Topics

Business, people and system interoperability

• Philosophical and social perspectives of interoperability
• Human oriented systems
• Emerging technologies and paradigms
• Methods, architectures and communication technologies supporting interoperability
• Enterprise modelling and virtual organisations
• E-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government

• Model driven paradigm shift
• Business rules approach
• The synergy of agile and model driven development processes
• IS modelling, testing and verification
• Quality of business software

• Business process modelling and management
• Business excellence and Business intelligence solutions
• Data warehousing
• Reporting
• Decision support systems
• Healthcare/Medical informatics

• Requirement engineering in changing world
• Selection, configuration and adaptation of software
• Processes and methods supporting adaptation
• Self-adaptive business and software systems

• Open source development and deployment tools
• Integrating open source technology with commercial and proprietary products
• Open source solutions for model driven development
• Interoperability of open source communities and business systems

• Knowledge management in interconnected world
• Semantic Web methods
• Ontology modelling languages and tools
• Ontology applications in business
• E-learning and learning organisations

• Feasibility of existing standards, techniques and languages
• Scenarios for application value optimization
• Contextualized value and quality
• User acceptance of new technology