[ ARCHIVE ] International Workshop on Modeling Inter-Organizational Systems focusing on Collaboration and Interoperability, Architectures and Ontologies (MIOS-CIAO'06)

October 29 - November 3, 2006
Montpellier, France

Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS 


MOTIVATION

Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. Agility thus has become the new guiding principle for enterprises. This requires flexible organizational structures and business processes, as well as flexible supporting information systems and a flexible ICT-infrastructure. In addition, an enterprise needs to be able to easily expand or shrink, be it through collaborations with other enterprises, through mergers or acquisitions, or through insourcing or outsourcing of services.

In order to meet these economical requirements, enterprises rely increasingly on the benefits of modern information and communication technology (ICT). However, the appropriate knowledge to deploy this technology as needed, and in an effective and efficient way, is largely lacking, particularly knowledge regarding the collaboration in and between enterprises and knowledge regarding the interoperability of their information systems.

Up to last year, several successful MIOS workshops (Modeling Inter-Organizational Systems) have been held. Based on the inspiring experience of the 2005 workshop, the 2006 workshop will again be a real workshop, providing ample time for discussions, during two days. Consequently, the paper presentations will be short, covering only the highlights. In addition, the focus will be on CIAO: the problems areas Collaboration and Interoperability, and the application of Architecture and Ontology in dealing with them.


GOAL

We want to gather researchers working on topics concerning inter- and intra-enterprise collaboration, and concerning the interoperability of information systems, covering issues like business process modeling, information systems modeling, enterprise and system ontology, enterprise and system architecture. The goal of the workshop is to share innovative research issues, and to facilitate profound discussions about them. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Modeling cross-enterprise business processes
  • Reference models for cross-enterprise business processes
  • Enterprise ontologies
  • Enterprise architectures
  • Cross-enterprise workflow management
  • Business rules and business protocols
  • Business protocols standards
  • Deriving IOS from cross-enterprise business processes
  • Information system ontologies
  • Information system architectures
  • Component-based system development
  • Business components and metamodeling
  • Interoperability testing and verification
  • Methodological standards
  • Business domain standards, e.g. accounting, billing, payment, SCM, purchasing


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Co-Chairs

Antonia Albani ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ),
Chair of Business Information Systems and Systems Engineering,
University of Augsburg, Germany

Jan L.G. Dietz ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ),
Chair of Information Systems Design,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands