Topics of Interest

ESBEâ??08 welcomes research submissions on all topics related to business models for services and their enablers, including but not limited to those listed below.

* Principles, theories, and challenges of business models for services ecosystems
* Architectures, implementations, and deployment issues of business models for services ecosystems
* Business models Requirements Specification
* Formal methods for business concepts applied to services
* Business models aware service selection and discovery
* Business models aware service composition
* Service Level Agreements, Policies, Contracts and their relation to business models
* Negotiation and Contracting
* Contract Monitoring and Enforcement
* Compliance to Business Policies
* Risk Management in service ecosystems
* Copyrights, Moral rights, Trademarks, Patents, and Services
* Evolution of services and its impact on business models
* Innovative strategies for making and managing service-based organizations
* Pricing models for services and Market structures
* Business concepts in Semantics and Ontologies representation
* Free and Open Source Software Business Models in service ecosystems
* Analyzing business models for service and data mashups
* Software-as-a-service models and Services-as-software models
* Sociological, legal, and technological implications of services
* Real world case studies

We also welcome a stream for short papers for work-in-progress and/or position statements (particularly, from industry).

The workshop also features a panel discussion session, moderated by the co-chairs, to discuss open challenges and trends directly related to the workshop's theme.

Important Dates

Paper submission: October 6, 2008

Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2008

Workshop Date: December 1, 2008