic submission system via the EDOC ConfMan system.
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Proposals are invited for workshops to be held on the 20th and 21st of September 2004. Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics enterprise distributed object computing in a small and interactive atmosphere. Workshops may concentrate in-depth on research topics, or may also be devoted to application issues. Proposals should include the workshop title, a brief (200 word) biography for each organizer and a summary of the workshop contents (approximately 1-2 pages, i.e., 500-1000 words).
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