Inaugural IEEE International Digital EcoSystems Technologies
Conference IEEE-
DEST 2007 Business Ecosystems
for Small and Medium
Enterprises Cairns, Australia
21-23 February 2007
http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au
Digital Ecosystem (DE) is an emerging paradigm
for economic and
technological innovation. It consists of a self-organizing digital
infrastructure, aimed at creating a digital environment
for networked
organizations (or agents) the supporting the cooperation, knowledge
sharing, and development of open and adaptive technologies and
evolutionary domain knowledge rich environments. DE captures the
essence of the ecological community in nature, where biological
organisms
form a dynamic and interrelated complex ecosystem, in
analogy with economic organisms (such as business entities) or digital organisms (such as software applications).
Digital species, just like biological ones, 'create and conserve
resources that humans find valuable'.
The DE paradigm is increasingly regarded as the main driver behind
'business model innovation in the Digital Economy'. It transcends
traditional rigorously defined collaborative environments, such as
centralised
(client-server) or distributed (peer-to-peer) models into
agents-based, loosely coupled, domain-specific and demand driven
interactive communities which offer cost-effective digital services
and value-creating activities that attract agents to participate and benefit from it.
DEs can be specifi
cally developed
for the Small and Medium Enterprise
community, where species in the ecosystem include virtual enterprises,
business portals, service brokers and organizational databases.
DE technologies provide transparent, open ICT support to the
ecosystem's intelligence and knowledge based development, moving away
from isolated business to business cooperation toward systemic
collaboration, competition, and synergy with partners, enabling
virtual economic districts and enhancing their competitiveness over the global market.
The key strategic direction of IEEE-
DEST 2007 conference is conveying
DE vision and research results to enrich Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Today, SMEs compose over 90% of all world industry and 95% of them
belong to the private sector. They are a major part of the global
economy, especially in developing countries where their vitality,
together with the innovation potential of DEs could lead to the
establishment of profitable niche markets. Process digitalisation in
the framework of digital ecosystems will foster new partnerships and collaborative research.
An important part of the strategy of this IEEE-
DEST Conference is to
work together with SMEs toward the adoption of DE-based business
models and technologies.
The 1st IEEE-
DEST Conference will become the main international
forum
for researchers and practitioners to exchange in
formation regarding
advancements in the state of the art and practice of advanced models
for designing and deploying inter-organizational digital business
processes involving networks of small and medium enterprises.
-- DEADLINES --
Deadline
for Tutorial, Workshops and Special Session Proposal Due:30 July 2006
Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 September 2006
Paper Acceptance Notifications: 15 November 2006
Final 'Camera Ready' Papers Due: 31 December 2006
Workshops: 20 February 2007
Conference: 21-23 February 2007
Tour: 24 February 2007
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CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS -- We invite proposals
for
tutorials and special sessions to be held in conjunction with
Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystem Technologies
for Small and Medium
Enterprises Conference. Please submit a full proposal to the
conference manager stating your objectives, intended audience,
associated costs, projected attendees, committee members and their
affiliations and estimated duration of your session or tutorial. Full proposals are due by 30 July 2006.
www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au
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CALL FOR PAPERS --
Prospective participants are invited to electroni
cally submit a full paper
(6 pages, about 4500 words, pdf or WinWord file) of their original
work following the IEEE instructions available on the website of the conference.
Please visit the conference website
for full track in
formation.
Each paper will undergo a rigorous peer review process involving at
least two reviewers. Proceedings will be made available by IEEE in CD
format.
-- TRACKS --
Infrastructure
for Digital Ecosystems
Digital Business Ecosystems
Digital Ecosystem Technologies
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
for Digital Ecosystems Trust and
Risks in Digital Ecosystems Security and Privacy in Digital Ecosystems
Intelligent Digital Ecosystems Digital Domain Ecosystems
Interdisciplinary Research Students' Research
-- CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA --
Cairns is located in Australia's tropical far North Queensland on the
eastern sea board and has its own international airport. February is
in the middle of what is known as the 'wet' season. Tropical
downpours are common in the late afternoons and overnight, sometimes
with dramatic lightning displays - but don't let that deter you!
There is a beauty about the monsoonal 'Wet' season and its soothing,
greening effect that is very attractive.
Cairns in sheltered on the coast by the Great Barrier Reef with its
400 kinds of coral and 1,500 types of fish. As well as the Great
Barrier Reef, there are rain
forests in the Atherton Tableland to the
west of Cairns and to the south is Mission Beach with 14km of white
sandy beaches. To the north, there is the charming old town of Port
Douglas as well as the Daintree Rain
forest and its daily barge service
to Cape Tribulation National Park, and Cooktown, close to Endeavour
National Park where excellent examples of Aboriginal rock art can be
found, and beyond that is the wilderness of Cape York Peninsula to explore.
In and around Cairns you will find a lot to do. We highly recommend
that you extend your conference stay and explore this unique area of the world.
We have included an additional day of sightseeing at the end of the
conference on the Kuranda Commentary Train which travels 34km through
steep mountains, tunnels, over bridges, through
forests from Cairns to
Kuranda and will include an Aboriginal cultural show. More details
can be found closer to date on the conference website.
-- INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD --
Bogdan Wilamowski
Leopoldo G Franquelo
Okyay Kaynak
Francesco Nachira
Christian Huemer
Andreas Wombacher
Xinghuo Yu
Fabio Casati
Armando Colombo
Giuseppina Passiante
Prem Chand
Mukesh Mohania
-- GENERAL CHAIRS --
Elizabeth Chang - Curtin University of Technology, Australia Ernesto
Damiani
- University of Milan, Italy
-- TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR --
Tharam Dillon - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
-- TECHNICAL PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS --
Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
William Gardner - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
-- CONFERENCE MANAGER --
Sonya Rosbotham
CEEBI, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
dest@cbs.curtin.edu.au
Curtin University of Technology
PO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845
AUSTRALIA
T: + 61 8 9266 7684
F: + 61 8 9266 7548
E:
Sonya.rosbotham@cbs.curtin.edu.au
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