The paper submission deadline has been extended to the 28th of January. 

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                  1st Enterprise Engineering Working Conference
                                (EEWC 2011)
                  
                   http://ciaonetwork.org/index.php?id=72

                              16-17 May 2011
                             Antwerp, Belgium

                         Proceedings published in 
        Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 
                                (LNBIP)
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Motivation
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Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. But the vast majority of strategic initiatives in enterprises fail, meaning that enterprises are unable to gain success from their strategy. Abundant research indicates that the key reason for strategic failures is the lack of coherence and consistency among the various components of an enterprise. At the same time, the need to operate as a unified and integrated whole is becoming increasingly important. These challenges are dominantly addressed from a functional or managerial perspective, as advocated by management and organization science. Such knowledge is necessary and sufficient for managing an enterprise, but it is inadequate for bringing about changes. To do that, one needs to take a constructional or engineering perspective. Both organizations and software systems are complex and prone to entropy. This means that
 in the course of time, the costs of bringing about similar changes increase in a way that is known as combinatorial explosion. Regarding (automated) information systems, this has been demonstrated; regarding organizations, it is still a conjecture. Entropy can be reduced and managed effectively through modular design based on atomic elements. The people in an enterprise are collectively responsible for the operation (including management) of the enterprise. In addition, they are collectively responsible for the evolution of the enterprise (adapting to needs for change). These responsibilities can only be borne if one has appropriate knowledge of the enterprise.


Focus and Goal
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference is the first working conference in the emerging field of Enterprise Engineering with the goal to gather academics and practitioners in order to share innovative research issues and practical experiences, and to facilitate profound discussions about challenges mentioned above. Addressing these challenges requires a paradigm shift. It is the mission of the discipline of Enterprise Engineering to develop new, appropriate theories, models, methods and other artifacts for the analysis, design, implementation, and governance of enterprises by combining (relevant parts of) management and organization science, information systems science, and computer science. The ambition is to address (all) traditional topics in said disciplines from the Enterprise Engineering Paradigm. The result of the efforts should be theoretically rigorous and practically relevant.

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Enterprise Ontology
* Enterprise Architecture
* Enterprise Governance
* Modeling (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Reference models for (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Domain reference ontologies
* Business rules
* Information systems development
* Information system ontologies
* Information system architectures
* Component-based system development
* Ontology-based web services
* Interoperability testing and verification
* Service Oriented Architecture
* Enterprise modeling and simulation
* Organizational modeling and simulation
* Business process modeling and simulation
* Collaborative, Participative, and Interactive Modeling


Organization of the Workshop
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference arises out of a series of successful workshops (CIAO!'10, CIAO!'09, CIAO!'08, MIOS-CIAO'06, MIOS-INTEROP'05, MIOS'04) held at the DESRIST, CAiSE and OTM Federated conferences so far.

We are looking for articles on current or recently finished research projects as well as articles from practitioners. Based on our inspiring experience of the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 workshops, the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference is planned to be a real working conference, providing ample time for profound discussions during two days. 

The focus of discussion will be on the emerging discipline of enterprise engineering, in particular according to the Enterprise Engineering Manifesto (www.ciaonetwork.org/publications/EEManifesto.pdf).


Publication
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The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing". 

The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper for possible publication at the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (www.igi-global.com/ijism).


Submission Conditions
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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 LNBIP format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding 15 pages will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at Springer LNBIP Web page (http://www.springer.com/series/7911).

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.


Important Dates
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Abstract Submission:            January  14, 2011
Paper Submission:               January  28, 2011 (extended deadline)
Notification of Acceptance:     February 18, 2011
Camera Ready Paper Due:         March    04, 2011
Enterprise Engineering 
Working Conference (EEWC):      May   16-17, 2011


General Chair
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Jan L.G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


Organization Chairs
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Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium


Program Chair
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Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland


Program Co-Chairs
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Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
José Tribolet, INESC and  Lisbon University of Technology, Portugal 


Program Committee 
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David Aveiro         University of Madeira, Portugal
Eduard Babkin        Higher School of Economics Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Bernhard Bauer       University of Augsburg, Germany
Joseph Barjis        Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Emmanuel delaHostria Rockwell Automation, USA
Eric Dubois          Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Johann Eder          University of Klagenfurt, Austria 
Joaquim Filipe       School of Technology of Setúbal, Portugal 
Rony G. Flatscher    Vienna University of Economics and 
                     Business Administration, Austria 
Ulrich Frank         University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Remigijus Gustas     Karlstad University, Sweden
Birgit Hofreiter     University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Jan Hoogervorst      Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands 
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Christian Huemer     Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Junichi Iijima       Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Pontus Johnson       KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Peter Loos           University of Saarland, Germany 
Florian Matthes      Technical University Munich, Germany
Aldo de Moor         CommunitySense, The Netherlands 
Graham McLeod        University of Cape Town, South Africa
Hans Mulder          University of Antwerp, Belgium 
Martin Op ‘t Land    Capgemini, The Netherlands
Erik Proper          Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg 
Gil Regev            École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 
                     Itecor, Switzerland 
Pnina Soffer         MIS department, Haifa University, Israel 
José Tribolet        INESC and  Lisbon University of Technology, Portugal 
Jan Verelst          University of Antwerp, Belgium
Robert Winter        University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Marielba Zacarias    University of Algarve, Portugal




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