[agents] 1st CfP: 1st Workshop on Enterprise Engineering Theories and Methods (WEETM 2014) @ the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2014) - July, Geneva, Switzerland

[David Aveiro]

1st
CfP: 1st Workshop on Enterprise Engineering Theories and Methods
(WEETM
2014) @ the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2014) -
July, Geneva, Switzerland
**Call for Papers**

**
1st Workshop on Enterprise Engineering Theories and Methods (WEETM
2014)**

In conjunction with the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics
(CBI 2014) <http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0HDhoAAx1RCg>
- July, Geneva, Switzerland

**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 approach.

**Goals and Scope**

The workshop's primary goal is promoting active discussions centered
on
theories and methods for the discipline of Enterprise Engineering
(EE).
We seek to develop a foundation of sound theories over which
methodologies can be built and used to effectively engineer and manage
enterprises. Hence our main scope is on the presentation, discussion
and evolution of EE theories and/or methods. These can be: (1)
inspired or related to the postulates of the

Enterprise Engineering Manifesto
 and/or the principles in the paper

A discipline
of Enterprise Engineering
 as proposed by members of the CIAO!
research
network (http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0BSlUCTlNQ
); or (2) other original EE theories and/or methods. The CIAO! network
aims
at disseminating and developing EE with sound theories as a base and,
with this workshop, seeks
constructive discussion within the network itself and with other
groups
and individuals interested to contribute to the body of knowledge of
the EE discipline.

**Submissions

**

Currently proposed EE-theories by the CIAO! network are divided in
four
categories: philosophical, ontological, ideological and technological.
The CIAO! internet forum
(http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0GBxoAAx1RCg
) provides research documentation for download
as well as an active discussion forum on topics related to these
theories and other EE topics.

Having this context in mind, we look for submissions of research
papers of three types: (1) that
improve current CIAO! EE-theories or propose other EE-theories that
enrich the EE discipline; (2) that propose methods based on CIAO! or
other EE-theories; and (3) application or usage of CIAO! or other
EE-theories.

**
Journal Publication**

Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended and
revised versions of their work to a Special Issue on Enterprise
Engineering Theories and Methods of the
International Journal on Organization Design and Engineering
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0HDxoAAx1RCg>
(IJODE). These extended papers will be target of a new peer review
process.

**
Topics and submission process**

Topics of interest to this workshop 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 EngineeringEnterprise GovernanceEnterprise
Modeling and SimulationEnterprise OntologyInformation System
ArchitecturesInformation System OntologiesInformation Systems
DesignInformation Systems DevelopmentModeling (cross-enterprise)
Business ProcessesParticipatory SystemsReference Models for
(cross-enterprise) Business ProcessesService Oriented
ArchitectureService Oriented Design

Papers have to be submitted in PDF format. The results described must
be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions
must
conform to IEEE camera-ready format and should not exceed 10 pages,
including all text, figures, references and appendices. Three to five
keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of
the
abstract.

For submissions please go to our Easychair workshop page
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0GBhoAAx1RCg>
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:
 March 28, 2014
 (not mandatory*)

 Paper submission:
 April 4, 2014

 Acceptance notification:
 May 1, 2014

 Camera ready:
 May 15, 2014

 WEETM:
 July 14-17, 2014

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

**Workshop format

**

The workshop will prioritize discussion time over presentation time.

We aim either for a half-day workshop session with 4 paper
presentations or for a full day with 8 to 10 paper presentations.

The first or only session will have the following structure:

 Workshop opening (10 min) - presentation of workshop goals, topics
and format; short introduction of all workshop participants
 Paper presentations - (120 min) 4 papers with 30 min/paper (20 min
presentation + 10 min Q&A)
 Coffee-break (20 min)
 
Keynote address (30 min: 25 min presentation + 5 min Q&A)
 Round-table discussion - 60 min

In case there are sufficient papers for a full day workshop, then the
second session will share a similar structure: more paper
presentations
and another keynote address followed by another round table
discussion.

The round-table discussion(s) will be previously prepared by the
organizers and will be directed towards addressing a set of of topics
posted on the workshop website beforehand and, if possible, related
with the papers to be presented. The keynote address presentation(s)
will also, if possible, be adjusted to the topics of interest target
of
the workshop's papers so that the round-table discussions following
them are lively and informed. Moreover, the presented papers will be
also distributed beforehand to all registered workshop participants to
foster discussion and promoting a spirited discussion giving body to
this workshop's goals.

**Organization and Program co-chairs**

Artur Caetano, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon,
Portugal

David Aveiro, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University
of Madeira, Portugal

**
Advisory Board**

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Jan Dietz, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Jan Hoogervorst, Antwerp Management School, Belgium

Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Jorge Sanz, IBM Research at Almaden, California US

José Tribolet, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon,
Portugal

**Program Committee**

To be available soon



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Kind regards,
David Aveiro
Program Chair of the 1st Workshop on Enterprise Engineering Theories and
Methods (WEETM 2014)
www.ciaonetwork.org/weetm2014


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