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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
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 Workshop on Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications  (VLBA
                                  2014)
                                    
                            in conjunction with
    17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS
                                  2014)
                                     

                             Larnaca, Cyprus
                              May 21, 2014

                     /bis2013/wscfp.php?ws=vlba2014

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                Deadline for submissions: March 21, 2014

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	Very Large Business Applications (VLBA) act as enabler for intra- and
interorganisational business processes and play a significant role in the
development of new business models. With a special focus on related
operations management this workshop aims at studying, grounding, and
finally exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and
coordination problems in distributed business processes as a key enabler
of flexible, boundaryless information systems.
	
	Key research questions are:
	- how to represent VLBA in service-based information systems by
employing and adapting constructs, models, and methods of different
information systems technology stacks,
	- how to coordinate software services by employing and adapting
approaches for service discovery and composition,
	- how to operate large-scale, highly distributed enterprise systems
aligned with the needs of an agile business environment,
	- how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based
services (SLA),
	- how to control the delivery of software-based services in VLBA by
measuring efficiency and effectiveness.
 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Cloud Computing and VLBA
* VLBA Operations Management
* Strategic, tactic and operative Systems Landscape Engineering
* VLBA Business Simulations
* VLBA Business Models
* Analytical Business Process Engineering for VLBA
* VLBA and Knowledge Management
* VLBA security issues
* Innovative VLBA Applications

SUBMISSION

* Long papers: max. 12 pages
* Work-in-progress reports: max. 8 pages
* Demo papers: max. 4 pages


 
  Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP
template available from
	http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0.

	Submission system is available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=covlba2014.

	For accepted papers, a fast-forward will be provided to selected
journals. Information on this in detail will follow.
 
WORKSHOP FORMAT

 
	Each paper submitted to BIS workshop will be reviewed by at least two
Referees.

	At least one author of each paper needs to register for the conference
for the paper to be included in proceedings.

	Workshop registration entitles to participate in the conference, as well
as in all workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with it.
 
IMPORTANT DATES

* March 21, 2014 - submission deadline for papers
* April 27, 2014 - notification of acceptance/rejection
* May 10, 2014 - submission of final papers
* May 21, 2014 - the workshop

ORGANIZERS

* Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, MRCC / Business Informatics,
  Germany (http://www.ovgu.de/)

CHAIRS

* Holger Schrödl
* Klaus Turowski

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)

* Holger Schrödl, University of Magdeburg, Germany
* Klaus Turowski, University of Magdeburg, Germany

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