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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: AMCIS 2009 Minitrack on "Business Process Automation and Innovation"]
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: AMCIS 2009 Minitrack on "Business Process Automation and Innovation" Datum: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:06:57 -0500 Von: Amit V. Deokar <deokar.amit(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Amit V. Deokar <deokar.amit(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> ======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS 2009 Minitrack on "BPM AND INNOVATION" 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, August 6 - 9, 2009 ======================================================== Minitrack: BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION AND INNOVATION Track: Strategic Use of IT ======================================================== Over the past 15 years attitudes toward business processes have changed significantly within organizations. What started with Total Quality Management initiatives and continued through Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects of the early1990s has evolved into a comprehensive management practice that permeates both the business and the technology side of organizations. Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as methods and tools surrounding the definition, implementation, and improvement of lateral processes in organizations. BPM tools and techniques play a significant role in both intra-organizational and inter-organizational process design. As BPM continues to gain importance in today�s organization, an increasing number of studies detail efficiency, effectiveness and agility improvements resulting from process management initiatives. Innovative industrial implementations and applications of BPM methods and techniques are of much interest today, given their potential for bringing significant gains to the enterprise through the automated coordination of activities, process participants and the integration of applications. This mini-track seeks contributions that discuss the management of business processes as well as technologies for process automation. We encourage submissions from both a managerial as well as a technical perspective. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: -- Business process automation and workflow management systems -- Business process and rule modeling, languages and design patterns -- Strategies for business process design and innovation -- Service-oriented architectures for BPM -- Resource management and capacity planning in BPM -- Information security and assurance in BPM -- Business process monitoring and controlling -- Process mining and its applications -- Business process governance, risk and compliance management -- Management of adaptive and flexible processes -- Management of ad-hoc and collaboration processes -- Management of knowledge-intensive processes -- Formal evaluation of BPM methods and technologies -- BPM adoption and critical success factors -- BPM maturity -- Standardization of BPM, web services and workflow technology -- Industry case studies on BPM technology or BPM applications --- Submission Process --- Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS Manuscript Central submission system, by February 20th 2009. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words. Paper format may be found at: http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/amcis2008/documents/amcis2008_paper_templat… --- Important Dates --- January 2, 2009: Paper submissions begin February 20, 2009: Deadline for paper submissions April 2, 2009: Notification of acceptance April 20, 2009: Camera ready copy due --- Minitrack Chairs --- Amit V. Deokar College of Business and Information Systems Dakota State University Madison, SD 57042 Email: Amit.Deokar [at] dsu.edu Michael zur Muehlen Howe School of Technology Management Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 Email: Michael.zurMuehlen [at] stevens.edu Marta Indulska UQ Business School The University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia Email: M.Indulska [at] business.uq.edu.au --- Further Information --- AMCIS 2009 Conference Website: http://amcis2009.org/ Or contact Minitrack Chairs ======================================================== The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for panels, workshops and tutorials + news about the OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden]
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for panels, workshops and tutorials + news about the OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:56:08 -0500 Von: Kevin Crowston <crowston(a)syr.edu> Antwort an: Kevin Crowston <crowston(a)syr.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> [Apologies for any duplication caused by cross posting] Three short news items regarding the OSS 2009 Conference, Skövde, Sweden: First, a final reminder that proposals can be submitted until 15 December for panels, workshops or tutorials for the 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems. See below for submission instructions. Second, the organizers are happy to announce the keynotes for the conference: Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and Brian Behlendorf, founder of the Apache Software Foundation and of CollabNet. More details about each can be found on the conference website. Finally, we are planning a doctoral consortium to accompany the conference. An announcement with further details will be posted soon, or interested students may contact the conference organizers. Please pass this information on to any students you know who are interested in research on Free/libre open source. Thanks! Final Call for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials - OSS 2009, Skövde, Sweden The 5th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2009) 3-6 June 2009, Skövde, Sweden http://oss2009.his.se/ http://oss2009.org/ Over the past decade, the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software- based services. F/OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has become a useful instrument for educators and researchers as well as an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. F/OSS is a complex phenomenon that requires an interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio- cultural dynamics. The goal of F/OSS 2009 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer. Conference Topics The conference will consist of research papers presentations, workshops, tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of OSS topics, including but not limited to: Software engineering perspectives: Challenges and opportunities * F/OSS architectures, configuration and release management * F/OSS development environments * Testing, assuring and certifying F/OSS quality and security * F/OSS usability, scalability, maintainability and other quality issues * Mining and analyzing F/OSS project repositories * Lessons from F/OSS for conventional development * F/OSS and standards * Open sourcing vs. offshoring of development * F/OSS and agile development * Tools and infrastructures for F/OSS development * Models of reuse * Architectures, patterns, techniques and processes for F/OSS development * F/OSS and distributed development * Documentation of F/OSS projects Emerging perspectives: Lessons from F/OSS applied to other fields * Diffusion and adoption of F/OSS innovations * F/OSS and alternative intellectual property regimes * F/OSS, Open Science and "Open Knowledge" * Licensing, IPR and other legal issues in F/OSS * F/OSS and innovation Social science: Understanding organizational and psychological issues in F/OSS * Diversity and international participation in F/OSS projects * Learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration, control or conflict in F/OSS projects * Dynamics of F/OSS project communities, building and sustaining * F/OSS historical foundations * F/OSS and social networks * F/OSS and social inclusion * Economic analysis of F/OSS * Knowledge management, e-learning and F/OSS Studies of F/OSS deployment: Current studies and future issues * Case studies of F/OSS deployment, migration models, success and failure * F/OSS in the public sector (e.g., government, education, health care) * F/OSS in vertical domains and the 'secondary' software sector (e.g., automotive, telecommunications, medical devices) * F/OSS-compatible IT governance architectures * F/OSS applications catalog (functionality, evaluation, platforms, support providers, training needs) * F/OSS education and training * F/OSS, e-government and transformational government * F/OSS business models and strategies * F/OSS and the one laptop per child initiative Important Deadlines: 15 November 2008: Paper submissions due 15 December 2008: Panel, workshop and tutorial proposals due 15 January 2009: Results to Authors 15 February 2009: Camera ready copy due 3-6 June 2009: F/OSS 2009 Conference in Skövde, Sweden 3 & 6 June 2009: Workshops and Tutorials 4-5 June 2009: Main Conference Instructions For Submission: Submissions are invited for proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels, or demonstrations. Proposals from student researchers are particularly welcome. The official language of the conference is English. Each submission must include a cover page with the full title of the proposal and the names of all participants. The body of the proposal should include title and a brief description of the planned activity. All listed participants should have agreed to participate in the conference. Submissions should be submitted electronically through the conference website. All participants in the accepted panels, workshops or tutorials will be required to register for the conference and to come to the conference to participate. All participants at the conference will be required to register and to pay the registration fee. Conference Officers: General Chair Tony Wasserman, Carnegie-Mellon West, USA, USA Program Chairs Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Lincoln, UK Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA Organizing Chair Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden Advisory committee Brian Fitzgerald, LERO - Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Program committee Pär J. Ågerfalk, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrea Bonaccorsi, Universita' di Pisa, Italy Andrea Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK Antonio Cerone, United Nations University, Macau SAR, China Gabriella Coleman, New York University, USA Jean Michel Dalle, Marie Curie University, France Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Paul A. David, Stanford/Oxford University, USA/UK Chris DiBona, Google, USA Justin Erenkrantz, Apache Software Foundation, USA Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, MERIT, Netherlands Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Stefan Haefliger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Jean-Luc Hardy, Eurocontrol, France Ewa Huebner, University of Western Sydney, Australia Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitat München, Germany James Herbsleb, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA James Howison, Syracuse University/CMU, USA Chris Jensen, University of California, Irvine, USA Stefan Koch, University of Economics and BA, Austria Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria, South Africa Jean Pierre Laisne, OW2, France Greg Madey, Notre Dame University, USA Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium Pentti Marttin, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland Martin Michlmayr, HP Austria Steven Muegge, Carleton University, Canada Mahmoud R. Nasr, Middlesex University, UK John Noll, Santa Clara University, USA Bülent Özel, Instanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Paolo Massimo Pumilia-Gnarini, Animat Association, Italy Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs, USA Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Francesco Rullani, Copenaghen Business School, Denmark Craig Russell. Sun, USA Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA Barbara Scozzi, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Gregory Simmons, University of Ballarat, Australia Sandra Slaughter, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Robert Sutor, IBM, USA Megan Squire, Elon University, USA Frank van der Linden, Philips, The Netherlands Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Web Master Henrik Gustavsson, University of Skövde, Sweden IFIP Working Group on Open Source Software - IFIP WG 2.13: http://www.ifipwg213.org/ The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. 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[Fwd: [isworld] Call for Papers: AOM 2009 Annual Meeting OCIS Division]
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Call for Papers: AOM 2009 Annual Meeting OCIS Division Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:01:46 -0500 Von: Pike, Jacqueline Crystal <JPike(a)katz.pitt.edu> Antwort an: Pike, Jacqueline Crystal <JPike(a)katz.pitt.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (OCIS) 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting August 7-11, 2009 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A http://ocis.aomonline.org http://meeting.aomonline.org/2009/ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: January 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM EST Review Deadline: February 13, 2009 Status Notification: April 10, 2009 Program Chair: Brian Butler, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh ocis2009(a)katz.pitt.edu Submission Website: http://submissions.aomonline.org/2009/ Information about the New Meeting Design: http://meeting.aomonline.org/2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article… What to Submit: OCIS invites the submission of innovative empirical or conceptual papers and symposia on all themes of interest to the Academy that touch on organizational communications and/or information systems. Topics that are specifically oriented to the 2009 all-Academy theme of "Green Management Matters" are especially encouraged. This year's theme encourages reflection on the role that communication and information technology plays in shaping the way individuals, organizations, and society interact with the environment. OCIS focuses on the study of behavioral, economic, and social aspects of communication and information systems within and among organizations or institutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Interpersonal communication; * Verbal, nonverbal, and electronic communication; * Vertical, horizontal and diagonal communication; * Inter-group and intra-group communication; * Communication networks; * Applications of information technology in business and society; * Organizational adoption of communication and information technology; * Communication and information strategy and policy; * Communication and organizational culture; * Communication and information research methodology; * Managing information technology services; * Virtual teams, virtual work, and virtual organizations; * The management of information systems professionals; * E-communications; information systems development; * Managing IT-related organizational change; * E-business, e-commerce, and e-markets; * Electronic value systems, value chains, and value webs; * Privacy and ethics; * Knowledge work, knowledge workers, and knowledge networks; * IT infrastructure; governance of IT services; * Organizational networks. Submission Guidelines: The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document using one of the following formats: Portable Document Format (.PDF), Microsoft Word 2003 or later (.DOC) , and Rich Text Format (.RTF) and should not exceed 40 pages. The format for tables and figures, references, and appendices should follow the Academy of Management Journal's Style Guide. Additional information is available at the meeting website, http://meeting.aomonline.org/2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article… . For more information, please contact: Brian Butler OCIS Program Chair Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh ocis2009(a)katz.pitt.edu The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] CFP: EMMSAD'09]
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: EMMSAD'09 Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:42:21 -0500 Von: Keng Siau <ksiau(a)unlnotes.unl.edu> Antwort an: Keng Siau <ksiau(a)unlnotes.unl.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> First Call for Papers EMMSAD�2009 Fourteenth International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD�09) http://www.emmsad.org Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8-9 June, 2009 (held in conjunction with CAiSE�09 ) Submissions due: 18 February 2009 Sponsors: Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1) Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS-SIGSAND) INTEROP Vlab North Pole IFIP WG8.1 (http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/ifip81/) has supported EMMSAD since 1997. The European INTEROP Network of Excellence (http://interop.aquitaine-valley.fr/) and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (http://nfp.cba.utulsa.edu/bajaja/Sigsand/ ) have been supporters since 2005. As of 2007, EMMSAD is officially linked to the CAiSE conference series on a regular basis. Background: The field of information systems analysis and design includes numerous evolving information modeling methods, notations and approaches (e.g. ER, ORM, UML, BPMN, DSM). Even with some attempts to standardize (e.g. UML for object-oriented design), new modeling methods are being introduced, many of which differ only marginally from existing approaches. These ongoing changes significantly impact the way information systems are being analyzed and designed in practice. The EMMSAD events focus on exploring, evaluating, and enhancing current information modeling methods and methodologies. Though the need for such studies is well recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. The objective of EMMSAD�09 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in modeling methods in systems analysis and design to meet, and exchange research ideas and results. It also provides the participants an opportunity to present their research papers and experience reports, and to take part in open discussions. EMMSAD�09 is the 14th in a very successful series of events, previously held in Heraklion, Barcelona, Pisa, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Interlaken, Toronto, Velden, Riga, Porto, Luxembourg, Trondheim and Montpellier. Topics of Interest: Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) theoretical and/or empirical or case-based exploration of modeling methods and methodologies in a systems analysis and design context. The topics of interest include general modeling issues such as: � Modeling languages � The process of modeling � Quality of models & modeling approaches � The reasons for modeling and their impact on the modeling languages and processes � Experiences in modeling � Theoretical/philosophical foundations of modeling and/or specific strategies for modeling, including (but not limited to): � Active Knowledge Modeling � Agile Modeling � Aspect-Oriented Modeling � Method Engineering � Model-Driven Development and Architecture (MDD-MDA) � Object Oriented Methods and Methodologies � Ontologies and the semantic web � Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) � Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Unified Process (UP) and/or modeling of specific aspects, including (but not limited to): � Business Process Modeling and Improvement � Business Rule Modeling � Database Modeling � Workflow Modeling � E-Business and M-Business Models and Architectures � Enterprise Modeling, Architecture, and Enterprise Governance � Information Modelling (ER, ORM etc.) � Interactive models � Meta-modeling � Requirements modeling � Knowledge Engineering and Management � Modeling of security and trust � User Interface modeling and/or modeling in the context of specific classes of systems, including (but not limited to): � Agent-oriented information systems � Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Integration � Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Systems � Web information systems Important dates (2009): Abstract submission: February 15 Paper submissions: February 18 Notification of acceptance: March 13 Camera-ready copies: March 20 Conference: June 8-9 Submission guidelines: The conference accepts two types of submissions�Completed Research and Research-In-Progress. Completed research papers should include analysis of data and discussion on research findings. Research-in-progress papers report on research that is well under way with preliminary research results available at the time of the conference. � For both types of papers, the paper should not exceed 13 pages using the correct style (including references and appendices). The paper may refer to a theoretical analysis of a scientific challenge, as well as the presentation of a solution to an identified scientific challenge. � The first page should begin with the title of the paper, author names (contact author underlined), affiliations, and e-mail addresses, followed by an abstract of no more than 150 words. � The paper should be formatted according to the Springer LNBIP format Only electronic submissions in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format are accepted. E-mail your abstract (by February 15) to krogstie(a)idi.ntnu.no. Submit the full paper (by February 18) using the conference management system available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emmsad09 or alternatively as an attachment to krogstie(a)idi.ntnu.no Accepted papers will be published in the EMMSAD conference proceedings, which will be provided in the LNBIP series by Springer Verlag, and should use the Springer LNBIP style, see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 . Top papers in the completed research category may also be considered (after extension and enhancement) either for chapters in a book to be edited by the workshop co-chairs, or for journal publications. EMMSAD Steering Committee Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA Terry Halpin Neumont University USA John Krogstie Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology/SINTEF Norway EMMSAD�09 Conference co-chairs: John Krogstie Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology and SINTEF Norway Erik Proper Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands Terry Halpin Neumont University USA International Program Committee : Will van der Aalst Eindhoven University, The Netherlands Antonia Albani Delft University of Technology, NL Annie Becker Florida Institute of Technology, USA Egon Berghout University of Groningen, The Netherlands Giuseppe Berio University of Torino, Italy Nacer Boudjlida Loria, France Sjaak Brinkkemper Utrecht University, The Netherlands Andy Carver Neumont University, USA Olga De Troyer Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mathias Ekstedt KTH, Sweden John Erickson University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA Peter Fettke Institute for Inf. Systems, DFKI, Germany Ulrich Frank University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany Andrew Gemino Simon Fraser University, Canada Gøran Goldkuhl Linkøping University, Sweden Reimingijus Gustas Karlstad University, Sweden Frank Harmsen Capgemini and University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Wolfgang Hesse Philipps � University Marburg, Germany Stijn Hoppenbrouwers Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Jon Iden Norges Handelshøyskole, Bergen, Norway Paul Johanneson Stockholm University, Sweden Pericles Loucopoulos Loughborough University, UK Graham McLeod University of Cape Town, South Africa Jan Mendling Queensland University of Technology, AU Tony Morgan Neumont University, USA Michele Missikoff LEKS, IASI, Italy Sjir Nijssen PNA, The Netherlands Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway Hervé Panetto University Henri Poincaré Nancy I, France Barbara Pernici Politecnico di Milano, Italy Anne Persson University of Skövde, Sweden Michaël Petit University of Namur, Belgium Jolita Ralyté University of Geneva, Switzerland Sudha Ram University of Arizona, USA Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology, AU Colette Rolland University of Paris 1, France Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, AU Matti Rossi Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Kurt Sandkuhl Jönköping University, Sweden Peretz Shoval Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Il Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Janis Stirna KTH, Sweden Johan Versendaal University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Carson Woo University of British Columbia, USA Martin Zelm CIMOSA, Germany Pär Ågerfalk Uppsala University, Sweden For more information, contact John Krogstie IDI, NTNU krogstie(a)idi.ntnu.no Organizing chair EMMSAD�09 For general information about the CAiSE�09 conference, see http://caise09.thenetworkinstitute.eu/ The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] 6th Int'l Conf on IS for Crisis Response and Management, Sweden, May 2009: Submission Site Open]
by Gustaf Neumann 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] 6th Int'l Conf on IS for Crisis Response and Management, Sweden, May 2009: Submission Site Open Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:38:02 -0500 Von: Bartel Van de Walle <bartel(a)uvt.nl> Antwort an: Bartel Van de Walle <bartel(a)uvt.nl> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISCRAM2009: 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management May 10-13 2009 Göteborg, Sweden Paper submission deadline: Sunday January 11, 2009 http://www.iscram.org Join the ISCRAM Facebook group! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, We would like to inform you that the submission system for ISCRAM2009 contributions is now open. Please consider submitting your work - we invite both practitioner presentations and academic research papers. GENERAL TRACKS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Papers for ISCRAM2009 cover all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management, broadly defined but still related to the 10 general tracks, and may take the form of completed research papers, research-in-progress papers as well as practitioner presentations. * Humanitarian Actions and Operations * Collaboration and Social Networking * Human-Computer Interaction * Geo-Information Support * Intelligent Systems * Standardization and Ontologies * Research methods * Technologies, Tools and Demos * Open-track In addition to the above general tracks, there are also 18 special sessions covering specific aspects of this domain. Please have a look at at the ISCRAM Community website (http://www.iscram.org) for detailed information of the tracks and special sessions CFPs. SPECIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES During the ISCRAM 2009 conference there will be numerous special events such as the PhD-colloquium, Workshops, Hands-on Demo Sessions, Poster Sessions and a practitioners side-event. Additional information about these events will be made available at www.iscram.org We are all looking forward to seeing you at ISCRAM 2009 in Gothenburg Sweden. Best regards, Jonas Landgren and Bartel Van de Walle Conference Co-Chairs ISCRAM2009 The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] SIGHCI-Sponsored IJHCI Special Issue on HCI Studies in MIS]
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] SIGHCI-Sponsored IJHCI Special Issue on HCI Studies in MIS Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:07:28 -0500 Von: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah <fnah(a)unlnotes.unl.edu> Antwort an: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah <fnah(a)unlnotes.unl.edu> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI) on Human-Computer Interaction Studies in Management Information Systems. This special issue is sponsored by SIGHCI (http://sigs.aisnet.org/SIGHCI/) and comprises expansions of the best completed research papers from the "HCI in MIS" sessions at the 2007 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction in Beijing, China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SPECIAL ISSUE ON HCI STUDIES IN MIS VOLUME 24, ISSUE 7, FALL 2008 GUEST EDITORS Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xiaowen Fang, DePaul University Traci Hess, Washington State University Weiyin Hong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas PAPERS IN THE SPECIAL ISSUE Special Issue Introduction: Human-computer interaction studies in MIS Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Xiaowen Fang, Traci Hess, Weiyin Hong 1. Two Types of Attitudes in ICT Acceptance and Use Ping Zhang, Shelley N. Aikman, Heshan Sun 2. The Relationship between Mobile Service Quality, Perceived Technology Compatibility, and Users' Perceived Playfulness in the Context of Mobile Information and Entertainment Services Felix B. Tan, Jacky P.C. Chou 3. An Experimental Study of Antecedents and Consequences of Online Ad Intrusiveness Scott McCoy, Andrea Everard, Peter Polak, Dennis F. Galletta 4. Designing Product Lists for E-commerce: The Effects of Sorting on Consumer Decision Making Shun Cai, Yunjie (Calvin) Xu 5. Exploring Multidimensional Conceptualization of Social Presence in the Context of Online Communities Kathy Ning Shen, Mohamed Khalifa Fiona ------------------------------------------------------ Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management Information Systems University of Nebraska-Lincoln 209 College of Business Administration Lincoln, NE 68588-0491 Tel: (402) 472-6060 Fax: (402) 472-5855 Email: fnah(a)unlnotes.unl.edu The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] Third Annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP 2008)]
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Third Annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP 2008) Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:18:03 -0500 Von: Kathleen Greenaway <k.greenaway(a)ryerson.ca> Antwort an: Kathleen Greenaway <k.greenaway(a)ryerson.ca> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> We invite you to attend the Official Annual Workshop of AIS SIG/SEC - Pre�]ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy - will be held on Saturday December 13, 2008 at the Hotel Concorde Lafayette (Meeting Room 1:" DUFFY".) The programme can be accessed at http://www.security-conference.org/sigsec/Schedule.html. WISP 2008 provides an opportunity to hear leading edge esearch, exchange ideas, encourage collaboration, and build community across the various privacy and security research groups. We look forward to seeing you in Paris. Gurpreet Dhillon, Chair, AIS SIGSEC and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information System Security Kathleen Greenaway, Co-Chair WISP 2008, Ryerson University Ruth Halperin, Co-Chair WISP 2008, London School of Economics The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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[Fwd: [isworld] REMINDER: CFP for Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-driven Information Retrieval (ENQOIR 2009)]
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] REMINDER: CFP for Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-driven Information Retrieval (ENQOIR 2009) Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:05:56 +0100 Von: Darijus Strasunskas <darijuss(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Darijus Strasunskas <darijuss(a)gmail.com> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> apologies for cross-posting... ================================================ Call for Paper *** ENQOIR 2009 *** First International Workshop on Aspects in Evaluating Holistic Quality of Ontology-based Information Retrieval To be held with the joint APWeb-WAIM 2009 conferences April 1-4, 2009 | Suzhou, China ================================================ HIGHLIGHTS: - Submissions' cite is opened: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enqoir2009 - Submission deadline: January 5, 2009; - A double-blind review process; - Post-proceedings in LNCS by Springer; - A couple of extended best papers will be considered for publication in a standard issue of ACM JDIQ (Journal of Data and information Quality, ISSN: 1936-1955) - Extended versions of other selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal on Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (ISSN: 1744-2621). The ENQOIR workshop targets to deeper understanding and disseminate knowledge on advances in evaluation and application of ontology-based information retrieval (ObIR). The main areas of the workshop is an overlap between three evaluation aspects in ObIR, namely, evaluation of information retrieval, evaluation of ontology quality's impact on ObIR results, and evaluation of user interaction complexity. The main objective is to contribute to optimization of ObIR by systematizing existing body of knowledge on ObIR and defining a set of metrics for evaluation of ontology- based search. The long-term goal of the workshop is to establish a forum to analyze and proceed towards a holistic evaluation method for evaluation of ontology-driven information retrieval systems. CALL FOR PAPERS: In the recent years, a significant research effort has been devoted to ontology-based information retrieval (ObIR). The progress and results in this area offer a promising prospect to improve performance of current information retrieval (IR) systems. Furthermore, existing sparse evaluations of the ObIR tools report improvement compared to traditional IR systems. However, the results lack indications whether this improvement is optimal, causing difficulties to benchmark different ObIR systems. Yet, majority of IR evaluation methods is mainly based on relevance of retrieved information. While additional sophistication of the ObIR tools adds complexity on user interaction to reach improved results. Therefore, standard IR metrics as recall and precision do not suffice alone to measure user satisfaction because of complexity and efforts needed to use the ObIR systems. We need to investigate what ontology properties can even further enhance IR, to assess whether this improvement comes at a cost of interaction simplicity and user satisfaction, etc. Furthermore, evaluation methods based on recall and precision do not indicate the causes for variation in different retrieval results. There are many other factors that influence the performance of ontology-based information retrieval, such as query quality, ontology quality, complexity of user interaction, difficulty of a searching topic with respect to retrieval, indexing, searching, and ranking methods. The detail analysis on how these factors and their interactions affect a retrieval process can help to dramatically improve retrieval methods or processes. >From other hand, ontology's ability to capture the content of the universe of discourse at the appropriate level of granularity and precision and offer the application understandable correct information is important. An important body of work already exists in ontology quality assessment field. However, most of ontology evaluation methods are generic quality evaluation frameworks, which do not take into account application of ontology. Therefore there is a need for task- and scenario-based quality assessment methods that, in this particular case, would target and optimize ontology quality for use in information retrieval systems. In order to promote more efficient and effective ontology usage in IR, there is a need to contemplate on analysis of ontology quality- and value- added aspects for this domain, summarize use cases and identify best practices. Several issues have been put forward by the current research, like the workload for annotation, the scalability, and the balance between the express power and reasoning capability. An approach to holistic evaluation should assess both technological and economical performance viewpoints. An aspect of value creation by semantics-based systems is important to demonstrate that the benefits of the new technology will overwhelm the payout. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss experiences and lessons learned, identify problems solved and caused, synergize different views, analyse interplay between ontology quality and IR performance, and brainstorm future research/development directions. Particularly, we strongly encourage submissions dealing with ontology quality aspects and their impact on IR results, evaluation of usability of the ObIR systems, analysis of user behaviour, new evaluation methods enabling thorough and fine-grained analysis of ObIR technological and financial performance, etc. TOPICS: All submissions that focus on different aspects of a holistic evaluation of the ontology-based information retrieval are invited. The topics of interest are as follows: - Evaluation of Ontology-based Information Retrieval * Information retrieval evaluation * Assessment of annotation quality/labour-load * Evaluation and benchmarking techniques and datasets * Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods * Cost/ utility ratio - Ontology quality aspects in Information Retrieval * Ontology quality evaluation * Ontology utility * Ontology maintenance * Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods - User acceptance of semantic technology * Usability evaluation * Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods * Evaluation of human-computer interaction SUBMISSIONS: We invite submissions of two types: regular papers, and research in progress papers. Papers are restricted to a maximum length of 12 pages. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in a combined APWeb-WAIM'09 workshops volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer. Papers will be subject to a DOUBLE-BLIND review process by the Program Committee, where both reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the review process. The text of the submitted paper should not reveal the identity of the authors. Submissions for the workshop are handled by Easychair. Use the following link to access the submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enqoir2009 The extended best papers will be considered for publication in a standard issue of ACM JDIQ (Journal on Data and Information Quality, ISSN: 1936-1955). Furthermore, a special issue on Evaluation Aspects of Semantic Search Applications of the International Journal on Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (by Inderscience, ISSN: 1744-2621) containing extended versions of selected papers will be published after the workshop. Please note, that the extensions must be significant accounting for at least 30% difference from the papers published in the workshop proceedings. Preliminary deadline for submission of the extended papers is May, 2009. More details will follow later. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Darijus Strasunskas (Dept. of Industrial Economics & Technology Management, NTNU, Norway) - Stein L. Tomassen (Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NTNU, Norway), - Jinghai Rao (AOL, China). Contact at: enqoir09 [at] gmail.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Per Gunnar Auran (Yahoo! Technologies, Norway) - Xi Bai (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Robert Engels (ESIS, Norway) - Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel) - Jon Atle Gulla (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway) - Sari E. Hakkarainen (Finland) - Monika Lanzenberger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Kin Fun Li (University of Victoria, Canada) - Federica Mandreoli (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) - James C. Mayfield (John Hopkins University, USA) - Gabor Nagypal (disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany) - David Norheim (Computas, Norway) - Jaana Kekalainen (Univ. of Tampere, Finland) - Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK) - Marta Sabou (The Open University, UK) - Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc., Japan) - Amanda Spink (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) - Peter Spyns (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Heiko Stoermer (University of Trento, Italy) - Victoria Uren (The Open University, UK) DATES: January 5, 2009 Submission of papers February 2, 2009 Notification about decision February 20, 2009 Camera-ready versions due April 1, 2009 The workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: http://events.idi.ntnu.no/enqoir09/ enqoir09 [at] gmail.com The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. 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[Fwd: [isworld] ICSE'09: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION]
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] ICSE'09: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:22:57 -0000 (WET) Von: Joao Araujo <ja(a)di.fct.unl.pt> Antwort an: Joao Araujo <ja(a)di.fct.unl.pt> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> CC: isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org ******************************************************************************************************************* 31st International Conference on Software Engineering CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PARTICIPATION VANCOUVER, CANADA May 16th-24th 2009 ******************************************************************************************************************* ICSE 2009 will offer a wide variety of workshops, so please consider submitting a workshop paper. Note that deadlines range from late December to the end of January so you need to move fast! Please double check abstract and/or paper submission deadlines on each workshop's website. The workshops are listed below, however additional information is available at http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/workshops/ Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design Organizers: Mónica Pinto and Ruzanna Chitchyan Website: http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE09 Deadline: Abstract: January 26; Paper: February 02 Meeting Date: May 18 Automation of Software Test Organizers: Paul Strooper, Dimitris Dranidis, and Stephen Masticola Website: http://ast2009.com/ Deadline: January 22 Meeting Date: May 18/19 Comparison and Versioning of Software Models Organizers: Jürgen Ebert, Udo Kelter, and Tarja Systä Website: http://pi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/CVSM09/ Deadline: TBA Meeting Date: May 17 Coooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering Organizers: Cleidson de Souza, Yvonne Dittrich, Helen Sharp, and Janice Singer Website: http://softwareresearch.ca/seg/CHASE2009/ Deadline: January 21 Meeting Date: May 17 Domain Engineering Organizers: Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Arnon Sturm, and Yair Wand Website: http://www.bgu.ac.il/~sturm/DE@ICSE09/ Deadline: December 25 Meeting Date: May 17 Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development Organizers: Andrea Capiluppi and Gregorio Robles Website: http://icse.libresoft.es/ Deadline: January 26 Meeting Date: May 18 Leadership and Management in Software Architecture Organizers: Brian Berenbach and Len Bass Website: http://www.lmsa-community.org/wikis/index.php/Leadership_and_Management_in_… Deadline: January 11 Meeting Date: May 19 Model-Based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software Organizers: João M. Fernandes, Ricardo J. Machado, Flávio R. Wagner, and Luís Lamb Website: http://www.di.uminho.pt/~mompes/2009/ Deadline: January 15 Meeting Date: May 16 Modeling in Software Engineering Organizers: Robert Baillargeon, Robert France, Geri Georg, Bernhard Rumpe, Steven Völkel, and Steffen Zschaler Website: http://wikiserver.sse.cs.tu-bs.de/mise09/index.php/Main_Page Deadline: January 11 Meeting Date: May 17/18 Multicore Software Engineering Organizers: Adam Porter, Victor Pankratius, and Lawrence Votta Website: http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse2009/ Deadline: January 26 Meeting Date: May 18 Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems Organizers: Elisabetta Di Nitto and Schahram Dustdar Website: http://home.dei.polimi.it/dinitto/PESOS2008/ Deadline: January 18 Meeting Date: May 18/19 Search-Driven Development Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation Organizers: Sushil Bajracharya, Adrian Kuhn, and Yunwen Ye Website: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/suite2009/ Deadline: January 28 Meeting Date: May 16 Sharing and Reusing architectural Knowledge Organizers: Patricia Lago, Paris Avgeriou, and Philippe Kruchten Website: www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK2009 Deadline: January 26 Meeting Date: May 16 Socio-Technical Congruence Organizers: Marcelo Cataldo, Daniela Damian, Premkumar Devanbu, Steve Easterbrook, James Herbsleb, and Audris Mockus Website: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhncd3jd_405fzt842gv Deadline: March 3 Meeting Date: May 19 Software Architectures and Mobility Organizers: Rami Bahsoon, Wolfgang Emmerich, Nenad Medvidovic, and Mohamed E. Fayad Website: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rzb/sam09.htm Deadline: January 28 Meeting Date: May 19 Software Development Governance Organizers: Yael Dubinsky and Philippe Kruchten Website: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~yael/SDG2009/ Deadline: January 12 Meeting Date: May 17 Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing Organizers: Kamal Bhattacharya, Martin Bichler, and Stefan Tai Website: http://www.icse-cloud09.org Deadline: January 26 Meeting Date: May 23 Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems Organizers: Hausi Müller, Jeff Magee, Betty Cheng, David Garlan, Holger Giese, Marin Litoiu, and Richard Taylor Website: http://www.seams2009.cs.uvic.ca/ Deadline: January 26 Meeting Date: May 18/19 Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering Organizers: Jeffrey Carver, Steve Easterbrook, Tom Epperly, Michael Heroux, Lorin Hochstein, Diane Kelly, Chris Morris, Judith Segal, and Greg Wilson Website: http://www.cs.ua.edu/~SECSE09 Deadline: January 19 Meeting Date: May 23 Software Engineering for Secure Systems Organizers: Bart De Win, Seok-Won Lee, and Mattia Monga Website: http://homes.dico.unimi.it/~monga/sess09.html Deadline: January 17 Meeting Date: May 19 Software Engineering Foundations for End User Programming Organizers: Dennis Smith, Grace A. Lewis, Len Bass, Brad Myers Website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/isis/workshops/seeup-2009/ Deadline: January 20 Meeting Date: May 23 Software Engineering in Health Care Organizers: Leon J. Osterweil and Barbara Paech Website: http://www-swe.informatik.uni-heidelberg.de/sehc09/index.htm Deadline: January 7 Meeting Date: May 18/19 Software Quality Organizers: Bernard Wong, Barry Boehm, Sunita Chulani, and June Verner Website: http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/icse2009 Deadline: January 19 Meeting Date: May 16 Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering Organizers: Giulio Antoniol, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk Website: http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/tefse09/ Deadline: Abstract: January 19; Paper: January 24 Meeting Date: May 18 Wikis for Software Engineering Organizers: Ademar Aguiar, Paulo Merson, and Uri Dekel Website: http://wikis4se.org Deadline: TBA Meeting Date: May 16 For further information please visit the general ICSE 2009 website at http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/home/ With best wishes Jane Cleland-Huang,PhD Joao Arujo, PhD ICSE 2009 Publicity Chairs The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). 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[Fwd: [isworld] CfP: Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories]
by Gustaf Neumann 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CfP: Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories Datum: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:09:34 +0100 Von: Ulrich Reimer <ulrich.reimer(a)fhsg.ch> Antwort an: Ulrich Reimer <ulrich.reimer(a)fhsg.ch> An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org> Please apologise any cross-postings! Call for Papers The 1st International Workshop on Advanced Enterprise Repositories (AER 2009) 6-7 May, 2009 - Milan, Italy In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009) http://www.iceis.org/ Co-chairs: Aurona Gerber Knowledge Systems Group, Meraka Institute South Africa Knut Hinkelmann University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Paula Kotzé Human Factors and Enterprise Engineering Group, Meraka Institute South Africa Ulrich Reimer Institute for Information and Process Management University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen Switzerland Alta Van der Merwe School of Computing, University of South Africa South Africa Background and Goals An organisation's long-term success heavily depends on the proper management of its business processes. Business process management continuously monitors and improves processes e.g. in terms of cost, quality and duration time. To better support and improve business process management, process repositories are needed that make comprehensive information on processes available and offer elaborate query answering capabilities. Since business processes are intertwined with all the other aspects of an enterprise the process descriptions need to be integrated with the different views and perspectives of an enterprise architecture, including the business motivation, the IT and data perspectives, the organisational units and the business rules: The process repository thus becomes an enterprise repository. Currently, the information in a process repository -- if one exists at all -- is mostly of an informal nature and mainly provides text descriptions and graphics depicting process models. As a consequence, the query answering capabilities of such a repository are quite limited and it can therefore be very cumbersome to find the needed information. Moreover, as only basic information on business processes is modelled, more advanced and business-crucial questions cannot be answered, for example questions about process variability, about reference processes and how actual processes refer to them, or about the design rationales for process implementations. A prominent means to develop more advanced process, resp. enterprise repositories are more expressive representation languages making process information formally explicit and machine understandable. Semantic Web technology aiming at content- oriented ways of querying the Web is an approach that could be applied to enterprise repositories as well. Enriching process descriptions with metadata that is rooted in an underlying ontology would be a first step. Querying can be even further improved by extending the ontology with background knowledge and using reasoning mechanisms to deduce answers to a query which could otherwise not be found. The workshop has the aim to exchange and discuss approaches to advanced process repositories and their extensions into more comprehensive enterprise repositories to give enterprises new and more advanced possibilities of making use of their process knowledge. Topics of Interest We are inviting papers that fall within the scope of the workshop as described above. We are especially interested in papers that address one or more of the following topics: * Architectures and design principles for process repositories. * Advanced representation languages for covering all kinds of process-related information stored in a process repository, such as - models for knowledge intensive processes, - reference models and their instantiations into specific processes, - design rationales for implementing processes, - modelling business rules and their relation to business processes, - dependencies between and constraints on processes, - information needed and produced within processes, - background knowledge needed for carrying out knowledge-intensive tasks, - descriptions of desired and actual process performance (e.g. cost, quality, duration time), - integrated models linking business processes with other perspectives (e.g. data, application systems, services, organisation structure, strategy, business motivation). * Process ontologies for process repositories, allowing analysis, comparison and retrieval of process related information. * Automatic analysis of business process descriptions and their transfer into a structure conforming to a given process ontology. * Query languages for process repositories, including query evaluation and reasoning. * Approaches to representing and querying the mapping between a business view of a process and its actual implementation on top of IT systems. * Business cases and application scenarios for advanced process repositories. Important Dates Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2009 Authors Notification: March 6, 2009 Final Paper Submission and Registration: March 17, 2009 Workshop Program Committee Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany Reinhardt Botha, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Jason Cohen, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Rainer Endl, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Machdel Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa Rainer Telesko, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Barbara Thönssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Holger Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the topics listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris Publications All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support. Registration Information At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop. If the registration fees are not received by March 17, 2009 the paper will not be published in the workshop proceedings book. Secretariat Contacts ICEIS Workshops - AER 2009 e-mail: workshops(a)iceis.org -- Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrich Reimer University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen Institute for Information and Process Management Head of Research and Technology Transfer Teufener Strasse 2 CH-9000 St. Gallen Switzerland Email: ulrich.reimer(a)fhsg.ch Tel.: +41 71 228 7659 Fax: +41 71 228 6339 Web: www.fhsg.ch/ipm www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~reimer The AISWorld LISTSERV is a service of the Association for Information Systems (http://www.aisnet.org). To unsubscribe, redirect, or change subscription options please go to http://lyris.isworld.org/. You are subscribed to AISworld as: neumann(a)wu-wien.ac.at. Each Sender assumes responsibility that his or her message conforms to the AISWorld LISTSERV policy and conditions of use available at http://lyris.isworld.org/isworldlist.htm.

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