[agents] Call for Participation: 3rd Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2013)

[David Aveiro]

You are hereby cordially invited to participate in the 3rd Enterprise
Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2013) that we are happy to
announce that is happening quite soon!

Please read and forward this to whoever may be interested in the
conference. The Call for Papers follows below which is also attached
in TXT format.

We will have a very interesting program during the conference week. We
start with the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference combined with
an Industrial Track on Monday and Tuesday, May 13th and 14th. We will
have a very interesting Keynote presentation: Can we make Enterprise
Engineering into the mainstream of Management? - by Jorge Sanz, IBM,
CA, USA. The conference papers and industrial track presentations will
provide current valuable insights from both theory and practice. Do
check out the full EEWC 2013 program here:

http://ciaonetwork.org/index.php?id=113

We continue with the 13th CIAO! Doctoral Consortium on Wednesday, May
15th, titles of the presentations will be available in the program in
the end of this week.

Additionally, we will have nice social events in the evenings :-)

You can register for the conference here:

http://ciaonetwork.org/index.php?id=115

Please forward this message to your colleagues that might be
interested in participating.

If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards

--

Jan L.G. Dietz (Advisory Board)

Antonia Albani (Advisory Board)

Erik Proper (General Chair)

David Aveiro (Program Chair)

Khaled Gaaloul (Organizing Chair)

3rd Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2013)

May, 13-14, 2013, Luxembourg

Motivation

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.

Focus and Goal

The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2013 is the third
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
<http://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:

* 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 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2013 follows the
successful 1st EEWC in 2011, 2nd EEC in 2012 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 2013 is
planned to be a real working conference, providing ample time for
profound discussions following short presentations.

Publication
The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series:
"Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
<http://www.springer.com/series/7911>
".

Submission
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 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
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eewc2013>
 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 17, 2013 

 Paper submission: 
 February 03, 2013 (extended deadline)

 Acceptance notification: 
 February 18, 2013 

 Camera ready: 
 March 04, 2013 

 EEWC: 
 May 13-14, 2013 

Chairs

Advisory Board

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

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

General Chair

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Erik Proper, Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Program Chair

-----------------

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

Organizing Chair

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Khaled Gaaloul, Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Program Committee

 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 

 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 

 Joseph Barjis 
 Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 

 Junichi Iijima 
 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 

 Marielba Zacarias 
 University of Algarve, Portugal 

 Martin Op 't Land 
 Capgemini, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Belgium 

 Natalia Aseeva 
 Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 

 Olga Khvostova 
 Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 

 Paul Johanesson 
 Stockholm University, Sweden 

 Peter Loos 
 University of Saarland, Germany 

 Pnina Soffer 
 MIS department, Haifa University, Israel 

 Remigijus Gustas 
 Karlstad University, Sweden 

 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 



--
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2013
http://www.ciaonetwork.org/eewc2013