-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] 2nd CfP: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014) Datum: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:29:10 +0100 Von: programchair@ciaonetwork.org An: wi@lists.uni-karlsruhe.de

2nd CfP: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

Call for papers

4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference

May, 6-8, 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira, Portugal

Proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing http://www.springer.com/series/7911 (LNBIP)

Experience the benefits of a Working Conference in the Portuguese paradise known as the Pearl of the Atlantic and Europe's Leading Island Destination of 2013 http://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-europes-leading-island-destination-2013 by World Travel Awards http://www.worldtravelawards.com/. Come and visit us on a venue with breath taking views http://vimeo.com/search?q=madeira+island, providing inspiration and conditions for significant scientific advancement. We reserve 60 minutes for each paper's presentation and productive discussion, relating to the increasingly relevant discipline of enterprise engineering that has emerged from the disciplines of information systems engineering and management and organization sciences. If you come a couple of days earlier, you will be able to attend the Madeira Flower Festival http://visitmadeira.pt/festadaflor/index.php?id=1&lang=en parade -- one of the major tourist attractions of Madeira every year.

Please forward this Call for Papers to contacts you have and mailing lists you belong to, that may be interested in it.

Motivation

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 in a fully systematic and integrated way. To do that, one needs to take a constructional or engineering perspective.

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 given by a sound engineering aproach.

Focus and Goal

The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014 is the fourth 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 http://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:

* Business Process Management * Business Process Modeling and Simulation * Business Rules * Business Rules Management * Collaborative, Participative, and Interactive Modeling * Component-Based System Development * Domain Ontologies * Domain Reference Ontologies * Enterprise Architecture * Enterprise Governance * Enterprise Modeling and Simulation * Enterprise Ontology * Information System Architectures * Information System Ontologies * Information Systems Design * Information Systems Development * Interoperability Testing and Verification * Modeling (cross-enterprise) Business Processes * Ontology-based Web Services * Participatory Systems * Reference Models for (cross-enterprise) Business Processes * Service Oriented Architecture * Service Oriented Design

Organization

The 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference in 2014 follows the successful preceding conferences in 2013, 2012 and 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 conferences, the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014 is planned to be a real working conference, providing ample time for profound discussions following short presentations.

Publication

The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series: "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing http://www.springer.com/series/7911".

Submission

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

For submissions please go to our Easychair conference web page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eewc2014 and:

1) sign-up or sign-in

2) submit your abstract

3) upload your paper.

Important note: Since the review process is double-blind, please make sure that your names and affiliations are not listed in the paper submitted for review!

Important Dates

Abstract submission: January 10, 2014 Paper submission: January 17, 2014 Acceptance notification: February 10, 2014 Camera ready: February 25, 2014 EEWC: May 06-08, 2014

Chairs

*Advisory Board *

Jan L.G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

*General Chair*

José Tribolet, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

*Program Chair*

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

*Organization Chair*

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

Program Committee

Artur Caetano University of Lisbon, Portugal Bernhard Bauer University of Augsburg, Germany Birgit Hofreiter Vienna University of Technology, Austria Christian Huemer Vienna University of Technology, Austria 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 Joop de Jong Mprise, The Netherlands Jorge Sanz IBM Research at Almaden, California US Joseph Barjis Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Junichi Iijima Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Khaled Gaaloul Public Research Centre -- Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Linda Terlouw ICRIS, The Netherlands Marcello Bax Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Marielba Zacarias University of Algarve, Portugal Martin Op 't Land Capgemini, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Belgium Maurício Almeida Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Olga Oshmarina Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Paul Johanesson Stockholm University, Sweden Peter Loos University of Saarland, Germany Philip Huysmans University of Antwerp, Belgium Renata Baracho Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Robert Lagerström KTH -- Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Robert Pergl Czech Technical University in Prague Rony Flatscher Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Sanetake Nagayoshi Waseda University, Japan Steven van Kervel Formetis, The Netherlands Stijn Hoppenbrouwers Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Sybren de Kinderen Public Research Centre -- Henri Tudor, Luxembourg