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Call for Papers

“Organizational Engineering” Minitrack within the Organizational Systems and Technology Track at the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-43)

January 05-08, 2009, Kauai, Hawaii, USA

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_43/minitracks/os-oen.htm

The Organizational Engineering Minitrack at HICSS-43

Dominated by the behavioral science approach for a long time, information systems research increasingly acknowledges design science research as a complementary approach. The systematic design of artifacts is not restricted to information systems components. Being the conceptual foundations for information systems requirements, artifacts on the strategic and organizational levels have to be engineered as well. Organizational engineering aims at researching concepts, methods and technology in order to understand, model, develop and analyze all important aspects of changing organizations. As a whole, it focuses on understanding the relationships and dependencies between strategy, organizational structuring, business processes, information flows and the supporting software systems. It encompasses several multi-disciplinary topics, including modeling business goals and processes, formalizing enterprise ontologies, identifying services and analyzing best practices and patterns. The focus of this minitrack is on approaches that deal with relating both business and technological aspects of an organization. The organizational engineering minitrack provides an opportunity for researchers, academics or practitioners interested in organizational modeling, methodologies and tools to present their solutions, exchange their ideas and discuss open issues and future directions. Although this is the first edition of the Organizational Engineering minitrack at HICSS, an Organizational Engineering track has been a part of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC) for the last six years. We expect synergies between researchers, practitioners and other tracks to be significantly higher at HICSS.

Topics

The organizational engineering minitrack will provide a space for theoretical and applied research studies on organizational engineering, including the topics listed below:

Enterprise Modeling - Enterprise modeling, including modeling of business processes, goals, strategy, information entities, business structure, support systems, skills and people. - Enterprise modeling notations, including formal modeling methods and notations. - Dynamics of enterprise modeling. Approaches for handling the continuous update and evolution of enterprise models. - Temporal aspects of enterprise modeling, including modeling of dynamic processes and explicit modeling of time within the enterprise. - Enterprise alignment. Methodologies and conceptual frameworks for analyzing, creating and maintaining the alignment between enterprise concepts such as strategy, business processes, information, actors and the support systems and technology. - Automatic and assisted generation of enterprise models. Includes bottom-up, top-down and middle-out methods, models and tools for assisting the generation of enterprise models. - Enterprise model mining, including business process mining and business information mining. - Frameworks and tools for the deployment, execution, simulation, assessment and performance analysis of enterprise models. - Enterprise ontologies. - Enterprise model analysis, verification and validation.

Business Process Engineering - Business process re-engineering and business process patterns. - Business process analysis and simulation. - Analysis and design of process-oriented software implementations. - Specification of intra- and inter-organizational collaborations and contracts.

Enterprise Integration - Business integration and enterprise application integration. - Service design. Process services, enterprise services and application services.

Reference Modeling - Reference model construction. - Reference model adaption.

Minitrack Co-Chairs Robert Winter (corresponding co-chair) University of St.Gallen Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8 9000 St. Gallen Switzerland Phone: +41-71-224-2190 Fax: +41-71-224-2189 Email: robert.winter@unisg.ch

José Tribolet IST, Technical University of Lisbon Avenida Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal Phone: +351-213-540-814 Fax: +351-213-523-401 Email: jose.tribolet@inesc.pt

Artur Caetano IST, Technical University of Lisbon Avenida Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal Phone: +351-213-540-814 Fax: +351-213-523-401 Email: artur.caetano@ist.utl.pt

About HICSS

HICSS-43 will consist of symposia, workshops, tutorials, advanced seminars, a keynote address, a distinguished lecture, formal paper presentations, and ad hoc meetings over four days, January 5-8, 2010, at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, 1571 Poipu Road, Koloa, Hawaii, USA 96756 (Tel: +1 808 742 1234, Fax: +1 808 742 1557, http://kauai. hyatt.com/ hyatt/ hotels/ index.jsp). Since 1967, HICSS conferences have provided an exciting forum for the exchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in the information, computer, and system sciences. Conference leaders seek the most recent and relevant cross-disciplinary research, providing a variety of research topics and wide-ranging discussion opportunities. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. Acceptance is based on a strict peer review in a double-blind process, June - August of each year. Accepted papers are published in the HICSS-43 Conference Proceedings, distributed by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and included in Explore, the IEEE Digital Library (http://computer.org/cspress). HICSS papers emphasize advances in research and development activities in several areas of the system sciences. Best Papers Awards are presented in a special event on the last day of the conference after a careful review by a special committee in each track. Conference attendees enjoy a high degree of personal interaction and lively discussion. Paper presentations and other sessions occur in an informal workshop-like setting. Registrants are expected to attend all four days of the conference – this year Tuesday through Friday – to receive the most professional benefit.

How to Submit a Paper

Follow Author Instructions found on http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ All submissions will be made electronically through this site. HICSS papers must contain original material, and not be previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Abstract submission is optional. You may contact the Minitrack Chairs for guidance or verification of content. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, please submit an abstract to the Track Chairs for determination. You may submit a paper to only one Minitrack. Duplicate submissions may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with the author. An individual may be listed as author/co-author on no more than six (6) submitted papers at HICSS. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission.

Important Deadlines

June 15 - Submission of full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names. Aug 15 - Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System. At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees. Sept 15 - Accepted authors submit Final Paper. At least one author of each paper must register by this date. This is the Early Registration fee deadline. Oct 15 - Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.