[agents] Deadline Extension (to Jan 26): 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

[David Aveiro]

 Deadline Extension (to Jan 26): 4th Enterprise Engineering Working
Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

**Call for papers**

**4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - May 6-8 2014 -
Funchal
**

Important date: January 26 - Paper
submission deadline (extended)*. Proceedings published in Springer
Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBBoBCx1RCg>
(LNBIP).

Please distribute this Call for Papers among your colleagues, and/or
e-mail lists you belong to, that may be possibly interested in this
conference.

Experience the benefits of a
Working Conference, an Industry Track and a Doctoral
Consortium
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0BAhoBCx1RCg>
, 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
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CDxoBCx1RCg>
,
providing inspiration and conditions for an interesting program
with significant scientific
advancement. 

We reserve ample time
for each papers presentation and productive discussion and we will
have panel discussions every day to develop and deepen our
scientific insights. The conference will also include: an Industry
Track
- presenting real world and interesting enterprise engineering case
studies and projects; and a Doctoral
Consortium
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- if you are developing or supervising a PhD thesis
don't miss this opportunity of important and experienced feedback for
you or your supervised student.

Furthermore, we will have a rich social program
with fantastic tours everyday - before dinner - to amazing and famous
spots on the island such as: the famous Balcões
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0AABoBCx1RCg>

viewpoint, the Cabo
Girão <http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0AARoBCx1RCg>
sea cliff (one of the highest in Europe) and the Porto
Moniz natural sea water swimming pools
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0ADhoBCx1RCg>
.
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=YU0BBhoBCx1RCg>
parade - one of the major tourist attractions
of Madeira every year.

So don't miss this conference focusing on the increasingly relevant
discipline of enterprise engineering that has emerged from the
disciplines of information systems engineering and management and
organization sciences. Registration details (prices,
recommended hotels, etc.) will be announced in the beginning of
February or maybe already in the end of January.

* please do submit your abstract as soon as possible so we can
better organize our review assignments beforehand.

**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=YU0CBRoBCx1RCg>
. 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
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
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBBoBCx1RCg>

.

**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=YU0CAhoBCx1RCg>
and sign-up or sign-in, submit your abstract
and upload your paper taking in account the dates specified below.

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
 (not mandatory*)

 Paper submission:
 January 26, 2014
 (extended
deadline)

 Acceptance notification:
 February 10, 2014

 Camera ready:
 February 25, 2014

 EEWC:
 May 06-08, 2014

* please do submit your abstract as soon as possible so we can better
organize our review assignments beforehand

**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 Chairs**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal

Duarte Gouveia, 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

 Duarte Gouveia

 University of Madeira, Portugal

 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

 João Pombinho

 University of Lisbon,
Portugal

 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

 Ulrich Frank

 University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany



--
Kind regards,
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2014
www.ciaonetwork.org/eewc2014


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