AMCIS 2007@KEYSTONE -- CONFERENCE TRACK(MINI TRACK)

Enabled by the recent advances in web services, business process automation, and service-oriented architectures, organizations around the world have embarked on the development of the next-generation enterprise infrastructures, referred to by some as "Service-Oriented Enterprises". Essentially, service-oriented enterprises are organizations that take advantage of service-oriented computing to support agile enterprise changes. Gartner has defined enterprise agility as "the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change." Currently, there are many open research issues that need attention from the MIS community. This minitrack provides a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in presenting their work in this area with regard to technologies, architectures, algorithms, languages, best practices, methodologies, and frameworks that enable agile enterprises. The suggested topics are found in, although not limited to, the following list:

The mini-track will focus on:

· Agility enabling technologies and architectures in modern enterprises

· Analysis and design of business services

· Best practices in service-oriented architectures

· Business modeling in service-oriented enterprises

· Centrality of information in service-oriented enterprises

· Componentization of businesses

· Cost estimation and pricing for service-based projects and applications

· Empirical studies in business process automation

· Enterprise services for business process automation

· Grid workflow modeling and development

· Innovative paradigms and techniques in support of flexible business processes

· Integrated knowledge work and document distribution

· Knowledge infrastructure in workflow management

· Language issues in service-oriented computing

· Modeling of process services

· Modular service composition (or enterprise service mash-ups)

· Open source software adoption in service-oriented computing

· Promotion, sale, and distribution of service-based applications

· Service level agreement and service quality management

· Service modeling and catalog management

· Service-oriented system analysis and design techniques

· Service reuse in application development

· Techniques and algorithms in service-oriented computing

· Tools and methods for ad hoc workflow

· Web service composition in support of collaboration

Selected papers from the minitrack will be invited to submit to a Special Issue of Service-Oriented Enterprises and Architectures in such journals as International Journal of Web Services Research, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, or International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management.