The 12th IEEE International

EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008)

 

The Enterprise Computing Conference

15-19 September 2008, Munich, Germany

Conference Themes and Topics

The EDOC conference seeks high-quality contributions addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved in building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. Suggested areas include, but are not limited to --

  • Enterprise Application Architecture and Methodology
    • Model based approaches to enterprise applications
      • Model driven architectures (MDA) and model driven SW development
      • Recent UML based approaches
      • Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
      • Reference architecture based approaches
      • Standards for Enterprise Application Architecture
      • Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues
      • Organization and principles of software factories
    • Service oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise service architectures (ESA)
      • Evolution of service engineering specifications
      • Semantics based service engineering
      • Enterprise service bus approaches
      • Event driven Architectures
    • Service oriented architecture governance
      • Service policies and contract definitions and enforcement
      • Security policy definition and description languages
      • Security policy interoperability
    • Business process management (BPM)
      • Business Process Models and Metamodels
      • Business Process Monitoring and Intelligence
      • Dynamically configurable BPs
      • People integration in BPM Systems
      • Cross-organizational business processes
    • Business rules
      • Business rules languages and inference systems
      • Business rules components
      • Rule driven business process engines
  • Enterprise Applications Implementation and Management
    • Enterprise applications deployment and governance
      • Maturity models for enterprise applications
      • Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement
      • Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS)
      • Total cost of ownership (TCO) for enterprise scale solutions
      • Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems
      • Information assurance
      • Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing
    • State of the art in distributed enterprise applications
      • Evolution of middleware standards, such as Java EE or .NET
      • Application server solution design and deployment
      • Industry specific solutions, e.g. for aerospace, automotive, finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications
      • Research and public sector collaboration, e.g. in
        • e-health
        • e-government
        • e-science
      • Inter-enterprise collaboration and its architecture
  • Enterprise Computing Infrastructures
    • Autonomic computing and self managing platforms
      • Self managing and self optimizing enterprise platforms
      • Autonomic computing approaches and solutions
    • Grid computing approaches
      • Integration of converging communications technologies
      • Integration of embedded and mobile systems
      • Mobile networks and ambient intelligence
    • Identity management and distributed access control
      • Distributed and federated access control
      • Network public key infrastructures
      • Service provisioning
      • Security technology interoperability
      • Inference mechanisms for policy enforcement
    • Social information and innovation networks
      • SW support for social networks
      • Social network building and supporting infrastructures
      • Social network analytical approaches
    • Information integration and interoperability
      • Business object model methodologies and approaches
      • Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
      • Master data management for the real-time enterprise (RTE)