Workshop Description:

A growing number of groups around the world design, in a variety of application domains, their individual modelling methodologies in addition to the standard ones. Although there are a lot of prototypical implementations there is no conclusive answer on how meta-modelling concepts and meta-modelling platforms address challenges that arise when it comes to implementing theoretical method specifications as an IT-based modelling technique.

Thus the workshop aims to offer a forum where researchers can exchange ideas and start or expand cooperation with like-minded colleagues on these topics.

Organisers:

1. Prof. Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
2. Prof. Xavier Franch, Politechnical University of Catalunya, Spain

Responsible for organisation and communication:

1. Alexander Bergmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
2. Elena-Teodora Miron, University of Vienna, Austria

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 25^th of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 14^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 30^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://www.openmodels.at/web/CAISE2011-CMM-Workshop

Workshop Description:

Domain Specific Engineering (DsE) is concerned with building reusable assets, such as specification sets, patterns, and components, in specific domains. A domain in this context can be defined as an area of knowledge that uses common concepts for describing phenomena, requirements, problems, capabilities, and solutions. The purpose of domain specific engineering is to identify, model, construct, catalog, and disseminate artifacts that represent the commonalities and differences within a domain. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of domain specific engineering in order to define the topic, identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, and discuss visions for the future of the area.

Organisers:

1. Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Isreal
2. Arnon Sturm, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
3. Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada
4. Jorn Bettin, Sofismo, Switzerland
5. Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK
6. Sholom Cohen, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 25^th of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 20^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://www.bgu.ac.il/~sturm/DsE@CAiSE11/

Workshop Description:

IN2SP aims to apply and deepen our theoretical understanding of pragmatics by dealing with new Internet challenges such as the Internet of Things Relating to the 2010 conference theme "Information Systems in a diverse world" IN2SP specifically addresses the tension between universal standards, interoperability requirements and ontology integration on the one hand, and local particularities, contextualization and ontology divergence on the other.

Organisers:

1. Dr. Hans Weigand (), Tilburg University, The Netherlands <>
2. Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 25^th of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 21^st of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 28^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/eriss/binary/CfP_IN2SP.pdf

Workshop Description:

Modern large-scale IS engineering projects typically involve the cooperation of a wide range of systems and tools that use different technical platforms and heterogeneous data models. Today’s system integration technologies are suitable to bridge most of the technical and semantic gaps between these systems and tools. However, error-prone and time-consuming human work (e.g., manually copying information from one tool to another) is often needed to handle integration concerns at the interfaces of the different tools. The goal of the workshop is the investigation of methods and techniques for the technical and semantic integration of multi-vendor (heterogeneous) engineering tools to improve effectiveness and efficiency of engineering projects.

Organisers:

1. Thomas Moser
2. Richard Mordinyi
3. Tanja Vos

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 01^st of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 04^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 25^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

This workshop will explore the ways in which ontologies can help to shape Information Systems Engineering so as to more effectively evolve software solutions that align with organisational requirements and address the issues emerging from large complex families of IT systems. The workshop is aimed at promoting and investigating Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering by bringing together interested researchers and industrial practitioners.

Organisers:

1. Sergio de Cesare (), Brunel University, U.K.
2. Frederik Gailly (), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
3. Mark Lycett (), Brunel University, U.K.
4. Grant Holland (), NuTech Solutions, U.S.A.
5. Chris Partridge (), BORO Solutions, U.K.

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Paper abstracts: 14^th of February 2011
• Submission deadline: 21^st of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 7^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 28^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

The Fifth ONTOSE Workshop is continuing the effort of previous editions in forming a community of researchers interested in systems representations from a pluri-disciplinary and multi-perspective position. The Workshop is centered in the role of abstraction in man-made systems (as complex Information Systems), social systems (as organizations, social networks or service systems) or natural systems (as environmental or ecological systems) and on how these abstractions are useful for practical purposes in advanced Information Systems. Abstraction is represented in models of various kinds, be them graphical or using formal languages as in the case of ontologies. ONTOSE is aimed at providing a truly inter-disciplinary forum for researchers coming from very diverse fields, and as such encourages cross-fertilization and applied submissions.

Program co-chairs:

1. Miguel-Angel Sicilia (contacting/corresponding organizer) <>, Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona km. 33.6, 28871 Alcalá Henares (Madrid), SPAIN.
   
2. Christian Kop <>, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Institute for Applied Informatics / Application Engineering, Universitätsstrasse 65 – 67, 9020 Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA.
   
3. Fabio Sartori <>, Department of Computer Science. Systems and Communication (DISCO), University of Milan-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336, 20126 Milan, ITALY.
   

Organization Chair:

1. Maria-Cruz Valiente <>, Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona km. 33.6, 28871 Alcalá Henares (Madrid) , SPAIN.
   

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 21^st of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 13^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 27^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

The first edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Search over the Web (SSW) will discuss about data management issues related to the search over the web and the relationships with semantic web technologies, proposing new models, languages and applications. The research issues can be summarized by the following problems:

1. How can we model and efficiently access large amounts of semantic web data?
2. How can we effectively retrieve information exploiting semantic web technologies?
3. How can we employ semantic search in real world scenarios?

Organisers:

1. Roberto De Virgilio
2. Paolo Cappellari
3. Mark Roantree

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Paper (Poster) submission: 21^st of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 25^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 01^st of April 2011
• Workshop dates: 20^th of June 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

Nowadays, a sustainable competitive advantage is strictly related to capabilities of organizations to anticipate the constantly evolving business and technological environment, where business-IT alignment and interoperability are key success factors.

This workshop will contribute to creation of a structured body of knowledge on the existing academic and industrial approaches to business-IT alignment that would help (a) the practitioners to better estimate their needs and, based on these needs, to select or elaborate their strategies of business-IT alignment; (b) the researchers to get a better understanding of the problems encountered by practitioners and to improve their methodologies and approaches accordingly.

We invite submissions of high quality original papers reporting a synergy of innovative research and best practices on the following topics:

• Methodologies, frameworks, and tools for modeling, validation, and support of Business/IT alignment
• Qualitative and quantitative approaches for measuring Business/IT alignment
• Taxonomies for Business/IT alignment classification
• Business/IT alignment maturity models
• Constraints and issues associated with Business/IT alignment (e.g. cultural, technical, economical, legal, political, etc.)
• Business/IT alignment in organizational networks, including private and public sector
• Case studies, empirical reports, and industrial surveys illustrating success factors, challenges and failures of alignment

Organisers:

1. Irina Rychkova, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
2. Gianluigi Viscusi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
3. Birger Andersson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 21^st of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 25^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 01^st of April 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

IWSSA workshop specially focuses on the enactment/connection of the different kinds of system and software requirements into/to concrete design issues (decisions, guidelines, paradigms, etc.) for system/software architectures. In particular, the workshop stresses the importance of non-functional requirements analysis for successful architectural designs. Techniques, methodologies and processes to address this topic will be presented and discussed at the workshop.

Organisers:

1. Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)
2. Kawtar Benghazi, University of Granada (Spain)
3. Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler (USA)
4. Manuel Noguera, University of Granada (Spain)

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Paper Submission deadline: 23^th of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 16^th of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 23^rd of March 2011

Workshop Website:

Workshop Description:

The importance of governance and compliance is well recognized in enterprise systems and has increased drastically over the years as a result some of the largest scandals in corporate history. With increasing regulatory requirements comes an increase in complexity of facilitation of compliant business processes, and an increased reliance on technology to facilitate compliance management. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers from diverse areas and make a consolidated contribution in the form of new and extended methods and technologies that address the challenges of governance, risk and compliance in information systems.

Organisers:

1. Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
2. Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
3. Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
4. Sietse Overbeek, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 28^th of February 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 21^st of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 28^th of March 2011
• Workshop: (20-21) of June 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grcis2011

Workshop Description:

Information systems security problems are currently a widespread and growing concern that covers most of the areas of society, such as business, domestic, financial, government, healthcare, and so on. The scientific community is beginning to realize the importance of aligning information systems engineering and security engineering in order to develop more secure information systems.

This Workshop expands the vision of the Information System (IS) engineering from a perspective of security. It aims to identify current research on methods, models, and tools for IS security and to bring together researchers and practitioners who want to discuss key issues in IS security engineering.

Workshop co-chairs:

1. Nadira Lammari (), CEDRIC-CNAM. 292 Rue Saint Martin. 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France
2. Dr. David G. Rosado (), University of Castilla-La Mancha. Paseo de la Universidad, 4. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Steering committee:

1. Dr. Jan Jürjens (), Technical University of Dortmund. 44221 Dortmund, Germany
2. Nora Cuppens (), LUSSI/SERES Telecom-Bretagne. 2 Rue de La Châtaigneraie. 35576 Cesson-Sévigné, France
3. Dr. Luis Enrique Sánchez (), TUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha. Paseo de la Universidad, 4. 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 8^th of March 2011 (Extended!)
• Notification of acceptance: 21^st of March 2011
• Camera-ready papers: 28^th of March 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://gsya.esi.uclm.es/WISSE2011/

Workshop Description:

EOMAS is an annual 2-day event sponsored by CAiSE and endorsed by the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Modeling And Simulation (SIGMAS) and Delft University of Technology, and in cooperation with the Associate form Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling.

In the study of modern enterprises, their business process management, reengineering and implementation, and decision making, modeling and simulation (M&S) play a significant role.

The main focus of EOMAS is on the role, importance, and application of modeling and simulation within the extended enterprise and organizational context.

Application of modeling and simulation in this extended context involve a number of socio-technical aspects (Information Systems, Enterprise Information Systems, Software Systems, Business Systems, Business Processes, Human Interaction, etc.).

EOMAS, with its high profile publication history, is aimed to become a major outlet and networking opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in the development and application of modeling and simulation within the enterprise and organizational context.

Organisers:

1. Joseph Barjis, PhD, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2. Ashish Gupta, PhD, Associate Professor, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
3. Tillal Eldabi, PhD, Associate Professor, Brunel University, UK

Submission and Paper Acceptance Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 15^th of April 2011
• Notification date: 15^th of May 2011
• Camera-ready submission: 1^st of June 2011

Workshop Website:

• http://www.eomas.org/