CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION TO A BOOK
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Technologies supporting business solutions
Corchuelo R., Ruiz Cortés A., Wrembel R. (eds.)
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The aim of this book is to present the research that is being carried out 
at universities and in industries to solve the problems related to the 
construction of business applications using object-oriented technology, 
focusing on real-world industrial experiences and projects, as well as 
innovative infrastructures for building e-commerce solutions. The book 
aims also at developing a framework for better understanding the application 
of research achievements in modern business solutions like e-commerce, 
database technology, data integration, and data analysis.
TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* New trends: web services, advanced multiparty interaction models, 
  m-commerce, web-based services for federated systems, electronic 
  contacts, automated building of Service Level Agreements;
* Electronic contracts: Service Level Agreements (SLAs), requirements 
  elicitation, automated and semi-automated negotiation, monitoring;
* Agents: personalization, information retrieval, data mining;
* Multidisciplinary integration: multimedia, adaptive user interfaces, 
  intelligent agents;
* Application of object-oriented and object-relational databases in 
  business;
* New platforms: Microsoft .NET, Sun One, IBM Web Sphere;
* Use of standard frameworks such as eCO, OBI, OTP or BBEC, focussing 
  on the object-oriented technology used to put them in practice;
* Run-time extensions of middlewares (CORBA, SunOne, .NET) for supporting 
  web-based federated systems and quality-aware systems.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The papers should not exceed 15 standard A4 pages (Times New Roman 11 pts., 
12 pts. interline space) and should be e-mailed either as Word or PDF or 
PostScript documents to: Robert.Wrembel@cs.put.poznan.pl
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: April 30, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2002 
Camera-Ready Paper Due: June 30, 2002
REVIEWING
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All proposals will be reviewed by three members of the scientific and the 
industrial committees. In order to ensure that only the high-quality 
contributions are published in the book, all  proposals will be assigned to 
these PC members who have the broadest experience in the field. The proposals 
will be reviewed according to their originality, relevance to the topics of 
interest, presentation, significance to research, and correctness. 
PUBLISHING
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Accepted papers will be published in a book in the "Advances in Computation: 
Theory and Practice" - ACTP series (http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~actp/), 
by Nova Science Books and Journals, New York, USA.
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Bartosz Bebel
Instytut Informatyki           Institute of Computing Science
Politechniki Poznañskiej       Poznan University of Technology
ul. Piotrowo 3A                ul. Piotrowo 3A
60-965 Poznan                  60-965 Poznan, POLAND
e-mail: Bartosz.Bebel@cs.put.poznan.pl
tel.  : +48 61 665 25 29
        +48 61 665 20 09
fax   : +48 61 877 15 25
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