[Tccc] CFP - BDIM 2010 International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management

Call for Papers

5th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM
2010)
In conjunction with NOMS 2010
12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan, April 19th, 2010
http://www.businessdrivenitmanagement.org/bdim2010/

The fifth edition of the BDIM workshop builds on the success of the first four
editions, that were held in conjunction with NOMS 2006, IM 2007, NOMS 2008, and
IM 2009. BDIM 2010 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business-driven IT management by inviting complete, original, unpublished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:

Topic Areas

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

Business Objectives, Processes and SLM

-Business process modeling for IT management
-Business-driven Service Level Management
-Business-driven dynamic provisioning
-Business-driven inventory 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

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

-E-commerce, e-business and relation to IT infrastrcutures
-Services infrastructures and QOS concerns (MTBF, MTTR, Response times, latency
etc) that have customer impact

Submissions

We are seeking submissions for full papers (8 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 be
included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Submissions are to be uploaded at https://jems.sbc.org.br/bdim2010

Important dates

-Submission deadline: January 4, 2010
-Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2010
-Final camera-ready papers due: February 19, 2010
-BDIM2010 Workshop: April 19, 2010

Organizing Committee

Workshop co-chairs

-Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA)
-Kamal Bhattacharya, (IBM Research - India)
-Jacques Sauvé (UFCG, Brazil)

Publicity chair

-Carlos Becker Westphall (USFC, Brazil)

Proposed program committee (to be confirmed)

-Issam Aib (University of Waterloo, Canada)
-Virgilio Almeida (UFMG, Brazil)
-Arosha Bandara (Imperial College, UK)
-Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
-Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM Research, USA)
-Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
-Mark Burgess (University College Oslo, Norway)
-Ealan Henis (IBM Research TJ Watson, USA)
-Lalana Kagal (MIT, USA)
-Alexander Keller (IBM Global Services, USA)
-Jeff Kephart (IBM Research TJ Watson, USA)
-Lundy Lewis (Southern New Hampshire University, USA)
-Antonio Liotta (Essex University, UK)
-Hanan Luftiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
-Zoran Milosevic (Deontik, Australia)
-Naftaly Minsky (Rutgers University, USA)
-Antão Moura (UFCG, Brazil)
-Pradeep Kr. Ray (University of New South Wales, Australia)
-Sharad Singhal (HP Labs, USA)
-John Strassner (Motorola Labs, USA)
-Vladimir Tosic (University of New South Wales, Australia)
-Joseph Weiss (Bentley College, USA)
-John Wilkes (HP Labs, USA)