[step-manufacturing] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises

[Ricardo Goncalves]

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Call for Papers

 
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/523112/descrip
tion#description> Computers in Industry

Special Issue on

Sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises

 

Guest editors (Contact email: rg at uninova.pt):

Prof. Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves (UNINOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa -
Portugal),

Prof. Keith Popplewell (University of Coventry, UK)

 

Rationale

Competitive markets are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic, and the
traditional way of doing business does not provide the expected efficiency.
Companies do not survive and prosper solely through their own individual
efforts. Each one's success also depends on the activities and performance
of others with whom they do business, and hence on the nature and quality of
the direct and indirect relations. These involve a mix of cooperative and
competitive elements, and to cope with them, organizations need to focus on
their core competencies by improving their relationships with customers,
streamlining their supply chains, and by collaborating with partners to
create value networks between buyers, vendors and suppliers. In such
interoperable environments, companies and the networks of which they are
part, tend to follow a dynamic and evolutionary behaviour as in Complex
Adaptive Systems (CAS), exhibiting elemental and behaviour properties which
are influenced by the environment, i.e., complex collection of interacting
adaptive agents. Awareness of the known landscape and industrial market
dynamism tends to condition an organization's behaviour (e.g.
self-organization, nonlinearity, melting zone, co-evolution), affecting its
internal elements, the wide variety of heterogeneous agents, the ability to
interact, autonomy, or even the ability to learn. 

Nowadays, the interoperability of companies' ICT systems and applications
has been prescribed by numerous frameworks and methods, guidelines at
enterprise level, data reference models and techniques looking for seamless
systems or organisations.  In parallel, most international software,
hardware and service vendors have created their own strategies for achieving
the goal of open, collaborative, loosely coupled systems and components.
Indeed, organizations wish to adapt themselves according to the market
demands and the availability of new systems and applications, or just by
reusing existing ones introducing new requirements and updates, for example
to adapt to a new client or to be part of a new collaborative working place.
Adaptation brings complexity, processes, models and semantics change,
heterogeneity of applications and data is present, mostly resulting in the
loss of stability of the enterprise interoperable environment through
failure of harmonization.

These facts introduce the new concept of sustainable interoperability.
Sustainable interoperability is a new research dimension into the
interoperability of enterprise systems and applications domain, that is
looking for novel strategies, methods and tools to maintain and sustain the
interoperability of enterprise systems in networked environments in the
advent of their dynamics. Among other things, it should address: (1)
Discovery capabilities: detecting when new enterprise system is added, or
updated in the network, driving into  harmonisation failure; (2) Learning
capacity: after detecting harmonization failure a learning process should be
triggered to learn more about the changes which occurred and the node
adaptation required; (3) Adaptability: enabling the adaptation of systems
and the optimization of the maintenance process, using knowledge
representation technologies, applied to the model management domain, such as
dynamic Model Morphisms (MoMo). (4) Transient analysis:  to understand how a
network, as an integrated complex system will suffer during transient
period, and how this affects the overall behaviour; (5)
Notification/Communication: informing in what way should the network nodes
react, so that they obtain information for the needed adaptations, in order
to enable the system, as well as the entire network, to evolve for the new
interoperable state.

This special issue seeks to bring together novel contributions from
researchers and practitioners who are exploring the definition and
applicability of systems interoperability in the advent of the future
internet based industrial enterprises, putting focus on strategies, methods
and tools to support the sustainability of interoperable ICT systems in a
scientific-based perspective. Conceptual, theoretical, empirical and
technological contributions are foreseen.

Special Issue Focal Topics


.         Reference ICT architectures, methodologies and tools to support
sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises

.         Novel contributions in the area of sustainable interoperability,
e.g., enterprise interoperability dynamics and its transient analysis;
networked enterprise systems management; behaviour monitoring and
adaptability strategies; collaboration and coordination facilities; impact
of changing requirements and information models in interoperable
environments; interoperability of digital ecosystems as "complex systems of
systems".

.         Case studies of relevant applications to support sustainable
interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises

Target Audience

Researchers and practitioners who are investigating and developing beyond
the state of the art on the definition and applicability of sustainable
interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises, and
placing new trends in, and novel proposals for the use of Information and
Communication Technology in industry, in a scientific-based or applied
research perspective.

Important Dates

.         Email the guest editors promptly (Ricardo Goncalves:
rg at uninova.pt) indicating your expression of interest, specifying the
tentative title, the authors and their affiliation, and the date foreseen
for the submission of the full paper

 

.         Foreseen publication date: March 1st, 2012

 

Note: The submissions will be reviewed according to the Computers in
Industry journal standards.

 

 

Computers in Industry aims to publish original, high-quality,
application-oriented research papers that: Show new trends in and options
for the use of Information and Communication Technology in industry; Link or
integrate different technology fields in the broad area of
computer-applications for industry;  Link or integrate different application
areas of ICT in industry.

 

Computers in Industry: ISSN: 0166-3615, Imprint: ELSEVIER

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