Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems

The idea for this conference came from a meeting of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee for Information Systems (TC8) in Guimares, Portugal in June 2005. Our goal is to build an IFIP forum among the different Information Systems Communities of TC8 dealing with the increasing important area of Enterprise Information Systems. In this particular meeting the committee members intensively discussed the innovative and unique characteristics of Enterprise Information Systems as scientific sub-discipline. Hence, in this meeting it was decided by the TC8 members that the IFIP TC8 First International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2006) would be held in April 2006 in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Li Xu (USA) and Dr. A Min Tjoa (IFIP TC8) were assigned to propose a concept for this conference in order to establish an IFIP platform for EIS researchers and practitioners in the field to share experience, and discussing opportunities and challenges. We are very pleased therefore to have this conference organised by the help of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). OCG supports the idea of this conference due to the urgent need of research and dissemination of new techniques in this key area. We received 180 papers from more than 30 countries for CONFENIS and the Program Committee eventually selected xx papers or extended abstracts, making an acceptance rate of xx% of submitted papers. Each paper was thoroughly reviewed by at least two qualified reviewers.

Self-organizing model for virtual enterprises.- A Spatio-temporal Database System Based on Timed and Oracle Spatial.- Context-Aware Ubiquitous Service Composition Technology.- Continual Business Transformation Technology.- A UML 2 Profile for Event Driven Process Chains.- Particle Model to Optimize Enterprise Computing.- Enterprise Information Integration.- Value-Oriented IT Project Portfolio Management.- Enterprise Information Systems for Large-Scale Engineering Projects.- Studies of Enterprises' Modularization Decomposition.- A Multi-Layer Framework for Enterprise Application Development.- Critical Success Factors for ERP Deployments.- Mappings from OWL-S to UML for Semantic Web Services.- A Tourism Resources Integration Mechanism Based on XML and Web Service.- Skeleton of a Supervisor for Enterprise Information Systems.- OSS and ERP Systems: Likeness, Difference, and Reference.- An E-Activities Platform to Support SMES.- A Data Collector for Route Inspection Based on Palm Handheld in Industry.- Study on Information Integration of Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis System in Manufacturing.- Critical Success Factors for ERP Life Cycle Implementation.- The Influence of Knowledge Transfers on the Implementation of Enterprise Information System.- An Open Web Service-Based DSS.- A Hidden Markov Model of Customer Relationship Dynamics in Retailing Industry.- Study on Purchase Probability Model in CRM Systems.- Issues on Evaluating Free/Open Source ERP Systems.-Study on the Game of Payment Distribution Mode About AVES.- Analysis of M-Commerce in China.