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23rd International Conference on
Advanced
Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2011)
London 20-24 June 2011
http://www.caise2011.com
Call for Papers
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 30th November 2010
Notification of acceptance: 18th February 2011
Conference Theme - IS Olympics: Information Systems in a diverse
world
We link this year’s CAiSE conference theme with the coming Olympic
and
Paralympic Games, two international multi-sport events, which
bring together
athletes from all the continents to celebrate sporting excellence
but also
human diversity. Diversity is an important concept for modern
information
systems. Information Systems (IS) are diverse by nature ranging
from basic
systems to complex and from small to large. The process of
constructing
such systems is also diverse ranging from ad-hoc methods, to
structured
and formal methods. Diversity is also present amongst information
systems developers, from novice to experienced. Moreover, the wide
acceptance
of information systems and their usage in almost every aspect of
the human
life has also introduced diversity amongst users. Users range from
novice
to experience and they demonstrate differences related to race,
ethnicity,
gender, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious
beliefs,
and so on. It is therefore the responsibility of the Information
Systems
Engineering community to engineer information systems that operate
in such
diverse world.
On the other hand, looking at the issues of the modern
Olympic Games, we can identify a number of issues that rapidly
make their
appearance in the area of Information Systems. The kind of systems
that
are implemented and used in Olympic Games are varied and many.
Every type
of system that a well established multinational organisation uses
is also
established by the Local Organising Committee (OCOG), for example,
ERP,
private telecoms, HR recruitment, CAD/CAM etc. Many types of
system that
local governments use, such a town planning, transportation,
refuge collection,
medical services, also play a significant role. Many types of
system that
national governments use are also present such as accreditation,
physical
security systems. Moreover, the Olympic Games have a fixed
starting date;
everything needs to work perfectly from the first day; there is a
large
number of distributed (geographically) systems that need to be
supported;
requirements come from different sources (IOC, sport event
specific, central
administration, laws, sponsors etc). Similarly, an increasing
number of
information systems need to start operation on a specific day
(restricted
by laws and international agreements); important information is
stored
so full operation is required from day one; the need for
international
collaboration systems means that systems are becoming larger and
highly
distributed; various stakeholders are involved introducing
different and
sometimes conflicting requirements. All these issues introduce a
number
of challenges for the Information Systems Engineering community
related
to engineering, quality and interconnectivity of information
systems.
CAiSE’11 invites papers that address all these challenges.
We also specifically encourage submissions that address diversity
issues,
either in terms of the information systems, the development team
or the
information systems users. The topics of interests include, but
are not
restricted to:
Methodologies and Approaches for IS Engineering:
-Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling;-Knowledge
patterns and
ontologies for IS engineering;-Requirements
engineering;-Methodologies
and Languages for Secure IS;-Business process modelling and
management;-IS
engineering approaches for adaptive and flexible information
systems;-
Simulation;-IS in networked & virtual organizations;-Model,
component,
and software reuse;-Method engineering;-IS reengineering;-Quality
of models
and of modelling languages;-Adaptive IS engineering
approaches;-Usability,
trust, flexibility, interoperability;-Knowledge, information, and
data
quality
Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS
engineering:
-Service-oriented architectures;
-Innovative database technology;
-Model-driven architectures;
-Semantic web;-Component based development;
-IS and ubiquitous technologies;-Software Agents architectures;
-Adaptive and context-aware IS;-Distributed, mobile, and open
architectures;
Engineering of specific kinds of IS:
-eGovernment;-Enterprise systems (ERP, CRM);
-Data warehousing;-Workflow systems;
-Knowledge management systems;-Content management systems;Emerging
Areas
of IS:
-IS & Digital Ecologies-IS & Smart Buildings;
-IS & Digital Devices-IS & their Economies
Author Guidelines
We invite four types of original and scientific papers:
Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions
(theoretical,
methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A
technical
paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled,
the relevant
state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the
potential
- or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations
or validate
proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical
studies, experiments,
case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs,
etc. Scientific
reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into
this category.
The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its
causal
or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method
must
be sound and appropriate.
Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in
practice,
relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial
practice. The
focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth
analysis
of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context
must be
given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own
practice.
Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions
or approaches,
in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT
tools
or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must
describe precisely
the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of
reasoning,
or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their
approach
and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the
identified
situation.
Submission and Publication
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described
must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions
must conform
to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages,
including all
text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not
conforming to
the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the
scope
of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information
about the
Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.Three
to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at
the end
of the abstract.
Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’11 and published in the
conference
proceedings, which are published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer
Science (LNCS). A small selection of best papers will be
recommended for
inclusion in a special issue of Information Systems (latest impact
factor:
1.966) dedicated to this conference.
At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for
the
conference and attend the conference to present the paper.
Organising Committee
Advisory Committee
Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne,
France
General Chair
Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, U.K.
Program Chairs
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, U.K.
Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 – Pantéon – Sorbonne,
France
Local Arrangements Chairs
Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, U.K.
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, U.K.
Workshops and Tutorials Chairs
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Forum Chair
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Sponsorship and Exhibition Chairs
Babis Theodoulidis, University of Manchester, UK
John McGuire, FreshTL, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Michel Léonard, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Bernhard Thalheim, University Kiel, Germany
Cornelia Boldyreff, University of East London, U.K.
Publication chairs
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
David Preston, University of East London, UK
Publicity Chairs
Rebecca Deneckere, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne,
France
Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, U.K.
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Finance Chair
Mohammad Dastbaz, University of East London, UK
Webmasters
Michalis Pavlidis, University of East London, U.K.
Sambhu Singh, University of East London, U.K.
Programme Board Members
Wil van der Aalst (NL)Marco Bajec (Slovenia)Nacer Boudjilida
(France)Eric
Dubois, (Luxembourg)Xavier Franch (Spain)Marina Jirotka (UK)Michel
Leonard
(Switzerland)Moira Norrie (Switzerland)Barbara Pernici
(Italy)Klaus Pohl
(Germany)Camille Salinesi (France)Janis Stirna (Sweden)Roel
Weiringa (NL)
Programme Committee members
Pär Ågerfalk (Sweden)Hans Akkermans (NL)Antonia Albani (The
Netherlands)Daniel
Amyot (Canada)Valeria De Antonellis, ItalyPeggy Aravantinou
(Greece)Paris
Avgeriou (Netherlands)Luciano Baresi (Italy)Boalem Benatallah
(Australia)Ahmad
Barfourosh (Iran)Giuseppe Berio (France)Nacer Boudjlida
(France)Mokrane
Bouzeghoub (France)Silvana Castano (Italy)Jaelson Castro
(Brazil)Corine
Cauvet (France)Donna Champion (U.K.)Ioanna Constantiou
(Denmark)Paolo Falcarin
(U.K.)João Falcão e Cunha (Portugal)Joerg Evermann
(Canada)Mariagrazia
Fugini (Italy)Paolo Giorgini (Italy)Remigijus Gustas (Sweden)Terry
Halpin
(Australia)Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel (The Netherlands)Patrick
Heymans (Belgium)Jane
Huang (USA)Matthias Jarke (Germany)Paul Johannesson
(Sweden)Panagiotis
Karras (Singapore)Zoubida Kedad (France)M?r?te Kirikova
(Latvia)Naoufel
Kraiem (Tunisia)John Krogstie (Norway)Wilfried Lemahieu
(Belgium)Kalle
Lyytinen (USA)Raimundas Matulevicious (Estonia)Jan Mendling
(Germany)Isabelle
Mirbel (France)John Mylopoulos (Canada)Selmin Nuncan
(France)Andreas
Oberweis (Germany)Antoni Olive, SpainAndreas Opdahl, Norway Mike
Papazoglou
(The Netherlands)Jeffrey Parsons (Canada)Oscar Pastor Lopez, Spain
Anne
Persson, Sweden Michael Petit (Belgium)Elias Pimenidis (U.K.)Yves
Pigneur
(Switzerland)Geert Poels (Belgium)Erik Proper (The
Netherlands)Jolita
Ralyte (Switzerland)Sudha Ram (USA)Ruth Raventos (Spain)Manfred
Reichert
(Germany)Stephan Reiff-Marganiec (UK)Bill Robinson (USA)Michael
Rosemann
(Australia)Gustavo Rossi (Argentina)Matti Rossi (Finland)Motoshi
Saeki
(Japan)Keng Siau (USA)Monique Snoeck (Belgium)Ian Sommerville
(UK)Pnina
Soffer, IsraelArnon Sturm (Israel)Kenji Taguchi (Japan)David
Taniar (Australia)Ernest
Teniente (Spain)Bernhard Thalheim (Germany)Aphrodite Tsalgatidou
(Greece)Irene
Vanderfeesten (The Netherlands)Olegas Vasilecas (Lituania)Yair
Wand (Canada)Mathias
Weske (Germany)Hans Weigand (The Netherlands)Jon Wittle (UK)Carson
Woo
(Canada)Eric Yu (Canada)Didar Zowghi (Australia)