[agents] Deadline Extension (to March 8): 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Prague - Czech Republic (EEWC 2015) - June 15-19

[David Aveiro]

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**Call for papers**

**5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - June 15-19 2015,
Prague, Czech Republic

**

Important date: March 8 - Paper
submission deadline (extended)*. Proceedings published in Springer Lecture
Notes in Business
Information Processing
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0CBBoHAR1RCg>
(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=YU0FDhoHAR1RCg>
in Prague, the "heart of Europe", as the capital of the
Czech Republic is often referred to. Come and visit us on a venue, that
breathes with history, architectural jewels, hearty cuisine and a
unique atmosphere, providing inspiration and conditions for an
interesting program with significant scientific advancement.

**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 by traditional programs in business schools. Such
knowledge is indeed necessary
for managing an enterprise, but it is insufficient 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 2015 is the fifth
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=YU0CBRoHAR1RCg>
. 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, Participatory, and Interactive Modeling
 Component-Based System Development
 Domain Ontologies
 Domain Reference Ontologies
 Enterprise Architecture
 Enterprise Design and Implementation

 Enterprise Governance
 Enterprise Modeling and Simulation
 Enterprise Ontology
 Information System Architectures
 Information System Ontologies
 Information Systems Design
 Information Systems Development
 Modeling (cross-enterprise) Business Processes
 Ontology Implementation

 Reference Models for (cross-enterprise) Business Processes
 Service Oriented Architecture
 Service Oriented Design

**Organization**

The 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference in 2015 follows the
successful preceding conferences in 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 and the
preceding series of workshops (CIAO!’10, CIAO!’09, CIAO!’08,
MIOS-CIAO’06, MIOS-INTEROP’05, MIOS’04) 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 2015 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=YU0CBBoHAR1RCg>
“.

**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 Springer’s 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=YU0FDxoHAR1RCg>
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:
 February 18, 2015 

 (not mandatory*)

 Paper submission:
 March 8, 2015
 (extended
deadline)

 Acceptance notification:
 March 25, 2015

 Camera ready:
 April 8, 2015

 EEWC Main program

 June 15-18, 2015

 EEWC Masterclasses 
 June 18-19, 2015

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

**Chairs**

**Advisory Board **

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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

Jan Hoogervorst, Antwerp Management School, Belgium 

Hans Mulder, University of Antwerp, Belgium

**Conference Chairs**

Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 

Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

**Program Chairs**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal 

Jorge Sanz, IBM Research at Almaden, California US

Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium 

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

**Organization Chair**

Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

**Program Committee (to be updated)**

 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
 Antwerp Management
School, Belgium

 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

 José Tribolet

 University of Lisbon, Portugal

 Joseph Barjis
 Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

 Junichi Iijima
 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 Khaled Gaaloul
 Public Research Centre – Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

 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 co-Chair of the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2015
www.ciaonetwork.org/eewc2015


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