Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. Call for Papers =============== Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/ Special Issue on Enterprise Services Computing: Evolution and Challenges http://www.hrl.uoit.ca/~edoc2006ISF With recent advances in services computing technologies and infrastructure, there are increasing demands for ubiquitous access to networked services for supporting enterprise business processes more efficiently and effectively. These services, generally known as enterprise services, extend support from Web browsers and application interfaces on personal computers to handheld devices, such as cell phones, PDAs and even IP telephony systems, over a proprietary network or the Internet. An enterprise service refers to an application component that provides either some e-business functionality or information to accomplish enterprise purposes at anytime and anywhere through Web and wireless technologies. With the advent of e-business and supply chain management concepts, an increasing demand for interoperable applications exists, which allow the real-time exchange of data across enterprise borders, across different applications and across different IT-platforms. “Enterprise Computing” encompasses a new class of ground breaking technologies such as Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, middleware support like utility/grid/peer-to-peer/autonomic-computing, as well as its business and scientific applications. Enterprise computing currently shapes the processes of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment, monitoring and management. In particular, Web services are network-based application components with services oriented architecture using standard interface description languages and uniform communication protocols. Web services let individuals and organizations do business over the Internet using standardized protocols to facilitate application-to-application interaction. Due to the importance of the field, standardization organizations such as WSI, W3C, OASIS and Liberty Alliance are actively developing standards for Web services. Pervasive computing and infrastructure developments increase the need for sharing and coordinating the use of Web services for different business processes in a loosely coupled execution environment. A business process contains a set of activities which represent both business tasks and interactions between Web services. Business processes have played an important role in enabling business application integration and collaboration across multiple organizations nowadays. Suggested areas of this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Enterprise computing - support for business processes * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related protocols such as BPEL, WSLA, WSDL and SOAP. * Modelling for enterprise computing, integration and management, and relating business models to system specifications * Intra- or inter- enterprise for business-to-business control * Management-level security, privacy and trust considerations and objectives * Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in enterprise computing * Enterprise computing concepts for specific domains, including - Electronic and mobile commerce - Real-time applications for the extended enterprise, e.g. business activity monitoring - Vertical domains such as finance, telecommunications, automotive, aerospace, command & control and healthcare * Enterprise computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) * Enterprise requirements engineering and modelling * Enterprise architecture design and modelling * Design and modelling paradigms for enterprise computing, including - Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and other model-driven approaches - Service- and component-oriented development and architecture - Collaborative development and cooperative engineering * IT aspects of inter-enterprise collaboration and virtual enterprises * Integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) issues in enterprise computing * Quality-assurance of enterprise computing systems * Evolution and management of enterprise computing systems * Integration of sensing and tracking technologies in enterprise systems * Interoperability models, platforms, and techniques * Realization technologies for enterprise computing, including - Ontology and Semantic Web support - Middleware standards and systems, such as CORBA, WS, J2EE and .NET - Modelling and description languages, such as XML, RDF, OWL and UML * Enterprise computing tools and tool chains * Human and social organizational settings of enterprise computing * Organization and principles of software factories * Commercialization of enterprise computing technologies * Case studies Guest Editors: Donald W. Sparrow (MITRE, USA) E-mail: dsparrow@mitre.org Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) E-mail: itqli@cityu.edu.hk Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca Schedule for Publication: Paper submission: December 1, 2006 Notification: January 19, 2007 Submission of revision: February 16, 2007 (camera ready version) Planned publication: Mid of 2007 Submission Details: For detailed submission information, please refer to "Editorial Policies" and then on "Submissions" at: http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/ Every submission MUST go through the electronic submission system (available soon) at: http://www.hrl.uoit.ca/~edoc2006ISF * Please send e-mail to the guest editors for any enquires.