-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] CfP Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - SPECIAL ISSUE ON "Methodologies for Enterprise and Organizational Engineering" Datum: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:55:01 +0200 Von: robert.winter@unisg.ch An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

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Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - An International Journal

SPECIAL ISSUE ON 'Methodologies for Enterprise and Organizational Engineering'

IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: October 15, 2009 Authors Notification: November 15, 2009 Final Submission: December 15, 2009 Projected Publication: February 2010

GUEST EDITORS - Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg (Germany), antonia.albani@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de - Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), J.Barjis@TUDelft.NL - Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), robert.winter@unisg.ch

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SPECIAL ISSUE SCOPE Due to the dynamic economy of the changing global market, enterprises and their organizations need to be more agile, adaptive, transparent, and capable of change and adaptation. In order to support business innovation, enterprises and their organizations need to be systematically analyzed, designed and engineered. The often-used black-box knowledge (focus on behavior and function) of enterprises and their organizations might be sufficient and adequate for running the business, but, to innovate and transform the business, a white-box approach (focus on construction) is required. The studying of enterprises and their organizations as artifacts requires methods to analyze, design and engineer such artifacts. A lot of work has already been done in the area of enterprise models, i.e., defining notations for describing the different aspects of organizations and the application of these notations. In this special issue we set the focus on methods defining how to analyze, design and engineer enterprise / organizational artifacts. The construction of enterprises and their organizations has been designated as business engineering, enterprise engineering and organizational engineering, just to mention a few designations. In this context, engineering refers to a rather inclusive study comprising analysis, design and engineering. Regardless of the specific approach, enterprise and organizational engineering is complex activities consolidating different views, encompassing processes and sub-processes scattered within and beyond the enterprise boundaries, and representing the envisioned artifacts with different levels of abstraction. This complexity requires innovative and integrative techniques such as collaborative, participative and interactive modeling.

SUGGESTED TOPICS The following topics are suggested in the scope of this special issue as discussed above: - Analysis, design and engineering methods for enterprises and their organizations - Guidelines for organizational analysis, design and engineering methods - Frameworks for organizational analysis, design and engineering methods - Theoretical foundations for organizational analysis, design and engineering methods - Evaluation of organizational analysis, design and engineering methods - Correlation between analysis, design and engineering methods and the resulting result representation models - Collaborative, participative and interactive aspects of organizational analysis, design and engineering - Collaborative, participative and interactive modeling (CPI Modeling) - Organizational analysis, design and engineering case studies - Organizational analysis, design and engineering principles - Interplay between organizational analysis/design/engineering and enterprise models/modeling

SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS For manuscript submission, formatting and other guidelines, visit the journal website: http://www.wi-inf.uni-duisburg-essen.de/MobisPortal/index.php?lang=en&gr...

On this website: - Click the 'Submissions' tab on the left frame to open the submission page - On the submission page, first read 'Guide for Authors' - an illustrative PDF document - Then, follow the link 'Open Journal System' from the submission web page - Submission should additionally also be emailed to Antonia Albani (antonia.albani@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de) to double ensure the proper handling of the contributions.

IMPORTANT NOTES - Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted for publication elsewhere. - The review process is double blind and this is the authors responsibility to avoid indication of their names.

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