[agents] 2nd CfP: 2nd Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2012)

[David Aveiro]

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            2nd Enterprise Engineering Working Conference
                            (EEWC 2012)

                 http://www.ciaonetwork.org/eewc2012

                          May, 07-08, 2012
                       Delft, The Netherlands

                        Proceedings published in
         Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
                                 (LNBIP)
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Motivation
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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. To do that, one needs to take a  
constructional or engineering perspective. Only engineers bring about  
changes.
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.


Focus and Goal
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2012 is the second  
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  
(www.ciaonetwork.org/publications/EEManifesto.pdf). 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:

* Enterprise Ontology
* Enterprise Architecture
* Enterprise Governance
* Enterprise modeling and simulation
* Domain ontologies
* Modeling (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Reference models for (cross-enterprise) business processes
* Business Process Management
* Business Rules Management
* Information systems design
* Information system architectures
* Component based system design
* Service Oriented Design
* Business process modeling and simulation
* Participatory systems


Organization
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The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2012 follows the  
successful 1st EEWC in 2011, and the preceding series of workshops  
(CIAO!'10, CIAO!'09, CIAO!'08, MIOS-CIAO'06, MIOS-INTEROP'05, MIOS'04)  
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  
conference, the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2012 is  
planned to be a real working conference, providing ample time for  
profound discussions following short presentations.


Publication
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The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series  
"Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing".


Submission Conditions
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Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must  
be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions  
must conform to Springer's 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. Three to five  
keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of  
the abstract.


Important Dates
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Abstract submission:		January	  16, 2012
Paper submission:		January	  22, 2012
Acceptance notification:	February  15, 2012
Camera ready:			February  22, 2012
EEWC:				May    07-08, 2012


General Chair
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Jan L.G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


Conference Chair
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Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland


Organization Chair
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Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


Program Chair
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David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal


Program Committee
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Bernhard Bauer		University of Augsburg, Germany
Birgit Hofreiter	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Christian Huemer	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dai Senoo		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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		École Polytechnique Fédérale 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 Setúbal, Portugal
Jorge Sanz		IBM Research at Almaden, California US
José Tribolet		INESC and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Junichi Iijima		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Marielba Zacarias	University of Algarve, Portugal
Martin Op't Land	Capgemini, The Netherlands
Natalia Aseeva		Higher School of Economics at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Olga Khvostova		Higher School of Economics at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Paul Johanesson		Stockholm University, Sweden
Pedro Sousa		INESC and Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Loos		University of Saarland, Germany
Pnina Soffer		MIS department, Haifa University, Israel
Robert Lagerström	KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Winter		University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Rony Flatscher		Vienna University of Economics and Business  
Administration, Austria
Sanetake Nagayoshi	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers	Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ulrich Frank		University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany