Call for Papers: 31st IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2022)

29 June - 1 July, 2022 in Stuttgart, Germany
https://wetice2022.svccomp.de/

WETICE is an annual International conference on state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration, consisting of a main track and number of special tracks. Established thirthy years ago, WETICE aims at promoting fruitful discussions on the latest technology developments, directions, problems, and requirements. The main and special tracks include paper presentations and group discussions while the keynote sessions and summary of discussions take place in joint sessions. WETICE welcomes papers on "work-in-progress" from the Ph.D. students. All papers are refereed by the Scientific Review of Committee. Proceedings will included into IEEE Xplore and will be submitted for indexing through INSPEC, Compendex, and Thomson Reuters, DBLP, Google Scholar, and EI Index.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Business Process Management
Collaborative Business Processes
Distributed Business Processes
Process Mining
Workflow Automation

Collaboration
Cloud Computing for Collaboration
Collaboration in Digital Strategies
Collaboration in Legal service,
Collaborative and Distributed Learning Platforms
Collaborative Supply Chain Management
Copyright protection in Collaborative Process

Data and its Science
Distributed Database Technologies
Data analytics and fraud detection
Data for collaborative processes
Data privacy, anonymity and confidentiality
Data visualisation and analytics

Distributed Systems Theory
Consensus and Fault Tolerance Algorithms
Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
Distributed Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols
Distributed Trust
Formal verification and model checking

Distributed Systems Infrastructure
Blockchain-based Applications and Services
Blockchain Platforms and Smart Contracts
Decentralized Application Development
Decentralized Internet Infrastructure
Peer-to-peer communication protocols and systems
Performance and Scalability Issues

Internet of Things and Cyberphysical Systems
Internet of Things Enabled Collaboration
Distributed Platforms for IoT

Systems Engineering
Architecture, scalability, governance and interoperability
Monitoring and Analysis
Service-Orientation in Systems Engineering

Applications and Case Studies
Healthcare Systems
Human-Robot Collaboration
Intelligent Manufacturing Platforms
Logistics and Intralogistics
Regulatory and standards frameworks
Smart Energy Systems


General Chairs
· Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
· Layth Sliman, EFREI Paris, France

Program Committee Chair
· Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

Board of Directors
· Ramana Reddy, Chairman of the Board, West Virginia University, USA
· Giacomo Cabri, President of the Board, University of Modena, Italy
· Sumitra Reddy, IEEE Liaison and Proceedings Editor, West Virginia University, USA
· Andrea D’Amborgio, Advisor, University of Roma II, Italy
· Samir Tata, Advisor, LG Labs, USA
· Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS and Univ Toulouse, France
· Layth Sliman, Advisor, Efrei Paris, France

Publicity Chair
· Viktoriya Degeler, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Web Chair
· Brian Setz, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Local Organization Chairs
· Ilche Georgievski, University of Stuttgart, Germany
· Kawsar Haghshenas, University of Stuttgart, Germany


Important Dates
Submission (updated!) March 11th, 2022
Notification of acceptance (updated!) April 1st, 2022
Camera Ready Deadline May 6th, 2022
Early Registration Deadline May 6th, 2020
Conference June 29th—July 1st, 2022