I-ESA 2012

I-ESA’12 (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) was the sixth edition of the conference, after Geneva (2005), Bordeaux (2006), Madeira (2007), Berlin (2008) and Coventry (2010), plus a special edition in Beijing (2009). I-ESA has become a key event in Europe in the field of enterprise interoperability.

The conference was held from 20 to 23 March 2012, organised by the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and with the collaboration of AIDIMA. It had 119 attendees.

Pre-conference: 20–21 March 2012

• Doctoral symposium: doctoral students presented their latest thesis work on enterprise interoperability to receive feedback from experts.
• Workshops: 13 specialised sessions with 58 presentations and many debates on the state of enterprise interoperability.
• IFIP WG 5.8 meeting: on 20 March, in parallel with the doctoral symposium, the annual meeting of IFIP Working Group 5.8 Enterprise Interoperability defined new research lines and future work.

Conference: 22–23 March 2012

• Opening ceremony: chaired by the Vice-Rector for Research of the Universitat Politècnica de València, Amparo Chiralt, and by the conference chairs, Professor Raúl Poler (Universitat Politècnica de València) and Professor Emeritus Guy Doumeingts (University of Bordeaux).
• Plenary sessions with five invited speakers: Gerald Santucci (Head of the “Internet of Things and Future Internet Enterprise Systems” Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission), Howard Manson (Corporate Information Standards Manager, BAE Systems, UK), Claudi Guglielmina (Project Director, Corporate Research Unit, TXT, Italy), Michel Byvoet (founder and CEO of Bivolino) and Carmen Marcos (international projects expert at the R&D&I Office of the Valencian Community, OPIDI-CV, IMPIVA).
• Sessions: 10 sessions with 40 papers by researchers, academics and practitioners.
• Closing ceremony: awards for the best paper of the doctoral symposium and of the conference were presented, and the next edition was announced for Lille (France) in 2014.