CoBI – IEEE International Workshop on 

Capability-oriented Business Informatics 

(Workshop site: http://cobi2014.blogs.dsv.su.se)

in association with the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics

(IEEE CBI 2014 – http://cbi2014.unige.ch/)

Workshop Call

The business environments of today are changing rapidly, entailing complex and dynamic organisational constellations. Enterprises operating in these conditions need to have the capability to deliver their services in a variety of business contexts with sustainable quality and moreover to leverage them to competitive advantage. 

Capability is gaining presence in the context of business-IT alignment, in the specification and design of services using business planning as the baseline, in Enterprise Architecture, and in Service Oriented Architecture. However, the knowledge, role and the usage of enterprise capabilities in the named disciplines in terms of people competencies and the capacity of the resources, are unclear and open to different interpretations. How to utilize “capability” knowledge in enterprise modelling and architectures as a foundation for sustainable Information System planning and management in the presence of varying social and business contexts is likely to yield substantial results in both research and practice in years to come.

We encourage the original research contributions exploring the challenges and solutions related to the meaning and usage of capability in Business Informatics, as well as industrial case studies illustrating the use of this notion. The topics are among but not limited to:

• The role of capability-based modeling for improving Enterprise Modeling

• Capability driven-based methods for Business Process Engineering

• Capabilities for service innovation

• Capability-driven service composition

• Capability-driven cloud management

• Technology support for capability-based tools in Business IT

• The effects of capability on organizational transformation

• Management issues related to capability

• Transferring capability knowledge from other domains to IS engineering

• Case studies in capability use

Organization

CoBI 2014 is the one-day workshop organized in conjunction with the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics  in Geneva, Switzerland.

Organization Chairs

Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)

Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Jelena Zdravkovic (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Paper Submissions

All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/series/7911). The page limit is 12 pages. Papers have to be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2014).

Accepted papers will be published in the CoBI Workshop Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series. At least one author of an accepted paper should register for the conference and present the paper.

Authors of the best 3 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for consideration by the Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ).

Key Dates:

Submission deadline: 30th April 2014

Notification to authors: 1st June 2014

CRC copy submission: 20th June 2014 

The Workshop: 14th July 2014

PC Committee 

Yamine Ait Ameur, France

Reem Bahgat, Egypt

Marko Bajec, Slovenia

Carlos Cetina, Spain

Ying Chen, USA

Eng Chew, Australia

Sergio Espana, Spain

Hugo Estrada, Mexico

Brian Fitzgerald, Ireland

Ulrich Frank, Germany

Xavier Franch, Spain

Paolo Giorgini, Italy

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Italy

Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Netherlands

Janis Grabis, Latvia

Remigijus Gustas, Sweden

Tharaka Ilayperuma, Sri Lanka

Takayuki Ito, Japan

Zhi Jin, China

Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria Ron Kennet, Israel

Marite Kirikova, Latvia

Christian Kop, Austria

Lin Liu, China

Kale Lyytinen, USA

Raimundas Matulevicius, Estonia

Leszek Maciaszek, Poland

Manuel Noguera, Spain

Gustaf-Juel Skielse, Sweden

Erik Perjons, Sweden

Anne Persson, Sweden

Michael Petit, Belgium

Ivan Porres, Finland

Hendrik Proper, Luxembourg

Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany

Matti Rossi, Finland

Francisco Valverde, Spain

Eric Yu, Canada

Liping Zhao, UK