[agents] 2nd CfP: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

[David Aveiro]

 2nd CfP: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira
Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

**Call for papers**

**4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference**

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

Proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing
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(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
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by World Travel Awards
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. Come and visit us on a venue with breath taking views
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, 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 <http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0BBhoBAR1RCg>
parade  one of the major tourist attractions of Madeira every year.

**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
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. 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 ManagementBusiness Process Modeling and
SimulationBusiness RulesBusiness Rules ManagementCollaborative,
Participative, and Interactive ModelingComponent-Based System
DevelopmentDomain OntologiesDomain Reference OntologiesEnterprise
ArchitectureEnterprise GovernanceEnterprise Modeling and
SimulationEnterprise OntologyInformation System
ArchitecturesInformation System OntologiesInformation Systems
DesignInformation Systems DevelopmentInteroperability Testing and
VerificationModeling (cross-enterprise) Business
ProcessesOntology-based Web ServicesParticipatory SystemsReference
Models for (cross-enterprise) Business ProcessesService Oriented
ArchitectureService 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.

**Publication**

The EEWC proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series:

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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.

**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=YU0CAhoBAR1RCg>
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 University of Lisbon, Portugal

**Program Chair**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

**Organization Chair**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

**Program Committee**

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
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

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

Maurício 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 Lagerström
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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Kind regards,
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014
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