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Subject:	[WI] Reminder: CfP EMISAJ Special Issue on Blockchain Technologies in Enterprise Modeling and Enterprise Information Systems
Date:	Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:24:36 +0200
From:	Hans-Georg Fill <hans-georg.fill@unifr.ch>
Reply-To:	Hans-Georg Fill <hans-georg.fill@unifr.ch>

*Apologies for cross-postings*

Call for Papers - Special Issue in EMISAJ - Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - International Journal of Conceptual Modeling

Blockchain Technologies in Enterprise Modeling and Enterprise Information Systems

https://emisa-journal.org/emisa/announcement/view/28

Editors

• Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Peter Fettke, Saarland University and DFKI, Germany
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria

Scope
In this special issue we seek for high-quality contributions investigating the use of blockchains and their underlying technologies in the area of enterprise modeling and for enterprise information systems. Blockchains constitute a new paradigm for decentralized information systems with implications both on a managerial and a technical level. After a first hype that originated mainly from their successful use in cryptocurrencies, blockchains are now being evaluated for innovative enterprise applications. In this context, the use of modeling techniques plays an important role for the well-structured design, evaluation, and deployment of such applications. This concerns both the use of general-purpose modeling methods as well as domain-specific modeling methods. Furthermore, the integration of blockchain technologies in traditional enterprise information systems is studied for domains such as enterprise resource planning systems, for business process execution, for interorganizational collaboration or for the distributed storage of organizational knowledge.

Possible Topics include but are not limited to:

• Use of enterprise modeling methods for blockchain-based applications
• Domain-specific modeling methods for blockchain-based applications
• Blockchain-based execution of enterprise models such as business processes, enterprise architecture models or software models
• Architectures for the integration of blockchains in enterprise information systems
• Storage, distribution, processing, and management aspects of enterprise models using blockchains
• Process mining in combination with enterprise models and blockchains

Associate Editors

• Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France
• Claudio Di Ciccio, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Marlon Dumas, University of Tatu, Estonia
• Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
• Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
• Julius Köpke, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
  
• Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Edy Portmann, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Stefan Schulte, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Susanne Strahringer, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Dates

•     Publication and Distribution of the CfP: February 2019
•     Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30, 2019
•     First round of reviews completed: August 31, 2019
•     Submission of revisions if needed: September 30, 2019
•     Second round of reviews completed: November 15, 2019
•     Final submission: December 10, 2019
•     Publication of Special Issue January, 2020

Submissions
Submissions must adhere to the author guidelines for EMISAJ, which can be found at https://www.emisa-journal.org/emisa/about/submissions. When submitting the article in the submission system, please make sure to select the section "Special Issue on Blockchain Technologies in EM and EIS". Please note that EMISAJ is a True Open Access journal (no author fees, no exclusive rights to publish). EMISAJ is indexed in DBLP, EBSCO, and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

References

• Fill, H.-G. (2019): Applying the Concept of Knowledge Blockchains to Ontologies, in: A. Martin, K. Hinkelmann, A. Gerber, D. Lenat, F. van Harmelen, P. Clark (Eds.), AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering (AAAI-MAKE 2019), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• Fill, H.-G. and Härer, F. (2018): Knowledge Blockchains: Applying Blockchain Technologies to Enterprise Modeling, HICSS'51, AIS, pp.4045-4054.
• Mendling, J. et al. (2018): Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and Opportunities. ACM Trans. Management Inf. Syst. 9(1): 4:1-4:16.

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Fill
Digitalization and Information Systems Group
University of Fribourg
Bd de Pérolles 90
CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland