AgilES 2013 - The Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems

The Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES2013)
Associated to
XP2013, 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development
http://xp2013.org
June 3rd - 7th, Vienna
Paper Submission Due: 15th March, 2013
Aims and Scope
Organizations large and small, private and public, have come to rely on information systems for their day-to-day operation, planning, and decision making. As strategic and operating environments become increasingly turbulent due to the factors such as competions, regulatory changes, and technological advancements, agility, the ability to sense and react to change effectively using information technologies, has become a critical sucess factor in modern society. Yet, success is not easily achieved.
The information system of a mordern enterprise is usually a complex socio-technical system. To enable the agility of such a system is challenging and becomes an important topic for both software engineers and academic researchers. For example, it is natural to relate the process of transforming an enterprise architecture to make it ‘business agile’ to the Agile Manifesto and agile software development, which are the reflection of the agility of software development processes. The common interests of researchers and engineers are the frameworks for safely, pragmatically, and incrementally introducing agile methods to help organizations achieve their business goals.
AgilES2013, the Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems, is focused on the results of rigorous scientific research and experience of industrial practices on enterprise systems, especially on enhancing the agility of enterprise systems. In conjunction with XP2013, one of the main international agile conferences well attended by both academics and practitioners, AgilES2013 intends to bring together the researchers and practitioners working on enterprise systems and related fields to create a shared vision, and to bridge communication and understanding gaps.
To have a successful event, we both invite researchers to share their research and reviews related to the agility of enterprise systems, and encourage practitioners to submit valuable experience reports and practical insights. We especially welcome the contributions that critically reflect on the current status of research and practice on enterprise systems and agile development on topics including but not limited to:
- Agile enterprise architecture
- Agile development, adoption and transformation of enterprise system
- Agile development and service oriented architecture
- Agile development and enterprise system in future (e.g., for/in cloud computing)
Submission Guidelines
We are looking for two kinds of submissions. The first type is the original and finished research, with implications for both theory and practice. Motivation for research and discussion of the related work should be included, as well as a description of the research method applied. Regular papers must not exceed twelve (12) pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
The second type is work-in-progress, which describes new directions, synergies with other disciplines or results not mature enough to be a full papers. These ideas will be further developed with feedback actively sought from the agile practitioners. Short papers are limited to six (6) pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Papers have to be written in English and formatted according to Springer’s LNBIP format: http://www.springer.com/series/7911.
Paper submissions will be managed via the workshop submission web site using the EasyChair service: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agiles...
All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be formally evaluated by three reviewers. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the conference and participate in the workshop.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: 15th March, 2013
Notification to authors: 29th March, 2013
Camera-ready: 12th April, 2013
Workshop date: 3rd June, 2013
Workshop Organizers
Xiaocheng Ge, University of York, UK (xiaocheng.ge-AT-york.ac.uk)
Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK (n.ali2-AT-brighton.ac.uk)
Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (xiaofeng.wang-AT-unibz.it)
PC Members
Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK
Joseph Chao, Bowling Green State University, US
Torgeir Dingsøyr, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Ivan Mistrik, Independent Consultant, Germany
Richard Paige, University of York, UK
Raman Ramsin, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Juha Rikkilae, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dina Salah, University of York, UK
Carlos Solis, Amazon, Ireland
Masoumeh Taromirad, University of York, UK
Any inquries regarding the workshop, please contact one of the workshop organizers.