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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The GII Doctoral School in Computer Engineering Boosting Services and
       Information in Adaptive Networked Enterprises

September, 3- 12, 2008, L'Aquila, Italy http://gii2008.dei.polimi.it/

 Co-located with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on
          Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008
         http://www.di.univaq.it/ase2008/)

          Deadline for registration: July 25, 2008
Registration is opened to doctoral students in Computer Engineering
          and Computer Science at no cost.

The goals of flexibility and globalization force enterprises to both
decentralize their activities and continuously (re)structure their
network of relationships, both regarding their productive "supply
chain" as well as their design and innovation processes. Such networks
maximize the level of confidence of each player and its willingness to
cooperate, by distinguishing between knowledge that can be shared and
knowledge that should be protected since it pertains to an individual
player. In this context, identifying the basic determinants affecting
the establishment of reliable and effective networks becomes crucial.
To pursuit such results, the school is divided into four main courses,
arranged in three half-day sessions, and a project work. See Program &
Timetable for details http://gii2008.dei.polimi.it/. All the lessons
will be held in English.

• Organization and business models for networked enterprises: Modeling cooperative/competitive processes between the actors of the supply chain in the networked enterprise and the external actor sources of innovation. This course, coordinated by E. Bellini (Università del Sannio), will feature speeches from academic and industrial researchers, and a panel session that will trigger the students' interest toward the main topics of the school.

• Acquisition, modeling and automatic management of business knowledge derived from heterogeneous sources, including natural language: Methodologies and tools able to identify, elicit, and represent knowledge (often tacit) where it manifests its relevance for the network. The school will focus on the problems of finding, extracting, representing and formalizing knowledge, in all various forms in which it may be embedded (in particular, natural language) in order to build a semantic model (via ontologies) of the business domains of networked enterprises. Speakers: L. Palopoli (Università della Calabria), L. Sbattella and L. Tanca (Politecnico di Milano).

• Autonomic and reconfigurable systems: The flexibility requirements of the networked enterprises demand new innovative solutions for the technological infrastructure, which must support unprecedented levels of dynamicity. The overall architecture must evolve as requirements and context change and as new components or services become available. As soon as deviations are discovered from the desired or acceptable quality of service offered by the information system, it should be able to reconfigure itself in an autonomic manner. Speakers: G. Canfora (Università del Sannio), C. Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano), P. Inverardi (Università dell'Aquila), F. Saffre (BT), E. Zimeo (Università del Sannio).

• Technological autonomic pervasive infrastructure, based on smart peripheral devices (Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID): Autonomic behaviors require domain specific knowledge on the business logic to be always available in a fully distributed and pervasive manner. A fully distributed information system, based on a middleware supporting peer-to-peer architectures, is needed. The information system must also include intelligent peripheral systems which interact with the physical world via pervasive devices such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and intelligent tags (RFIDs). Speakers: M. Avvenuti (Università di Pisa), L. Mottola and F. A. Schreiber (Politecnico di Milano), E. Tovar (to be confirmed).

• Project work coordinator: E. Zimeo (Università del Sannio).

The school is held in the context of the ArtDeco project. The project
will address important open problems in all the aforementioned areas
(from the models of networked enterprises to knowledge discovery and
management to the autonomic infrastructure and agile development
processes). The grand challenge, however, will be in the integration
of the different areas in a coherent framework: trying both to give
answers to the needs for flexibility, autonomy, and decentralization,
on the one side, and to guarantee the levels of quality that the
business process demands. At the same time, providing solutions that
reduce costs and provide measurable improvements in the efficiency and
effectiveness of networked enterprises.

Scientific Committee

Paola Inverardi (University of L'Aquila)
Mauro Pezzè (University of Milano Bicocca)
Paolo Prinetto (Politecnico di Torino)
Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano), school director
Giuseppe Visaggio (University of Bari)

Organization

Organizing committee:
Emilio Bellini (University of Sannio)
Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano)
Giuseppe Lipari (School of Advanced Studies St Anna)
Fabio A. Schreiber (Politecnico di Milano)
Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano)
Roberto Tedesco (Politecnico di Milano)
Eugenio Zimeo (University of Sannio)

Committee for local organization:
Serafino Cicerone (University of l'Aquila)
Gabriele Di Stefano (University of l'Aquila)
Daniele Frigioni (University of l'Aquila)
Michele Flammini (University of l'Aquila)
Alfonso Pierantonio (University of l'Aquila)