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Subject:	[AISWorld] Final CFP: EMMSAD'2011
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:09:47 -0600
From:	Keng Siau <ksiau@unlnotes.unl.edu>
To:	aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

EMMSAD’2011

Final Call for Papers
Sixteenth International Conference on
Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design
http://www.emmsad.org

London, United Kingdom, 2011, 20-21 June
(held in conjunction with CAiSE’2011)

Submissions due: February 26, 2011

Sponsors:        
·        Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). As of 2007, EMMSAD is officially linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE conference series (http://www.caise2011.com).
·        International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1). https://research.idi.ntnu.no/ifip-wg81/. Sponsor since 1997.
·        European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) North Pole (http://www.interop-vlab.eu/). Sponsor since 2005.
·        Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS-SIGSAND). http://nfp.cba.utulsa.edu/bajaja/Sigsand/. Sponsor since 2005
·        Enterprise Engineering Network (http://www.enterpriseengineeringnetwork.org/). Sponsor since 2009.
·        The ORM Foundation (http://www.ormfoundation.org/).



Background:

The field of information systems analysis and design includes numerous information modeling methods and notations (e.g. ER, ORM, UML, ArchiMate, EPC, BPMN, DEMO) that are typically evolving. Even with some attempts to standardize (e.g. UML for object-oriented software design), new modeling methods are constantly being introduced, many of which differ only marginally from previous approaches. These ongoing changes significantly impact the way information systems, enterprises, and business processes are being analyzed and designed in practice.

The EMMSAD conference focuses on exploring, evaluating, and enhancing modeling methods and methodologies for the analysis and design of information systems, enterprises, and business processes. Though the need for such studies is well recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. The objective of the EMMSAD conference series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in modeling methods for 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’2011 is the sixteenth in a very successful series of EMMSAD events, previously held in Heraklion, Barcelona, Pisa, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Interlaken, Toronto, Velden, Riga, Porto, Luxembourg, Trondheim, Montpellier, Amsterdam and Hammamet.


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
·        Experiences in modeling
·        Theoretical/philosophical foundations of modeling

and/or specific modeling strategies or aspects, including (but not limited to):
·        Agile Modeling
·        Business Process Modeling and Improvement
·        Business Rule Modeling
·        Database Modeling
·        Enterprise Modeling, Architecture, and Governance
·        Goal and Value Modeling
·        Information Modeling (ER, ORM etc.)
·        Meta-modeling
·        Method Engineering
·        Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Systems
·        Model-Driven Engineering
·        Object Oriented Methods and Methodologies
·        Ontologies and the Semantic Web
·        Requirements modeling
·        Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
·        Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Unified Process (UP)
·        Workflow Modeling
·        Web information systems


Important dates (2011):


Paper submissions:                                February 26
Notification of acceptance:              March 22
Camera-ready copies:                                April 10
Conference:                                        June 20-21


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 results available at the time of the conference. Please use the following format for your submissions:

·        For Completed Research submissions, the paper should not exceed 15 pages (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.
·        For Research-In-Progress submissions, the paper should not exceed 10 pages (including references and appendices).
·        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.
·        Use 10 point font for the bulk of the body text.

Only electronic submissions in Adobe PDF format are accepted. E-mail your abstract as an attachment to terry.halpin@logicblox.com. Submit the full paper using the conference management system available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emmsad2011.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the workshop, and should use the Springer LNBIP style (for details, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). 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 conference co-chairs, or for journal publications in the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=1157&DetailsType=Description).


EMMSAD Steering Committee

Dr Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA

Dr Terry Halpin LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

Dr John Krogstie Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Norway

EMMSAD’2011 Co-chairs:

Dr Terry Halpin LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

Dr Erik Proper Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Dr John Krogstie Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Norway

Program committee:

Stephan Aier	University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Antonia Albani	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Herman Balsters	University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Annie Becker	Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Giuseppe Berio	University of Torino, Italy
Linda Bird	National E-Health Transition Authority, Australia
Peter Bollen	Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Nacer Boudjlida	Loria, France
Sjaak Brinkkemper	Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Andy Carver	INTI International University, Malaysia
Olga De Troyer	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
David Embley	Brigham Young University, USA
Mathias Ekstedt	KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
John Erickson	University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA
Gordon Everest	University of Minnesota, USA
Peter Fettke	Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the DFKI, Germany
Ulrich Frank	University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany
Andrew Gemino	Simon Fraser University, Canada
Reimingijus Gustas	Karlstad University, Sweden
Wolfgang Hesse	University of Marburg, Germany
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers	Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mike Jackson	Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Paul Johannesson	Stockholm University, Sweden
Pontus Johnson	KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Pericles Loucopoulos	Loughborough University, UK
Kalle Lyytinen	Case Western Reserve University, USA
Florian Matthes	Technical University München, Germany
Raimundas Matulevičius	University of Tartu, Estonia
Graham McLeod	University of Cape Town,  South Africa
Jan Mendling Wolfgang Molnar	Humboldt University, Berlin Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Tony Morgan	INTI International University, Malaysia
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
Colette Rolland	University of Paris 1, France
Kurt Sandkuhl	Jönköping University, Sweden
Peretz Shoval	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Guttorm Sindre	University of Trondheim, Norway
Il Yeol Song	Drexel University, USA
Carson Woo	University of British Columbia, USA
Martin Zelm	CIMOSA, Germany

For more information on the workshop, please contact:

Dr Terry Halpin
E-mail: terry.halpin@logicblox.com

For general information about the CAiSE’2011 conference, see http://www.caise2011.com