[agents] 1st CfP: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2014)

[David Aveiro]

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**Call for papers**

**4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference**

May, 6-8, 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal

Proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBBoCCx1RCg>
(LNBIP)

**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 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
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBRoCCx1RCg>
. 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
conference,
the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014 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://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBBoCCx1RCg>

.

**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 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
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CAhoCCx1RCg>
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**

**Advisory Board **

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

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

**General Chair**

José Tribolet, INESC and Technical University of Lisbon,
Portugal

**Program Chair**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

**Organization Chair**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

**Program Committee (to be confirmed)**

 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

 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



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Kind regards,
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014
http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CAxoCCx1RCg


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