The Software Systems group organises IEEE-DEST 2008 conference track

Thursday 20 September 2007

Digital ecosystems capture the essence of the classical, complex ecological environment in nature, where organisms form a dynamic and interrelated complex ecosystem. They converse and utilise its resources. This analogy is a new mind-set and way of thinking in the Digital Economy. Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional, rigorously defined collaborative environments, such as centralised (client-server) or distributed models (peer-to-peer) or hybrid model (such as web services) into a self-organised, interactive environment which offers cost-effective digital services and value-creating activities that attract human, organisational and software agents that participate in and benefit from it.

The IEEE-DEST conference series provides a forum that aims to strengthen ICT to support digital ecosystems in different domains, especially focusing on domain based collaboration facilitated by the digital networked paradigm such as e-business, e-humanities, cultural systems and economic systems. More details on the scope of the conference and its tracks can be found here.

The track on Models of Open Transactions in Digital Ecosystems (MOTRADE'08) within this year's IEEE-DEST conference is concerned with the design of transaction models that can imporve B2B cooperation in digital ecosystems for business. The context behind the theme of this track is set by the research performed in the EU-FP6 project DBE (for Digital Business Ecosystem) and the EU-FP6 funded Network of Excellence OPAALS (for Open Philosophies of Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems) stands of which have been looking at the nature of transactions in digital ecosystems, and in particular the design and modelling techniques for long-running transactions whose underlying services can be composed in a variety of ways and be coordinated in a distributed manner.

The aim of this track is to bring together researchers from academia and industry interested in modelling as well as associated analysis and reasoning techniques with practical benefits for distributed long-running multi-service transactions in Digital Ecosystems for business. Attendance is invited from all the projects in the European Commission<92>s Digital Ecosystems cluster and any other projects, research centres, academic and private-sector institutions from Europe and other parts of the world.

Topics of interest include:

- Languages, models, and techniques for local coordination
- Distributed service orchestration
- Concurrency control
- Compensation and recovery management
- Forward recovery and omitted results

We particularly encourage authors to submit innovative and orginal papers that report on:

- formal and theoretical models
- applications, case studies and experimental work
- software frameworks, tools and methodologies

Prospective participants are invited to electronically submit a full paper (6 pages, about 4500 words as a PDF or WinWord file) of their original work. IEEE instructions for authors are available at www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008. The electronic submission is handled through the IEEE-DEST conference website where you will be asked to specify the relevant track. Each paper will undergo a rigorous peer review process involving at least two reviewers. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign the IEEE copyright form. At least one author of each accepted submission must register and present the paper at the conference.

Time 26-29 February 2008
Place Phitsanulok, Thailand
Call for papers: http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/motrade08/cfp-motrade08.pdf
Website: http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/motrade08/