BMSD 2016 - 6th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2016)

6th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2016) will be organized on 20-22 June 2016, in Rhodes (Greece).
Details can be found at: http://www.is-bmsd.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 7 March 2016; Notification of acceptance: 19 April 2016; Final paper submission and registration: 2 May 2016.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
BMSD is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together Researchers and Practitioners interested in:
(i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Model-Driven Engineering;
(ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation;
(iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design.
Since 2011, we have enjoyed five successful BMSD editions, namely: Sofia'11, Geneva'12, Noordwijkerhout'13, Luxembourg'14, and Milan'15. In 2016, BMSD will go to
Rhodes, Greece, organized by IICREST and co-organized by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Chair:
Dr. Boris Shishkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / IICREST, Bulgaria
Keynote Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Jan Juerjens, TU Dortmund, Germany
Dr. Mathias Kirchmer , BPM-D, USA
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Topics for submissions include (but are not limited to):
BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS
Business Analysis - Value Models and Process Models
Essential Business Models
Re-Usable Business Models
Relating Business Goals to Requirements
Business Process Coordination
Business Entities and Business Roles
Business Data and Semantics
Business Processes and Business Rules
Behavior Modeling and Pragmatics
Identification and Elicitation of Requirements
Domain-Imposed and User-Defined Requirements
Requirements Analysis
BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES
Business Modeling and Service Science
Relating Business Goals to the Identification of Services
Service Modeling - Technology-Independent & Platform-Specific
Business Rules and Service Composition
Autonomic Service Behavior
Context-Aware Service Behavior
Re-Usable Service Models
BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE
Business Modeling -Driven Derivation of Software
Business Innovation and Software Evolution
Business-IT Alignment and Traceability
Re-Usable Business Models and Software Components
Business Rules and Software Specification
Business Goals and Software Integration
Autonomic and Context-Aware Business/Software Systems
Affective Computing and User-Aware Software Systems
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES
Enterprise Architectures
Service-Oriented Architectures
Architectural Styles
Architectural Viewpoints
Crosscutting Concerns.
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AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Types of contributions:
Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished;
Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about and issue;
Invited Papers - submitted by best paper authors and BMSD former/future Keynotes.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to the SCITEPRESS format and should not exceed 8 pages.
More information can be found at: http://www.is-bmsd.org/SubissionGuidelines.htm
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PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented at BMSD 2016 and included in the symposium proceedings, published by SCITEPRESS.
Revised and extended versions of the best BMSD'16 papers will be published in 2017 by Springer-Verlag, in an LNBIP Series book.