Call
for Papers
HICSS
37 - M I N I T R A C K
Web
Services and Workflow: Choreography,
Coordination, Composition
Internet and
the Digital Economy Track of
the Thirty-seventh Annual
Hawaii
International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS 2004)
Overview
The recent arrival of web service
choreography standards, which
apply workflow management concepts
to the coordination of inter-organizational
web services expands the scope
of the workflow minitrack at
HICSS to explicitly include
the coordination and choreography
of web services. The power of
web services is best realized
when they are composed. The
composition of web services
brings in problems related to
the semantics of the linked
services.
In its seventh year at HICSS,
the scope of the workflow minitrack
is extended in this direction
to properly reflect the significance
of these recent developments
on the field.
Abstract
The use of technology for process
coordination, composition and
automation promises significant
efficiency gains for the enterprises
and industries through the automated
coordination of activities,
participants, and applications.
The use of web services in conjunction
with workflow technology in
cross-organizational scenarios,
such as B2B-transactions, is
receiving more and more attention
in both industry and academia.
On the business side, the standardization
of XML-based data exchange protocols
enables companies to integrate
their processes independent
of the underlying technology.
On the technical side, the use
of event-based facilities, such
as JMS, and software architecture
frameworks, such as .net or
J2EE, enables designers of these
applications to integrate both
legacy systems and internet
technology with relative ease.
The minitrack seeks contributions
that analyze the use of workflow
and web service technology for
process automation from both
a managerial as well as a technical
perspective.
Topics
Appropriate topics for the
minitrack include, but are not
limited to the following:
- Web service coordination
and choreography.
- Case studies and empirical
research on implementation
issues and/or the effectiveness
of web services in practice.
- Design theory for intra-
and inter-organizational process
automation technology.
- Development and comparison
of alternative process automation
system architectures.
- Process and/or service composition
and their formal representations.
- Standardization of web service
and workflow technology.
- Integration of workflow
management systems with other
technologies such as management
information systems, groupware,
electronic commerce, customer
relationship management systems
etc.
- Design of electronic commerce
application based on web service
and/or workflow technology.
- Business process reengineering
issues concerning the evolvement
of workflow systems.
- Knowledge management (or
organizational memory) in
the context of process automation,
especially in cross-organizational
contexts.
- Workflow modeling methodologies
and languages.
- Economic models or frameworks
for the study of process automation
systems in an intra- or inter-organizational
context.
Co-Chairs
Michael zur Muehlen (primary
contact)
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on the Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
USA
Phone 201.216.8293
Fax 201.216.5385
mzurmuehlen@stevens.edu
Jeffrey V. Nickerson
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on the Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
USA
Phone 201.216.8293
Fax 201.216.5385
jnickerson@stevens.edu
Mathias Weske
Hasso Plattner Institute for
Software Systems Engineering
Potsdam University
Prof. Dr.-Helmert-Strasse 2-3
14482 Potsdam
Germany
Phone +49-331-5509-191 (-180
office),
Fax +49-331-5509-189
mathias.weske@hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Important Deadlines
- March 31, 2003 Abstracts
submitted for guidance and
indication of appropriate
content.
- June 1, 2003 Full papers
submitted to Minitrack Chairs.
Contact minitrack chairs for
submission instructions.
- August 31, 2003 Notice of
accepted papers sent to Authors.
- October 1, 2003 Accepted
manuscripts sent electronically
to the publisher. Authors
must be registered for the
conference by this date.
Instructions for
Paper Submission
1. Contact the Minitrack Chair
in advance for specific submission
instructions.
Otherwise, submit an electronic
version of the full paper, consisting
of no more than 25 double- spaced
pages, including diagrams, directly
to the appropriate Minitrack
Chair. (NOTE: The final paper
must be NO MORE THAN 10 pages,
double-column, single spaced.)
2. Do not submit the manuscript
to more than one Minitrack Chair.
Papers should contain original
material and not be previously
published, or currently submitted
for consideration elsewhere.
3. Each paper must have a title
page to include title of the
paper, full name of all authors,
and complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s),
and e-mail address(es).
4. The first page of the manuscript
should include only the title
and a 300-word abstract of the
paper.
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