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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
Part C: Applications & Reviews

Special Issue on
Enterprise Services Computing and Industrial Applications

With recent advances in services technologies and infrastructure, there are increasing demands for ubiquitous access to networked services for supporting enterprise business processes. These services, generally known as enterprise services, extend support from Web browsers on personal computers to handheld devices, such as PDAs and IP telephony systems, over a proprietary network or the Internet. In principle, an enterprise service refers to an autonomous unit of application that provides either some e-business functionality or information to accomplish enterprise purposes at anytime and anywhere through wireless and Web 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. “Services Computing” encompasses a new class of ground breaking technology suite such as Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, utility/grid computing, autonomic computing, as well as its business and scientific applications. The discipline of Services Computing covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. In particular, this special issue focuses on original application- and industry-oriented research and technical papers on “Enterprise Services Computing.” Suggested interested topics include, but are not limited to:

Enterprise computing - support for business processes

Modeling for enterprise computing, integration and management, and relating business models to system specifications

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 requirements engineering and modeling

Enterprise architecture design and modeling

Design and modeling 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

Trust, security, privacy and QoS 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

Ontologies and Semantic Web support

Middleware standards and systems, such as CORBA, WS, J2EE and .NET

Modeling and description languages, such as XML, RDF, OWL and UML

Enterprise computing tools and tool chains

Organization and principles of software factories

Guest Editors:

Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung
Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca

Program Chair of EDOC 2006
TBA

Dr. Zoran Milosevic
CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC)
University of Queensland, Australia
E-mail: zoran@dstc.edu.au

Schedule for Publication (tentative):

Paper submission: August 15, 2006
Notification: December 15, 2006
Submission of revision: February 15, 2007
Final notification: March 15, 2007
Planned publication: End of 2007

Submission Details:

For detailed submission information, please refer to:
http://www.ieee-smc.org/webpages/publications/submissioninfoC.htm

Electronic Submission for the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C:
http://smcc-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/

The authors should put in the “Author Comments Section” to Editor-in-Chief the following sentence: “This manuscript is submitted for the Special Issue on Enterprise Services Computing and Industrial Applications (editors: Patrick Hung, Zoran Milosevic)”.