INCOM 2012 - 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

23-25 May 2012, Bucharest, Romania

INVITED SESSION ON  Sustainability of Interoperability in Enterprise Integration and Networking (Code timWG)

Sponsored by
IFAC TC 5.3 “Enterprise Integration and Networking”
INTEROP VLab, International Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability
UNITE, Upgrading ICT excellence by strengthening cooperation between researchers

Organisers
Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ovidiu Noran, Griffith University, Australia
Keith Popplewell, Coventry University
Michele Dassisti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy (m.dassisti@poliba.it)

Keywords
Enterprise Networking, Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Interoperability, Enterprise Architectures, Enterprise Frameworks, Enterprise Reference Models

Scope
Organizations wish to adapt themselves according to the market demands and the  availability of new systems and applications. Adaptation brings complexity, processes, models and semantics change, where heterogeneity of applications and data is present, mostly resulting in the loss of stability of the enterprise interoperable environment through failure of harmonization. These facts introduce the new concept of sustainable interoperability. Sustainable interoperability is a new research dimension into the interoperability of enterprise systems and applications domain, that is looking for novel strategies, methods and tools to maintain and sustain the interoperability of enterprise systems in networked environments in the advent of their dynamics.

Authors are invited to submit original contributions bringing together novel contributions from researchers and practitioners who are exploring the definition and applicability of systems interoperability in enterprise integration and networking, putting focus on strategies, methods and tools to support the sustainability of interoperable ICT systems. Conceptual, theoretical, empirical and technological contributions are sought, addressing the following topics, but not limited to:

• Discovery capabilities: detecting when new enterprise system is added, or updated in the network, driving into harmonisation failure;

• Learning capacity: after detecting harmonization failure a learning process should be triggered to learn more about the changes which occurred and the node adaptation required;

• Adaptability: enabling the adaptation of systems and maintenance process optimization via knowledge representation applied to model management such as dynamic Model Morphisms

• Transient analysis: to understand how a network, as an integrated complex system will suffer during transient period, and how this affects the overall behaviour;

• Notification/Communication: how the network nodes obtain information for the neededadaptations to enable the system and the network to evolve to the new interoperable state.

Prospective authors are invited to contact the organizers by sending them an email NOW with the title of the paper, the authors’ names and affiliation and 10 lines abstract. Papers submissions will be due through the conference submission platform, selecting the session title: ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl, before October 24th, 2011.

Should you need a further extension, please send immediately an email to rg(at)uninova.pt.
Distinguished papers based on their fast-track review and oral presentation will be  selected and published in an extended journal article form as part of a special issue.