Call-for-Chapters CAiSE 2009 - Industrial Track - and PRET 2009 - Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation

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CAiSE 2009 - Industrial Track - Call-for-Chapters
PRET 2009 - Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation

Modern day enterprises, be they businesses, organisations, or
government departments, are in a constant state of flux. New
technologies, new markets, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions,
etcetera are among the "usual suspects" which require enterprises
to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new
realities. Most information systems practitioners will find themselves
working in a context of enterprise transformation. One could even go
as far as to claim that a business oriented perspective on information
systems is really about enterprise transformation, where enterprise
transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from
enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, enterprise architecture,
and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise
transformation requires a close interaction between practice and
academia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-
life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where
challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers.

The industrial track at the 2009 CAiSE conference focuses on
enterprise transformation. The track will run in parallel to the main
conference and will be filled with key-note speakers, paper sessions,
and poster sessions, which cater to both an industrial and academic
audience. To further stimulate the exchange between academia and
industry, the industrial track will also be combined with an
industrial exhibition.

More information is available on:
- http://www.mastering-ea.eu/pret

CALL-FOR-CHAPTERS
Linked to the industrial track a book will be published in Springer's
LNBIP series (http://www.springer.com/series/7911) as part of the
Advances in Enterprise Engineering sub-series. This book will comprise
of chapters (of about 20 pages) concerned with different aspects of
enterprise transformation.

We invite authors to submit chapter (proposals) which clearly bridge
the gap between industry and academia. For example, by providing
practical insights, evaluations of theories in terms of experiences
from real-life practice or identify practice-driven challenges for
further research. Most importantly, the chapters should be appealing
to both an industrial and an academic audience. The authors of al l
accepted chapters are expected to present a poster at the event. In
addition, the authors of about four chapters will be invited to give a
45 minute presentation on their
chapter.

TOPICS
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
- Architecture governance
- Business-IT alignment
- Business process modelling
- Business rules
- Collaborative and/or participative modelling
- Enterprise architecture
- Enterprise architecture frameworks
- Enterprise architecture management
- Enterprise engineering
- Enterprise modelling
- Enterprise modelling languages
- Enterprise ontologies
- Enterprise splitting and allying
- ERP implementation
- Design authorities
- Managing/governing enterprise evolution
- Outsourcing of business processes and/or system development
- Requirements management
- Roles and skills in enterprise transformation
- Service-oriented architecture (wrt the enterprises and/or its
applications).
- Simulation of enterprise designs and models
- Stakeholder management
- Technology impact assessment "Game changing technologies"
- Transformation, program and pro ject management
- The impact of open source software development on enterprise
development.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Chair: Erik Proper, Capgemini and Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
- Egon Berghout, M&I/Partners and University of Groningen, The
Netherlands
- Frank Harmsen, Capgemini and University of Maastricht, The
Netherlands
- Nico Lassing, Accenture, The Netherlands
- Bas van der Raadt, Capgemini, The Netherlands

Further information from:
 Erik Proper ([email protected])

THE EVENT
A one day event on Thursday 11th of June, organised in conjunction
with the 2009 CAiSE conference in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. The industrial track will have its own registration.
At the day of the industrial track, all visitors
to the CAiSE conference will be allowed to visit the industrial track,
and vice versa.
The final program of the industrial track will include:
1. Keynote speakers.
2. Poster sessions of the chapters included in the book.
3. Presentations of the authors of selected chapters in the book.
4. Industrial exhibition.
5. Conference dinner at the Amsterdam concert-hall (The Concertgebouw).

ENDORSEMENTS
* Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE,
http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/)
* IFIP Working Group 8.1 (http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/ifip81)
* The Benelux Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS,
http://home.aisnet.org/)
* The Netherlands Architecture Forum (NAF, http://www.naf.nl)
* The GI-Fachgruppe 'Informationssystem-Architekturen: Modellierung
betrieblicher Informationssysteme' (MobIS) of the German Computer
Society (http://www.wi-inf.uni-duisburg-essen.de/MobisPortal)
* Via Nova Architectura (http://www.via-nova-architectura.org/)

SUBMISSION CONDICTIONS

Abstracts, as well as the chapters, should be submitted in PDF format
to: ([email protected]). The results described must be unpublished
and must not be under review elsewhere.  The camera-ready copy of
accepted chapters must conform to Springer's LNBIP format (which
differs from LNCS!). Authors should expect their chapter not to exceed
20 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices.

Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at
the end of the abstract.

KEY DATES
October 1th, 2008 Deadline for submission of abstract.
November 1th, 2008 Invitation to submit chapters.
January 1th, 2009 Deadline for submission of chapter.
February 15th, 2009 Notification of acceptance plus selection of
chapters to be presented.
March 15th, 2009 Camera-ready copies due.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
1. Anne Persson (University of Skovde, Sweden)
2. Bas van Gils (Strategyworks, The Netherlands)
3. Bas van der Raadt (Capgemini, The Netherlands)
4. Camille Salinesi (University of Paris 1, France)
5. Denis Verhoef (Kirkman Company, The Netherlands)
6. Egon Berghout (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
7. Erik Proper (Capgemini and Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)
8. Frank Harmsen (Capgemini and University of Maastricht, The
Netherlands)
9. Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
10. Gregor Engels (SDM and University of Paderborn, Germany)
11. Ha jo Reijers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
12. Hans Mulder (VIA Groep and University of Antwerp, Belgium)
13. Henry Franken (BizzDesign, The Netherlands)
14. Jaap Gordijn (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
15. Jan Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
16. Jan Hoogervorst (Sogeti, The Netherlands)
17. Jan Mendling (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
18. Johan Versendaal (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
19. Marc Lankhorst (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands)
20. Marta Indulska (University of Queensland, Australia)
21. Nico Lassing (Accenture, The Netherlands)
22. Patricia Lago (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
23. Pnina Soffer (University of Haifa, Israel)
24. Raymond Slot (Capgemini, The Netherlands)
25. Robert Winter (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
26. Sadie Legard (Corus, United Kingdom)
27. Stefan Strecker (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany)
28. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
29. Wolfgang Hesse (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)

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On behalf of the organising committee,
Dr. Stefan Strecker, Postdoctoral Researcher
Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling Research Group
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems
University Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Germany

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