[agents] Call for participation: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

[David Aveiro]

 Call for participation: 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference
- Madeira Island - Portugal (EEWC 2014)

**Call for participation**

**4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - May 5-8 2014 -
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal

**
Experience the benefits of a
Working Conference, an Industry Track and a Doctoral
Consortium
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, 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 (see hotel image below) with breath taking
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,
providing inspiration and conditions for an interesting program
with significant scientific
advancement.

Conference program - including accepted
papers
, keynote
lectures
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- and registration
form
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are already available.
We have a very interesting set of papers to be presented, as well as
two thrilling key note lectures, namely: Toward a more Versatile and
Productive Use of Enterprise Models:
Prospects of Power Modelling
by Ulrich
Frank  Chair of Information
Systems and Enterprise Modelling at the University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany; and Engineering Enterprises for the New Economy: Whitening
the Black
Boxes for Survival
by Jorge Sanz  Director of the Business
Analytics Center of the National University of Singapore and Chief
Innovation
Officer for Retail Banking of IBM Corporation. See abstracts and short
bios here
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.

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 including two
fantastic tours in two of the conference days - before dinner
- to amazing
spots on the island such as: the famous Balcões
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viewpoint, the Cabo
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sea cliff (one of the highest in Europe) and the Porto
Moniz natural sea water swimming pools
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. If you come a couple of days earlier, you will be able to attend
the Madeira
Flower Festival
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parade
- one of the major tourist attractions
of Madeira every year. There will be alternative social programs, for
accompanying persons that won't be present at the conference sessions,
which will be announced soon.

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.

Very special rates are offered in
the official conference venue hotel  Vida
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(5 stars - see image below)  and
also on other hotels that are conference partners (4 and 3 stars). You
can also request our partner travel agency (that will take care of
registration and payments) to also find a suitable flight for you to
Madeira island. So in one single form and payment you may be able to
take care
of registration fees, accommodation, airport transfers and flights.
See
details in the online registration form
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.
A reduced conference fee for early registration is available. Namely,
until end of February it is 350¬; until end of March 375¬; and, until
near the conference date, it will be 400¬. Bank transfer and credit
cards are accepted. Below you will find this conference's motivation,
topics and chairs/program committee.

**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 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.

**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**

Alberto Silva
INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

Artur Caetano
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Bernhard Bauer
University of Augsburg, Germany

Birgit Hofreiter
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Carlos Páscoa
Portuguese Air Force Academy, Portugal

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

Geert Poels
University of Gent, Belgium

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

Martin Op t Land
Capgemini, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Belgium

Maurício Almeida
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Miguel Mira da Silva
INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

Natalia Aseeva
Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Niek Pluijmert
INQA Quality Consultants, The Netherlands

Nuno Castela
Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal

Olga Oshmarina
Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Paul Johanesson
Stockholm University, Sweden

Pedro Sousa
INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

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

Sérgio Guerreiro
Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

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

Wolfgang Molnar
Public Research Centre  Henri Tudor, Luxembourg



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Kind regards,
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC
2014)
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