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Fourth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on
Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2009)
In conjunction with 11th IFIP/IEEE
International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009)
Long Island, New York, USA at Hofstra University, June 1st, 2009

http://www.businessdrivenitmanagement.org/bdim2009/

The fourth edition of the BDIM workshop builds on the success of the first three editions, held in conjunction with NOMS 2006, IM 2007 and NOMS 2008. BDIM 2009 aims to continue building the community of researchers in business-driven IT management by inviting complete, original, unpublished contributions in the following, or related topic areas:

Topics

BDIM impact on Emerging technologies

BDIM and SaaS
BDIM and Cloud Computing

Models for measuring/estimating business-IT alignment

Models for IT faults and performance degradations
Data mining techniques for impact model construction
Modeling of business operations and their relationships to IT
Modeling of business strategies and their relationships to IT
Modeling IT risk and IT-related business risk- Software tools for Business-driven IT management
Semantic web models for business-IT alignment

Decision support for IT Management from a business perspective

Business-driven IT optimization problems
Business-driven IT planning and decision-making
IT actions to enhance/optimize business performance

Automation for IT Management from a business perspective

Adaptive/autonomic computing from a business perspective
Automated IT management solutions from a business perspective
IT lifecycle and Service Level Management

Business Objectives, Processes and SLM

Business process modeling for IT management
Business-driven Service Level Management
Business-driven dynamic provisioning
Business-driven portfolio management
Business continuity management and its impact on IT
Accounting, Billing, Chargeback and linkages to business objectives
IT Governance, ITSM, COBIT
Business objectives and their impact on new IT paradigms like utility/grid computing
IT Financial Management

Case studies in Business-driven IT management (in e-commerce, messaging, …)

E-commerce, e-business and relation to IT infrastructures
Impact of Software As a Service (SaaS) paradigm on BDIM
Services infrastructures and QOS concerns (MTBF, MTTR, Response times, latency etc.) that have customer impact)

Submissions:

We are seeking submissions for full papers (10 pages on 2-columns IEEE style) and short papers presenting position statements or preliminary results on relevant work (4 pages on 2-columns IEEE style). All selected works will appear in the proceedings in an IEEE Press volume with assigned ISBN number and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. All the submitted papers will be qualified for the best paper award.

Submissions are to be uploaded at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=834

Important dates:

Submission deadline:
January 26, 2009
Notification of acceptance:
March 2, 2009
Camera-ready version:
March 16, 2009
Workshop:
June 1, 2009

Organizing committee:

Workshop co-chairs

Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA)
Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Jacques Sauvé (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

Publicity chair

Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Technical program committee

(to be confirmed)

Bandara, Arosha (The Open University)
Bartolini, Claudio (HP Laboratories)
Bhattacharya, Kamal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Boutaba, Raouf (University of Waterloo)
Brenner, Michael (MNM Team)
Burgess, Mark (Oslo University College)
Chadha, Ritu (Telcordia)
Etalle, Sandro (Eindhoven Technical University)
Gaspary, Luciano (UFRGS)
Ghamri, Yacine (Doudane LRSM - ENSIIE)
Granville, Lisandro (UFRGS)
Graupner, Sven (HP Laboratories)
Hanemann, Andreas (Leibniz Supercomputing Center)
Keller, Alexander (IBM Global Technology Services)
Lewis, Lundy (Southern New Hampshire University)
Liotta, Antonio (University of Essex)
Ludwig, Heiko (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Lutfiyya, Hanan (University of Western Ontario)
Mayerl, Christian (Universität Karlsruhe (TH))
Moura, Antão (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)
Oliveira, José Augusto (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)
Paschke, Adrian (Technical University Dresden)
Ray, Pradeep (UNSW)
Rebouças, Rodrigo (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)
Sauvé, Jacques (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)
Schaaf, Thomas (MNM Team)
Shwartz, Larisa (IBM T.J. Watson Research)
Singhal, Sharad (HP Laboratories)
Strassner, John (MDAPCE.com)
Tosic, Vladimir (NICTA)
Trastour, David (HP Laboratories)
Ward, Christopher (IBM)
Weiss, Joseph (Bentley College)
Westphall, Carlos (Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina)
Wilkes, John (Google)

Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2009)
In conjunction with 11th IFIP/IEEE
International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009)
Long Island, New York, USA at Hofstra University, June 1st, 2009