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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009 Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges A book edited by Dr. Ejub Kajan State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=681 Introduction Recently, the new expansion of EC is taking place, especially in the form of B2B. The main goal of B2B is to provide business entities with the ability to establish business relationships in such a manner that their public business processes may interact with each other exchanging their data. In a business scenario, business entities are usually loosely coupled; that means business processes require ad hoc integration from time to time. Such integration on demand may experience many conflicts. Problems arise due to the huge heterogeneity between business processes and data involved, which are both different by nature on the one side and on the other side between underlying IT technologies, which are different by default. Many efforts have been devoted to overcoming interoperability problems of any kind, but they have not reached their promise yet. Instead of unlimited interoperability inside and between business entities, the result was too many mutually incompatible "standa! rds" that formed isolated areas of e-business seeking for new investments over and over again. Recent research efforts are looking very promising. They are concentrating on two big goals: to provide middleware technologies and frameworks which are capable to act as self-acting dynamic artifacts at the time of invocation and to provide necessary semantic understanding between peers of any kind. Despite well-defined goals and recent results, the whole thing is still under development. At the same time, the problem of security of such potentially very open platforms has been raised. The security requirements for B2B transactions are very rigorous. There is a need to protect business data before, after, and during the transactions on the transmission line. Many times, the business process occurs between two partners who have no trust in each other or there is a third party in a transaction. What about semantic ad hoc frameworks, how to protect data and business processes in a w! ide-open knowledgeable machine readable environment where many! coopera tive processes are taking place with no human intervention. That is a big issue of the security of intelligent frameworks we are going to build. Objective of the Book This book is will aim to analyze and overview main obstacles, to give critical assessment on existing approaches, and to show recent research efforts in order to overcome interoperability problems in electronic business. It will serve as a source of knowledge for researchers, educators, students, and industry practitioners to share and exchange their most current research findings, ideas, practices, challenges, and opportunities concerning electronic business interoperability. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of researchers, teachers, undergraduate and PhD students in various e-business programs. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Topics of this book will address technologies, theories, issues, opportunities, and challenges of e-business interoperability. 1. Heterogeneity issues * Data * Business processes * Electronic catalogs * Classification schemas * Different existing middleware frameworks inside and between enterprises 2. Enabling technologies * Experiences with earlier generations of middleware technologies * Web services * Mediator/wrapper technologies * Semantic Web * Ontologies in electronic business * Ontology development, representation, and alignment 3. Enabling frameworks * Critical assessment of existing frameworks * Web services based frameworks * Ontology-based frameworks * Intelligent dynamic frameworks 4. Security of e-business frameworks * Attack analysis * Security on the communication layer of interoperability * Security on the syntax layer * Security on the semantic layer Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 15, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 30, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 30, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Additional information regarding this publication can also be found at http://gislab.elfak.ni.ac.rs/ejub. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference" and "IGI Publishing" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011. Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK Dr. Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Dr. Amit Jain, University of South Carolina, USA Dr. Slobodanka Djordjevic-Kajan, University of Niš, Serbia Dr. Ricardo Goncalves, Uninova University, Portugal Dr. Pedro Isaías, Portugese Open University, Portugal Dr. In Lee, Western Illinois University, Chicago, US Dr. Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Dr. Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Dr. Antonija Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Dr. Florian Rozenberg, Technical University Vienna, Austria Dr. Yazhe Tang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Dr. Vladimir Tošic, NICTA, Australia Dr. Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia Important Dates July 30, 2009-October 15, 2009: Proposal Submission August 15, 2009-October 30, 2009: Notification of Acceptance September 30, 2009-December 30, 2009: Full Chapter Submission November 30, 2009-March 15, 2010: Review Results Returned December 30, 2009-April 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission January 15, 2010-April 30, 2010: Final Acceptance Notification January 31, 2010-May 15, 2010: Submission of Final Chapters Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Ejub Kajan Department of Mathematical, Physics and Information Sciences State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia Tel.: +381 20 337 201 • Fax: +381 20 337 669 E-mail: eja@bankerinter.net ?? ?? ?? ??