CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2007

Accepted Chapters Deadline: July 31, 2007

Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications

A book edited by Dr. Roberto García, Universitat de Lleida, Spain

Update

The book is already published:

Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications  García, R. (ed.) IGI Global, 2008 ISBN 978-1-60566-066-0 Table of Contents Preface Brochure

Introduction

The Semantic Web is starting to show its practical benefits and one key application domain, where it can show its potential with great impact, is E-Business. The main opportunities are anticipated in information systems interoperation and range from inter to intra-organizational links. For instance, one of the main promises is that the Semantic Web can help develop a webbed economy where, in spontaneous inter-organizational relations, the involved parties share data and integrate their internal business processes in a transparent and trustful way.

The Overall Objective of the Book

The objective is to compile a reference reading that encourages and facilitates the transfer of technologies and methodologies from the Semantic Web to the E-Business world. In order to do that, each book chapter would constitute an illustrative Business Case for a specific kind of organizational information system or a cross-organizations solution for a specific market. The idea is to produce a reading more appealing to IT managers that, a part from technological and methodological benefits, sketches a costs and benefits analysis showing that the Semantic Web is prepared to do business.

The Target Audience

The audience of the proposed book is IT professionals, IT researchers, business executives, consultants and students (undergraduate, graduate, PhD and MBA).

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Enhanced organisation management through ontologies

Business integration using web ontologies

Semantic Web services for business process automation

Semantics-enhanced CRM

Recommendation systems and social networks

Multimedia content management and digital rights management

Agent-mediated negotiation

Product and service personalisation

Semantic Web rules for business policies, planning, forecasting...

Human resources management

Organisational knowledge management

Workflow management through Semantic Web services

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 15, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 31, 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

Dr. Roberto García

Universitat de Lleida

Jaume II, 69. E-25001 Lleida, Spain

Tel.: +34 973 702 742 • Fax: +34 973 702 702 • GSM: +34 660 869 308

E-mail: rgarcia at diei dot udl.es