[agents] Call for participation: 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference - Prague - Czech Republic (EEWC 2015)

[David Aveiro]

 Call for participation: 5th Enterprise Engineering Working
Conference - Prague - Czech Republic (EEWC 2015)

**Call for participation**

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

**

You are hereby cordially invited to
participate in the 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC
2015) that we are happy to announce that is happening from June 15th to
19th in Prague, Czech Republic.

Please read and forward this to whoever may be interested in the
conference.
The Call for Papers follows below.

We will have a very interesting program during the conference week. We
start with the 15th CIAO! Doctoral Consortium on Monday June 15th. The
titles and abstracts of the very interesing PhD thesis to be
presented/discussed, as well as the list of accepted papers in the main
conference are already available here
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0LBhoHCx1RCg>
.

The main conference days are on Tuesday and Wednesday with paper
sessions combined with an Industrial Track. On Tuesday we will
have a very interesting Keynote presentation by Janis Stirna, Professor
at Stockholm University, Sweden: "Capability
Driven Development of Context-aware Enterprise Applications –
Challenges, Approach and Experiences". The Industry Track will
also have a Keynote presentation by Tomas Formanek - CEO and R&D
Director of Logio <http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0LBxoHCx1RCg>
: "Simplicity - One thing in today’s
complexity". See abstracts and bios of the speakers here
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0LBBoHCx1RCg>
.

The conference papers and industrial track presentations will
provide current valuable insights from both theory and practice. We
reserve ample time for each paper’s presentation and productive
discussion and we will have panel discussions every day to develop and
deepen our scientific insights. Additionally, we will have nice social
events in most evenings :-) Check the full program overview and details
here
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0LBhoHCx1RCg>
.

Thursday and Friday are reserved for more intense research
presentations/discussions from members of our CIAO! research community,
but also open to general conference participants.

So don't miss this conference benefiting from real working and
productive sessions and focusing on the increasingly relevant
discipline of enterprise engineering that has emerged from the
disciplines of information systems engineering and management and
organization sciences.

You can register for the conference here
<http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=YU0LBRoHCx1RCg>
.

Please forward this message to your colleagues that might be interested
in participating.

If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,

David Aveiro, on behalf of the EEWC 2015 Organization:

*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, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium 

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

*Organization Chairs*

Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 

Michal Valenta, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

**Call for Papers**

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

**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=YU0CBRoHCx1RCg>
. 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=YU0CBBoHCx1RCg>
“.

**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=YU0FDxoHCx1RCg>
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 15-17, 2015

 EEWC Ciao! Research Discussion Sessions:
 June 18-19, 2015

**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, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium 

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

**Organization Chairs**

Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 

Michal Valenta, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
Republic

**Program Committee**

 Bernhard Bauer
 University of Augsburg, Germany

 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

 Eric Dubois
 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

 Erik Proper
 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

 Florian Matthes
 Technical University Munich, Germany

 Frank Harmsen
 Maastricht University and Ernst & Young Advisory

 Geert Poels
 University of Gent, Belgium

 Gil Regev
 École Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, 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

 Jens Gulden
 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 João Pombinho
 University of Lisbon, Portugal

 Johann Eder
 University of Klagenfurt, Austria

 Joop de Jong
 Mprise, The Netherlands

 José Tribolet
 INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

 Junichi Iijima
 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 Khaled Gaaloul
 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

 Marcello Bax
 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Maurício Almeida
 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

 Miguel Mira da Silva
 INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

 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

 Peter Loos
 University of Saarland, Germany

 Philip Huysmans
 University of Antwerp, Belgium

 Robert Lagerström
 KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

 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
 HAN University of Applied Sciences

 Sybren de Kinderen
 University of Luxembourg

 Ulrich Frank
 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 Ulrik Franke
 Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden






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