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6th International Workshop on BUSinness/IT ALignment and
Interoperability (BUSITAL 2011)

Held in conjunction with CAiSE?2011

20-24 June 2011, London, UK


http://siti-server01.siti.disco.unimib.it/busital2011/

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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.

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Topics:
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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
- Convergence and IT/Alignment
- 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

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Important dates:
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- Submission deadline: February 11, 2011

- Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2011

- Camera-Ready copy due: March 25, 2011

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Papers submission:
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We invite submissions in the form of Full papers and Short papers.
Full papers reporting the completed research, industrial case studies,
empirical studies and surveys are limited to 12 pages including all text,
figures, references and appendices.
Short papers reporting research-in-progress and problem statements are
restricted to a maximum length of 4 pages (including all text, figures,
references and appendices).

All papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.

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Guidelines for authors:
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In order to ensure a timely and smooth publication process we would kindly
ask you to follow the following instructions while submitting your paper.

1. The submitted manuscripts should comply with he Springer NLBIP
formatting rules. To prepare your initial submission, please
follow the "Default Author Instructions" at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0
2. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages for full papers and 4 pages
for short papers, including all text, figures, references and
appendices.
3. Please make sure to use the full names of all contributing authors
in the paper (first name(s) and surname).
4. Please make sure that the figures are legible also when printed in
black and white. Colored figures will only appear in the online
version of the proceedings.
5. To submit your paper, please follow the reference to the easychair
submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?iid=33693


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Program Committee
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E. Dubois Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
J. Gordijn Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
K. Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University, USA
M. Petit University of Namur, Belgium
P. Johannesson KTH Stockholm, Sweden
S. Nurcan Universit? Paris 1 ? Panth?on ? Sorbonne
Y. Pigneur University of Lausanne, Switzerland
R.J. Wieringa University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
H. Weigand Tilburg University, The Netherlands
A. Wegmann EPFL, Switzerland
J. vom Brocke University of Liechtenstein, Lichtenstein
A.M. Braccini CeRSI, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
A. Ravarini Universit? Carlo Cattaneo ? LIUC, Italy
A.L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway
E. Yu University of Toronto, Canada
A. Naumenko A?mago SA, Switzerland
M. Themistocleous University of Piraeus, Greece
J. Stirna Stockholm University
J. Zdravkovic KTH Stockholm
A. Edirisuriya University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
J. Barjis University of Delft, The Nederlands
J. Ralyte University of Geneva, Switzerland
P. van Eck University of Twente, The Netherlands


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Organization Chairs
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Irina Rychkova
Centre de Recherches en Informatique,
University Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne
irina.rychkova@univ-paris1.fr

Gianluigi Viscusi
DISCo - University of Milano- Bicocca
viscusi@disco.unimib.it

Birger Andersson
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences,
Stockholm University and Royal Institute ofTechnology
ba@dsv.su.se