Call For Papers: Computers in Industry, Special Issue on “Sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises”

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Guest editors: Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves (UNINOVA, Portugal) and Keith Popplewell (University of Coventry, UK)

This special issue seeks to bring together novel contributions in a scientific-based perspective on methods and tools to support the sustainability of interoperable ICT systems in the advent of the future internet based industrial enterprises. Focal topics are within, but not restricted to:

• Reference ICT architectures, methodologies and tools to support sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises
• Novel contributions in the area of sustainable interoperability, e.g., enterprise interoperability dynamics and its transient analysis; networked enterprise systems management; behavior monitoring and adaptability strategies; collaboration and coordination facilities; impact of changing requirements and information models in interoperable environments; interoperability of digital ecosystems as “complex systems of systems”.
• Case studies of relevant applications to support sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises

Contributions are expected from researchers and practitioners who are investigating and developing beyond the state of the art on the definition and applicability of sustainable interoperability in future internet based industrial enterprises, and placing new trends in, and novel proposals for the use of Information and Communication Technology in industry, in a scientific-based or applied research perspective.

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Foreseen publication date: March 1st, 2012

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