EEWC 2014 - 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference

4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference May, 6-8, 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
Proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)
Experience the benefits of a Working Conference in the Portuguese paradise known as the Pearl of the Atlantic and Europes Leading Island Destination of 2013 by World Travel Awards. Come and visit us on a venue with breath taking views, providing inspiration and conditions for significant scientific advancement. We reserve 60 minutes for each papers 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 parade one of the major tourist attractions of Madeira every year.
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. 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-CIAO06, MIOS-INTEROP05, MIOS04) 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.
The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springers 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 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
Jan L.G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Josó Tribolet, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
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: ócole Polytechnique Fódórale 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 Setóbal, 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
Maurócio 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 Lagerstróm: 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
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