[dais-wg] CFP: IJCEC Special Issue on BSNs

[Gagnon, Stephane]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special Issue on Business Services Networks
International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC)
Submission Deadline: March 7, 2005

Guest Editors: Stephane Gagnon and Patrick C. K. Hung
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http://elab.njit.edu/ijcec.html


INTRODUCTION

Business Services Networks (BSN's) are IT infrastructure intermediaries 
where Web Services can be securely published, reused, and invoked 
based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards. They allow 
vendors to sell their software as a service and offer business users a 
secure network to compose complex business processes. With proper 
permissions, users can automate several Business Process Management 
(BPM) functions such as: (1) analyze their requirements and match them 
to network resources, (2) model their business processes in a complete 
architecture, (3) define key operational conditions for processes, (4) 
execute their processes on the grid, and (5) monitor and manage 
processes in real-time. In addition, BSN's extend the Enterprise Service 
Bus (ESB) of each network participant by providing reliable Business to 
Business (B2B) transaction management and Service Level Agreements 
(SLA). They also offer exceptional profit opportunities to vendors based on 
Utility Computing, On Demand, or Pay-Per-Use business models. They 
effectively represent a new form of e-marketplace where IT resources and 
business services are the commodities exchanged.


OBJECTIVES OF SPECIAL ISSUE

The goal of the special issue is to crystallize the emerging technologies 
and trends into positive efforts to focus on the most promising solutions in 
Business Services Network. The papers shall provide clear proofs that 
BSN's are playing a more and more important role in supporting business
processes. It is also expected that the papers will further research
new best practices and directions in this research area. We invite papers
that address both business and technical issues of BSN's from various
perspectives, including BSN operators, software vendors, business adopters,
developers, and end-users. We encourage contributions from both
academia and industry.


RECOMMENDED TOPICS

1. BSN Operators:
      a. Business Models and Architectures
      b. Spin-Offs from Outsourcing Providers
      c. Mobile Operators and Grid Services
      d. Industry-Specific B2B Integration Alliances
      e. Inter-BSN Alliances and Interoperability
2. Software Vendors:
      a. Market Value for Software Vendors
      b. SOA-Enablement of Software Vendors
      c. Pricing and Marketing On Demand Software
      d. Service Level Agreements (SLA)
      e. Software Vendors from Developing Countries
3. Business Adopters:
      a. Comparing IT Sourcing Models (BSN, ASP, etc.)
      b. International Provisioning and Adoption Barriers
      c. Real-Time Transaction Monitoring
      d. Quality of Service (QoS)
      e. Accounting Systems for Utility Computing
4. Developers:
      a. Process Oriented, Model Driven Architectures (UML, BPMN, etc.)
      b. Synthesizing Process, Data, Component Models (MOF, BPSM, etc.)
      c. Process Specifications and Execution (WS-CDL, BPEL4WS, etc.) 
      d. Composite Processes with Messages, Documents, and Services
      e. ebSOA, Business Patterns, Universal Business Language (UBL)
5. End-Users:
      a. Service and Process Oriented Application Development Methods
      b. Intelligent Automated Process Discovery and Composition
      c. Semantic Web, Ontology Applications, Domain Specialization
      d. User Specialization and Automated Coordination
      e. Security, Privacy, and Trust


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special 
theme issue on Business Services Networks on or before March 7, 2005. 
Please, use our online submission site at http://elab.njit.edu/ijcec. All 
submissions must be original and may not be under review by another 
publication. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 21, 2005 
about the acceptance status and will receive accepted paper 
organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 
no later than April 11, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a 
double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for 
reference citations. For further details, please refer to:
http://www.idea-group.com/ijcec


INQUIRIES

Dr. Stephane Gagnon
School of Management
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
gagnon at njit.edu

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