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	   2nd Enterprise Engineering Working Conference
			   (EEWC 2012)

		http://www.ciaonetwork.org/eewc2012

			 May, 07-08, 2012
		      Delft, The Netherlands

		       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 pressure to increase agility and
competitiveness, to operate on the global market, and to engage in manifold
alliances. However, the vast majority of strategic initiatives in enterprises
fail, meaning that enterprises are unable to gain success from their strategy.
The key reason for these 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.
Currently, these challenges are dominantly addressed from a functional or
managerial perspective, as advocated by the management and organization
sciences, and as implemented in MBA programs. Such knowledge is indeed
necessary for managing an enterprise, but it is inadequate for bringing about
changes. To do that, one needs to take a constructional or engineering
perspective. Only engineers bring about changes.
In addition, both organizations and software applications are complex systems,
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. Entropy can be reduced and managed effectively through modular
design based on atomic elements.
Lastly, the individual persons in an enterprise, in cooperation, are ultimately
responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the enterprise. They
are also collectively responsible for the evolution of the enterprise, in order
to meet new challenges. These responsibilities can only be borne if members
have an appropriate knowledge and an effective awareness of the construction of
the enterprise.


Focus and Goal
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2012 is the second working
conference in the emerging field of Enterprise Engineering. The goal of the
conference is to gather academics and practitioners in order to share
innovative research issues and practical experiences, and to facilitate
profound discussions about the challenges mentioned above. 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 traditional topics in said disciplines from the
Enterprise Engineering Paradigm
(www.ciaonetwork.org/publications/EEManifesto.pdf). The result of the efforts
should be theoretically rigorous and practically relevant.

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

* Enterprise Ontology
* Enterprise Architecture
* Enterprise Governance
* Enterprise modeling and simulation
* Domain ontologies
* Modeling (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Reference models for (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Business Process Management
* Business Rules Management
* Information systems design
* Information system architectures
* Component based system design
* Service Oriented Design
* Business process modeling and simulation
* Participatory systems


Organization
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2012 follows the successful 1st
EEWC in 2011, and the preceding series of workshops (CIAO!'10, CIAO!'09,
CIAO!'08, MIOS-CIAO'06, MIOS-INTEROP'05, MIOS'04) held at the DESRIST, CAiSE
and OTM Federated conferences.

We are looking for articles on current or recently finished research projects
as well as articles from practitioners. Based on our motivating experience of
the previous workshops and working conference, the Enterprise Engineering
Working Conference 2012 is planned to be a real working conference, providing
ample time for profound discussions following short presentations.


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


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. 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   16, 2012
Paper submission:		January   22, 2012
Acceptance notification:	February  15, 2012
Camera ready:			February  22, 2012
EEWC:				May    07-08, 2012


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


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


Organization Chair
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Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


Program Chair
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David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal


Program Committee
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Bernhard Bauer		University of Augsburg, Germany
Birgit Hofreiter	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Christian Huemer	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dai Senoo		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Eduard Babkin		Higher School of Economics Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Emmanuel Hostria	Rockwell Automation, USA
Eric Dubois		Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Erik Proper		Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Florian Matthes 	Technical University Munich, Germany
Gil Regev		École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Itecor, Switzerland
Graham McLeod		University of Cape Town, South Africa
Hans Mulder		University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Hoogervorst 	Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands
Jan Verelst		University of Antwerp, Belgium
Joaquim Filipe		School of Technology of Setúbal, Portugal
Jorge Sanz		IBM Research at Almaden, California US
José Tribolet		INESC and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Junichi Iijima		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Marielba Zacarias	University of Algarve, Portugal
Martin Op't Land	Capgemini, The Netherlands
Natalia Aseeva		Higher School of Economics at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Olga Khvostova		Higher School of Economics at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Paul Johanesson 	Stockholm University, Sweden
Pedro Sousa		INESC and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Loos		University of Saarland, Germany
Pnina Soffer		MIS department, Haifa University, Israel
Robert Lagerström	KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Winter		University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Rony Flatscher		Vienna University of Economics and Business
Administration, Austria
Sanetake Nagayoshi	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers	Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ulrich Frank		University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 
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