ICEIS 2003 will be organised and hosted by ESEO - L' École Superieur d' Électronique de l' Ouest - Angers (France), in collaboration with EST - Escola Superior de Tecnologia de
Setúbal (Portugal).
The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of
information systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering
different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including
Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial
Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and
Specification, Internet Computing and Electronic Commerce. Human factors issues in the development of these applications are also considered.
ICEIS focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should
highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services.
Ideas on how to solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the
conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and
techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also
encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas
listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the
authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be
based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and
work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster
sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations,
as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies
or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the
conference secretariat. Information concerning the previous ICEIS editions
(ICEIS'99, ICEIS 2000, ICEIS 2001, ICEIS 2002) can be found at http://www.iceis.org,
http://www.est.ips.pt/iceis
and http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis.
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is
not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics,
although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related
sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following
main topic areas:
1. Databases and Information Systems Integration
2. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
3. Information Systems Analysis and Specification
4. Software Agents and Internet Computing
ICEIS expects to host several workshops. If you would like to propose the
organization of a workshop to be held in conjunction with ICEIS 2003, please
contact the secretariat as soon as possible.
ICEIS 2003 will have several tutorials, as in previous editions, to be
lectured the day before the conference opening. If you would like to propose
a tutorial for ICEIS 2003, please contact the secretariat as soon as
possible. Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the
background knowledge expected of the participants, and a short CV of the
instructor(s).
Authors should submit a paper in English of about 8 A4 pages, up to
5.000 words, using the paper format indicated below. The program
committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will
be notified of the result, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the
nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains
or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the
conference track to which the paper is submitted. The paper must be
carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling.
Authors should use the ICEIS
web-based submission facility available at the conference web site, to enter
the contact information of all paper authors plus the file containing the
paper. The facility will automatically send a submission
acknowledgement, by email, to the author indicated as "contact
author".
A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To
facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the
full paper, WITHOUT any reference to the authors. The manuscript must
contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of
keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in
any part of this file.
If the author is unable to use the web-based procedure then he/she can send
the paper by email to the secretariat
attaching a second file containing: the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details, a list of keywords and an abstract.
The camera-ready format should be strictly used for all submitted
papers. Please check and carefully follow the instructions
and templates provided.
Due to space
limitations in the Proceedings, the camera-ready version will be limited to
8 (eight) pages for full papers, 6 (six) for short papers (progress reports)
and 4 (four) for poster presentations. If absolutely needed, it will be
allowed to increase the total number of pages, by 4 extra pages. However,
for each excess page the author will have to pay an additional fee.
Full Paper Submission: 31st October
2002
Position paper/poster submission: 15th November 2002
Workshops Submission: 15th December 2002
Author Notification: 23rd December 2002
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 21st January 2003
ICEIS-2003 Secretariat
ESEO - École Supérieure d' Électronique de l' Ouest
4, rue Merlet de la Boulaye - BP926 - 49009 ANGERS CEDEX 01 - FRANCE
Tel: +33 2 41 86 67 19 Fax: +33 2 41 87 99 27
E-mail for paper submission and proceedings: secretariat ( at ) iceis.org
E-mail for local arrangements and registrations: iceis2003@eseo.fr
Web: http://www.iceis.org/
Angers, the capital of the historic province of Anjou, is considered one
of the most beautiful cities in France, with its old streets, museums, gardens, gastronomic restaurants, art festivals. Foremost among its many notable
structures is the magnificent twin-spiraled Cathedral of Saint Maurice
(12th-13th century) and the massive Castle of Angers (early 13th century),
with its moat and soaring towers. Today the castle of Angers houses a
tapestry museum that includes the famous 140 meters long Apocalypse
series. The town has seen passing through it some of the greatest figures in the history of France: the
Plantagenêts, King René, the writer François Rabelais, the poet Joachim du
Bellay, as well as the composer Clément Janequin and the surgeon Ambroise
Paré.
Strategically located in the "Val de Loire", recently recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage for humanity,
the site of the most beautiful
French castles, near the Paris region and the western part of France, ANGERS
is also at the heart of a knowledge-intensive region, offering a wide range
of education centers and successful research institutes, and attracting many
successful IT enterprises.
The high-speed train (TGV) can easily reach Paris in only 1 1/2 hours.
Olivier Camp, École
Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France (olivier.camp@eseo.fr) Mario Piattini, E.S. Informática - Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (mpiattini@inf-cr.uclm.es)
Luis Amaral, University of Minho, Portugal Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes, France Enrique Bonsón, University of Huelva, Spain João A. Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal Albert Cheng, University of Houston and Rice University, United
States of America Helder Coelho, FC - University of Lisbon, Portugal Miguel Delgado, University of Granada, Spain Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands António Figueiredo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Mark S. Fox, University of Toronto, Canada Thomas Greene, MIT, United States of America Nuno Guimarães, University of Lisbon, Portugal Jatinder Gupta, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, United
States of America Jean-Paul Haton, University Henri Poincaré, France Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Maurizio Lenzerini, University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy Michel Leonard, University of Geneve, Switzerland Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, United Kingdom Paul Luker, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, Finland Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece José Legatheaux Martins, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Masao Matsumoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan James Odell, James Odell Associates, United States of America Alain Pirotte, Catholique University of Louvain, Belgium Klaus Pohl, University of Essen, Germany Colette Rolland, University of PARIS-1, France Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg - SPIIRAS, Russia Ronald Stamper, University of Twente, The Netherlands Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain José Tribolet, INESC/IST - Tecnhical University of Lisbon, Portugal François Vernadat, European Commission, Luxembourg Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, United States of
America Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
REGULAR
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz, University of Seville, Spain Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland Patrick Albers, ESEO - Ecole Superieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest,
France Albert Alderson, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Lina Al-Jadir, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Pedro Antunes, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Portugal Joaquim Aparício, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Cecilia Baranauskas, UNICAMP, Brazil Balbir Barn, Thames Valley University, United Kingdom Senén Barro, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Lamia Belguith, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax,
Tunisie Nadia Bellalem, University Nancy 2, France Peter Bernus, Griffith University, Australia Peter Bertok, RMIT University, Australia Robert Biddle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Oliver Bittel, FH Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Ivan Bratko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Nieves R. Brisaboa, Universidade de A Coruña, Spain Danielle Boulanger, University of Lyon 3, France Coral Calero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Fernando Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil Jose Jesus Castro-Schez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica, Paraguay Laurent Chapelier, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, France Hervé Christofol, Laboratoire CPNI/Université d'Angers, France William Cheng-Chung Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan Rodney Clarke, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Chrisment Claude, IRIT/SIG, France Rafael Corchuelo, University of Sevilla, Spain Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Bernard Coulette, University of Toulouse 2, France Sharon Cox, University of Central England, United Kingdom Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, United Kingdom José Javier Dolado, University of the Basque Country, Spain Gilles Dubois, University of Lyon 3, France Jean-Christophe Dubois, Universite de Rennes 1, France Béatrice Duval, LERIA, France Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom David Emery, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Jean-Max Estay, I.M.A., France Elie Fadier, INRS, France Jesus Favela, CICESE, United States of America Eduardo Fernández-Medina, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Edilson Ferneda, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brazil Paulo Ferreira, INESC-ID/IST - Tecnhical University of Lisbon,
Portugal Andre Flory, INSA de LYON, France Ulrich Frank, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Marcela Genero, UCLM, Spain Pascual González, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Silvia Gordillo, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa / CEREM, Portugal Luis Borges Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal Virginie Govaere, INRS, France Åke Grönlund, Umeå University, Sweden Corinne Grusenmeyer, INRS, France Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ole Hanseth, University of Oslo, Norway Michael Heng, University of South Australia, Australia Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Peter Higgins, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Kaiyin Huang, Business Alliance Services International, Netherlands Hamid Jahankhani, University of East London, United Kingdom Arturo Jaime, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain Luis Jiménez Linares, UCLM, Spain Luis Joyanes, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Manuel Kolp, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium John Krogstie, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Norway Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil Yannick Lallement, Novator, Canada David Langlois, LORIA, France Franz Lehner, University of Regensburg, Germany Carlos León de Mora, University of Sevilla, Spain Hareton Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Therese Libourel, LIRMM, France John Lim, National University of Singapore, Singapore Matti Linna, University of Vaasa, Finland Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University , Sweden Stephane Loiseau, LERIA, France João Correia Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal Andrea De Lucia, University of Sannio, Italy Christopher Lueg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP - University of Campinas, Brazil Laurent Magnin, CRIM, Canada Mirko Malekovic, FOI - Zagreb University, Croatia Nuno Mamede, INESC/IST - Tecnhical University of Lisbon, Portugal Esperanza Marcos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Vila Maria-Amparo, University of Granada, Spain Farhi Marir, North London University, United Kingdom Maria João Martins, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Andreas Meier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Emilia Mendes, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Giorgio de Michelis, University of Milano, Italy Ghodrat Moghadampour, University of Vaasa, Finland Hoda Mokhtar, University of California at Santa Barbara, United
States of America Pascal Molli, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, France Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Lehigh University, United States of America Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, AFIA, France Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Luis Olsina Santos, GIDIS, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa,
Argentina George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jose Parets-Llorca, Universidad de Granada, Spain Oscar Pastor, DSIC-UPV, Spain Maria Carmen Penadés Gramaje, Technical University of Valencia,
Spain Thomas Penzel, Hospital of Philipps-University Marburg, Germany Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Laurent Péridy, IMA-UCO, France Steef Peters, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Fernando Moura Pires, University of Évora, Portugal José Pires, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão / IPB, Portugal Jacek Plodzien, Institute of Computer Science PAS, Poland Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium Macario Polo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Bhanu Prasad, Georgia Southwestern State University, United States of
America Nguyen Quang, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI), Viet Nam Pedro Ramos, ISCTE, Portugal Ulrich Reimer, Business Operation Systems, Germany Marinette Revenu, ISMRA, France Nuno de Magalhães Ribeiro, CEREM - UFP, Portugal Simon Richir, CPNI Lab., France José Riquelme, University of Seville, Spain David Rivreau, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France John Roddick, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Pilar Rodriguez, Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Agostinho Rosa, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, United States of America Francisco Ruiz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Bernhard Rumpe, Munich University of Technology, Germany Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt Henry Samier, Université d'Angers, France Daniel Schang, ESEO, France Arno Scharl, Vienna University of Economics & BA, Austria Mareike Schoop, RWTH AACHEN, Germany Jianhua Shao, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Alberto Silva, INESC/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal António Rito da Silva, INESC/IST-Technical University of Lisbon,
Portugal Miguel Mira da Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Vasilios Siris, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas,
Greece Hala Skaf-Molli, LORIA-University Henri Ponicaré, France João Bosco Sobral, UFSC / CPGCC - Computer Science Pos-Graduate,
Brazil Chantal Soule-Dupuy, University of Toulouse 1 - IRIT, France Lily Sun, University of Reading, United Kingdom David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Reza Torkzadeh, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States of America Ambrosio Toval, University of Murcia, Spain Alfred Ultsch, University of Marburg, Germany Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain José de Vasconcelos, Universidade Fernando Pessoa / CEREM, Portugal Luminita Vasiu, Middlesex University, School of Computing Science,
United Kingdom Christine Verdier, INSA of Lyon, France Ho Tuong Vinh, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI),
Viet Nam Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart, Germany Gerhard Weiss, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany David Wilson, University of London, United Kingdom Graham Winstanley, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, United States of America Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Yoneo Yano, Tokushima University , Japan Lin ZongKai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
