ICEIS 2006 will be organized by INSTICC, in collaboration with University of Cyprus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Athens University of Economics and Business and Cyprus Computer Society.


SCOPE

The purpose of the 8th 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. Five 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, Electronic Commerce and Human Factors.

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, ICEIS 2003, ICEIS 2004, ICEIS 2005) can be found at http://www.iceis.org.


CONFERENCE AREAS

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 conference 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 
5. Human-Computer Interaction

AREA 1: Databases and Information Systems Integration

• Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources 
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Middleware Integration 
• Legacy Systems 
• Organisational Issues on Systems Integration 
• Distributed Database Applications
• Object-Oriented Database Systems 
• Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture 
• Database Security and Transaction Support 
• Data Warehouses 
• Multimedia Database Applications 
• Web Databases 
• Mobile Databases
• Software Engineering
• Software Measurement

AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems

• Intelligent Agents 
• Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence 
• Strategic Decision Support Systems 
• Group Decision Support Systems 
• Applications of Expert Systems 
• Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic 
• Advanced Applications of Neural Network 
• Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems 
• Bayesian Networks 
• Evolutionary Programming  
• Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems 
• Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications 
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems 
• Datamining
• Case-Based Reasoning Systems
• Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
• Knowledge Management

AREA 3: Information Systems Analysis and Specification

• Systems Engineering Methodologies 
• Information Engineering Methodologies 
• Organisational Semiotics 
• Semiotics in Computing 
• Requirements Analysis 
• Ontology Engineering 
• Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants) 
• CASE Tools for System Development 
• Modelling of Distributed Systems 
• Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools 
• Business Processes Re-engineering
• Security, Freedom and Privacy

AREA 4: Software Agents and Internet Computing

• B2B and B2C Applications 
• Process Design and Organisational Issues in e-Commerce 
• E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management 
• Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions 
• E-Learning and e-Teaching 
• Intranet and Extranet Business Applications 
• Agents for Internet Computing 
• Web Information Agents 
• Case studies on Electronic Commerce 
• Public sector applications of e-Commerce 
• Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications 
• Network Implementation Choices 
• Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing 
• Internet and Collaborative Computing
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Wireless and Mobile Computing
• Agent-Oriented Programming

AREA 5: Human-Computer Interaction

• HCI on Enterprise Information Systems 
• Functional and non-functional Requirements 
• Internet HCI: Web Interfaces and Usability 
• Design Methodology and Cognitive Factors in Design
• Multimedia Systems
• Machine perception: vision, speech, other
• Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• User Needs 
• Human Factors 
• Accessibility to Disabled Users 
• Geographical Information Systems
• E-Learning
• Computer Art

WORKSHOPS

- 5th International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems
- 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation,Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems
- 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science
- 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing
- 4th International Workshop on Security In Information Systems
- 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination
- 4th International Workshop on Web Services and Grid Computing
- 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
- 2nd International Workshop on Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems
- 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Processes
- 1st International Workshop on Management Aspects of ERP system Implementation

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Dr. J. K. Aggarwal, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Dr. Georges Gardarin, Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, PRiSM, France
- Dr. Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA
- Dr. Matthias Jarke, Rwth Aachen University, Germany
- Dr. Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Dr. John B. Oommen, Carleton University, Canada

TUTORIALS

- Prof. Pedro Henrique Gouvêa Coelho, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Prof. Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors should submit a paper in English up to 8 A4 pages, 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.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Full Paper Submission: deadline expired
Position Paper Submission: 21st November 2005
Author Notification: 20th December 2005
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 24th January 2006


SECRETARIAT

ICEIS 2006 Secretariat
E-mail:
Web:http://www.iceis.org/


VENUE

Will be available soon.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Joaquim Filipe, INSTICC/EST-Setúbal, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Panos Constantopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
José Cordeiro, INSTICC/EST-Setúbal, Portugal


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Joaquim Filipe, INSTICC/EST-Setúbal, Portugal


GENERAL WORKSHOPS CHAIRS

Slimane Hammoudi, École Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France
Olivier Camp, École Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France

SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Luís Amaral, University of Minho, Portugal
Peter Bøgh Andersen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Senén Barro, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jean Bézivin, ATLAS Group (INRIA & IRIN), University of Nantes, France
Enrique Bonsón, University of Huelva, Spain
João Alvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
Albert Cheng, University of Houston, United States of America
Bernard Coulette, University of Toulouse 2, France
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
António Figueiredo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ulrich Frank, ICB - University of Essen, Germany
Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden
Nuno Guimarães, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jatinder Gupta, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States of America
Jean-Paul Haton, Université Henri-Poincaré, Nancy 1, France
Dimitris Karagiannis , University of Vienna, Austria
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Michel Leonard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Kecheng Liu, The University of Reading, United Kingdom
Pericles Loucopoulos, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Paul Luker, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
José Legatheaux Martins, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Masao Johannes Matsumoto, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Luís Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Alain Pirotte, University of Louvain, Belgium
James Odell, James Odell Associates, United States of America
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Marcin Paprzycki, OSU, United States of America
Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Colette Rolland, University of PARIS-1, France
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, United States of America
Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University , Taiwan
Alexander Smirnov, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Sciences - SPIIRAS, Russia
Ronald Stamper, Staffordshire University (United Kingdom) and University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Miguel Toro, University of Seville, Spain
Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
François Vernadat, European Commission, Luxembourg
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Frank Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities, United Kingdom
Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, United States of America
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Yoneo Yano, The University of Tokushima, Japan

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REGULAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Patrick Albers, ESEO, France
Salah Al-Sharhan, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
Andreas Andreou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Pedro Antunes, DI/FCUL, Portugal
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, United Kingdom
Bart Baesens, School of Management, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Cecilia Baranauskas, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Steve Barker, King's College London University, United Kingdom
Balbir Barn, Thames Valley University, United Kingdom
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Remi Bastide, LIIHS - IRIT, France
Nadia Bellalem, University NANCY 2, France
Hatem Ben Sta, Tunisia University, Tunisia
Peter Bertok, RMIT University, Australia
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada
Oliver Bittel, FH Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Luis Borges Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Djamel Bouchaffra, Oakland University, United States of America
Danielle Boulanger, University of Lyon, France
Jean-Louis Boulanger, University of Technologie of Compiegne, France
José Ângelo Braga de Vasconcelos, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Miguel Calejo, Declarativa, Portugal
Coral Calero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon / Uninova, Portugal
Jorge Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal
Fernando Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Jose Jesus Castro-Schez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica , Paraguay
Maria Filomena Cerqueira de Castro Lopes, Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique, Portugal
Laurent Chapelier, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, France
William Cheng-Chung Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan
Chrisment Claude, IRIT/SIG, France
Francesco Colace, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca- FIET - Depto Sistemas, Colombia
Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain
Julie Cowie, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Sharon Cox, University of Central England, United Kingdom
Mohamed Dahchour, Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), Morocco
Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Andrea De Lucia, Università di Salerno, Italy
Nuno de Magalhães Ribeiro, Centro de Estudos e Recursos Multimediáticos (CEREM), UFP, Portugal
José Javier Dolado, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alan Eardley, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
David Emery, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Jean-Max Estay, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France
João Faria, FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal
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
Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Andre Flory, INSA de Lyon, France
Donal Flynn, UMIST, United Kingdom
Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Lixin Fu, University of Carolina, Greensboro, United States of America
Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Marcela Genero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
Raúl Giráldez, University of Seville, Spain
Pascual González, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Robert Goodwin, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
Silvia Gordillo, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina
Feliz Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa / CEREM, Portugal
Virginie Govaere, INRS, France
Sven Groppe, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sissel Guttormsen Schär, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Laboratoire LARIS, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Tunisia
Thorsten Hampel, University of Paderborn, Germany
Ajantha Herath, Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey, United States of America
Suvineetha Herath, Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey, United States of America
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Colin Higgins, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Peter Higgins, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Erik Hollnagel, University of Linköping, Sweden
Jun Hong, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Nguyen Hong Quang, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI), Viet Nam
Jiankun Hu, Computer Science Dept., RMIT University, Australia
Kaiyin Huang, K H Group BV, The Netherlands
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
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
Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany
Hiroyuki Kawano, Nanzan University, Japan
Nicolas Kemper Valverde, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
A. Rahman Khan, INTEL Corporation, United States of America
John Krogstie, IDI, NTNU and SINTEF, Norway
Stan Kurkovsky, Central Connecticut State University, United States of America
Yannick Lallement, Novator Systems, Canada
Chul-Hwan Lee, University of Pittsburgh, United States of America
Carlos León de Mora, University of Sevilla, Spain
Hareton Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Therese Libourel, LIRMM, France
John Lim, National University of Singapore , Singapore
Hong Ling, School of Management, Fudan University, China
Matti Linna, University of Vaasa, Finland
Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Stephane Loiseau, LERIA, France
João Correia Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal
María Dolores Lozano, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jianguo Lu, Univserity of Windsor, Canada
Christopher Lueg, University of Tasmania, Australia
Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP - University of Campinas, Brazil
Laurent Magnin, University of Montreal, Canada
Sam Makki, University of Toledo, United States of America
Mirko Malekovic, FOI - Zagreb University, Croatia
Nuno Mamede, L2F INESC-ID Lisboa / IST, Portugal
João Bosco Mangueira Sobral, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil
Esperanza Marcos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Farhi Marir, London Metropolitan University , United Kingdom
Maria João Marques Martins, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Herve Martin, LSR-IMAG, France
Johannes Mayer, University of Ulm, Germany
Andreas Meier, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Emilia Mendes, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Université d'Artois - IUT de Lens, CRIL-CNRS, France
Subhas Misra, Carleton University, Canada
Sudip Misra, ChartWELL, Inc., Canada
Ghodrat Moghadampour, University of Vaasa, Finland
Paula Morais, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, United Kingdom
Ana Neves, knowman - Consultadoria em Gestao, Lda, Portugal
Jose Angel Olivas, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Peter Oriogun, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
José R. Paramá, University of A Coruña, Spain
Vicente Pelechano, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Maria Carmen Penadés Gramaje, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Laurent Péridy, IMA-UCO, France
Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli , Italy
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Steef Peters, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paolo Petta, Medical University of Vienna; Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
José Pires, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão / IPB, Portugal
Jacek Plodzien, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Geert Poels, Faculty of Economics and Business Economics, Ghent University, Belgium
Macario Polo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Bhanu Prasad, Florida A & M University, United States of America
Pedro Ramos, ISCTE, Portugal
Ulrich Reimer, Business Operation Systems, Switzerland
Marinette Revenu, ENSICAEN, France
Simon Richir, Presence & Innovation Lab. ENSAM Laval, France
António Rito-Silva, INESC/IST-Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
David Rivreau, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France
Daniel Rodriguez, The University of Reading, United Kingdom
Pilar Rodriguez, Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Agostinho Rosa, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina
Francisco Ruiz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Henry Samier, Université d'ANGERS, France
Manuel Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Daniel Schang, ESEO, France
Arno Scharl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Isabel Seruca, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Hanifa Shah, Staffordshire University, UK
Jianhua Shao, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom
Alberto Silva, INESC/IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maria João Silva Costa Ferreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Janice Sipior, Villanova University, United States of America
Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA Lorraine - University Henri Ponicaré, France
Chantal Soule-Dupuy, University of Toulouse 1 - IRIT, France
Chris Stary, University of Linz, Austria
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, United States of America
Lily Sun, The University of Reading, United Kingdom
Ramayah T., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Philippe Thiran, University of Namur, Belgium
Claudine Toffolon, Université du Littoral - Côte d'Opale, France
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Ambrosio Toval, University of Murcia, Spain
Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Gulden Uchyigit, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Athina Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Michael Vassilakopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki , Greece
Christine Verdier, INSA of Lyon, France
Maria-Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain
HO Tuong Vinh, Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Informatique (IFI), Viet Nam
Aurora Vizcaino, Escuela Superior de Informática, Spain
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart, Germany
Gerhard Weiss, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Graham Winstanley, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Claus Witfelt, ITU, Denmark
Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, United States of America
Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States of America
Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne , France
Liping Zhao, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Lin ZongKai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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