Call for Papers

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Third IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on
Business-driven IT Management (BDIM 2008)
In conjunction with IEEE
Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, April 7th, 2008

http://www.businessdrivenitmanagement.org/bdim2008/

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aims to continue building the community of researchers in business-driven IT management by inviting complete, original, unpublished contributions in the following, or related topic areas:

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 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 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)

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.

Submissions are to be uploaded at https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2008_bdim2008

Submission deadline: Jan 11, 2008 Jan 20, 2008
Notification of acceptance: Feb 15, 2008 Feb 25, 2008
Camera-ready version: Feb 22, 2008 Mar 03, 2008
Workshop: April 7, 2008

• Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA)
• Akhil Sahai (HP Labs, USA)
• Jacques Sauvé (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

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

Arosha Bandara (The Open University, UK)
Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs)
Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Michael Brenner (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
Mark Burgess (University College Oslo, Norway)
Sandro Etalle (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Andreas Hanemann (German Research Network, Germany)
Jeff Kephart (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Lundy Lewis (Southern New Hampshire University, USA)
Antonio Liotta (Essex University, UK)
Heiko Ludwig (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Christian Mayerl (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Antão Moura (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
Adrian Paschke (Technical University Munich, Germany)
Pradeep Ray (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rodrigo Rebouças (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
Akhil Sahai (HP Labs, USA)
Jacques Philippe Sauvé (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany)
Sharad Singhal (HP Labs, USA)
John Strassner (Motorola, USA)
David Trastour (HP Labs, UK)
Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)