-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Business Process Management Journal - Special Issue on Enterprise Modeling and Simulation Datum: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:48:12 -0500 Von: Joseph Barjis jbarjis@gmail.com Antwort an: Joseph Barjis jbarjis@gmail.com An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

Business Process Management Journal - Special Issue on �Enterprise Modeling and Simulation� Website: http://www.ais-sigmas.org/bpmj.pdf

Guest Editors: Dr. Joseph Barjis, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: J.Barjis@TUDelft.NL Dr. Alexander Verbraeck, Full Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: A.Verbraeck@TUDelft.NL

IMPORTANT DATES ============================================== Paper Submission: June 20, 2009 Authors Notification: July 20, 2009 Final Submission: August 1, 2009 Projected Publication: TBD

SPECIAL ISSUE SCOPE ============================================== Modeling & Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a powerful method and tool in analyzing, designing, and engineering complex enterprise business processes. The main focus of this special issue is on the role, importance, and application of Modeling and Simulation within the extended enterprise and business process management context. This context implies that systems and software applications are designed to enable certain business processes, and to facilitate interaction of the actors, the system, and the environment. Thus, application of M&S in the enterprise context involves a number of managerial, behavioral, and enterprise engineering aspects such as business process management, business process design and redesign, business process improvement, requirements engineering, IT impact on business processes, change management. Traditionally, Modeling & Simulation have been endorsed as instruments to observe dynamic behavior of systems, measure IT impacts on organizations, and outcomes of changes. In the current context of open-source software development, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and business process outsourcing (BPO), M&S assumes even more significance in assessing business process management effectiveness, alignment between business process models and corresponding SOAs, alignment between the client and vendor business strategies in a BPO contract, etc. using embedded simulation in enterprise and organizational models. Next to research interests, there is a growing interest in this field from educational and curriculum perspective with programs at all levels including doctoral level (IS and MIS majors). Thus papers addressing and strengthening the teaching of the Modeling & Simulation discipline are also welcome. This special issue is aimed to become a major outlet for researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in the theory and application of Modeling & Simulation within the enterprise and business process management context.

Important Note: This special issue is based on a collection of best papers presented at EOMAS 2009: International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation. For consideration of papers for this special issue, the papers should be submitted to EOMAS 2009 that has submission due date of February 23 (read more: http://www.EOMAS.org/)

This special issue is aimed to solicit research results on the following topics of interest, but not limited:

SUGGESTED TOPICS ============================================== - Modeling and Simulation in Business Process Management - Business Process Modeling and Simulation - Business Process Simulation Models linked to Organizational Data Sources - Enterprise Modeling and Simulation - Enterprise Modeling and Simulation Framework - Enterprise Modeling and Simulation Lifecycle - Organizational Processes Modeling and Simulation - Requirements Modeling and Simulation - Embedded Simulation Models for Organizational Decision Support - Animation and Visualization of Business Processes - Enterprise Workflow Modeling and Simulation - Simulation Methods, Techniques, and Tools for Enterprise Modeling - Methodologies and Frameworks for Business Modeling - Modeling and Simulation of Business Activity Monitoring - Secure Business Process Modeling and Simulation - Case Studies on Modeling and Simulation Including Industry Experience - Collaborative, Participative, and Interactive Modeling and Simulation

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ============================================== To submit your paper online you must create an author account at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bpmj then follow the on-screen guidance which takes you through the submission process. Manuscript

Central is an intuitive and author-friendly interface for submitting articles to Emerald journals over the Internet. Registering on Manuscript Central To register please follow the instructions below: - Log on to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bpmj - Click on the create account link at the top right of the screen. - Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding - Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers - Click 'Finish' and your account has been created Submitting an article - Once Registered go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bpmj with your username and password. This will take you through to the Welcome page. - (To consult the Author Guidelines for this journal click on the Home Page link in the Resources column). - Click on the Author Centre button. - Click on the �click here to submit a new manuscript� link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page. - Complete all fields and browse to upload your article. - At the 'please select the type of issue' (step 4) please highlight �Enterprise Modelling and Simulations� in the dropdown list - Please remember to upload an anonymous article file (you should upload a the title page � with all author contact details - as a separate file) because we operate double blind peer review - When all required sections are completed, preview your .PDF proof. - Submit your manuscript. Please contact manuscriptcentral@emeraldinsight.com if you require any assistance. After you have submitted your paper you will receive an email indicating that your paper has been received together with its unique identity number. This means that the Editor, Publisher, and

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