1st of April - the Regular Paper submission (extended) deadline


Call for Papers

BMSD 2015 - FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DESIGN

6-8 July 2015
Milan, Italy

http://www.is-bmsd.org

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To download the PDF version of the BMSD'15 CfP: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/BMSD_2015_CfP.pdf
To download the BMSD'15 Poster: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/Poster.pdf
To download the BMSD'15 Flyer: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/Flyer.pdf
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Chair:
Dr. Boris Shishkov, IICREST, Bulgaria

Keynote Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (Title: Architectural Governance and Organizational Performance)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Title: Available soon)

The symposium is organized by the international institute IICREST, co-organized by Politecnico di Milano, and technically co-sponsored by BPM-D. Cooperating organizations are: AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, SIKS - the Nederlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems, CTIT - the U-Twente Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, and AMAKOTA Ltd.

BMSD is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in: (i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Model-Driven Engineering; (ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation; (iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design.

In 2015, BMSD will be held in Milan, following four previous successful editions, namely: Luxembourg 2014, Noordwijkerhout 2013, Geneva 2012, and Sofia 2011.

We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas and topics:


1. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS
Business Analysis - Value Models and Process Models
Essential Business Models
Re-Usable Business Models
Relating Business Goals to Requirements
Business Process Coordination
Business Entities and Business Roles
Business Data and Semantics
Business Processes and Business Rules
Behavior Modeling and Pragmatics
Identification and Elicitation of Requirements
Domain-Imposed and User-Defined Requirements
Requirements Analysis

2. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES
Business Modeling and Service Science
Relating Business Goals to the Identification of Services
Service Modeling - Technology-Independent & Platform-Specific
Business Rules and Service Composition
Autonomic Service Behavior
Context-Aware Service Behavior
Re-Usable Service Models

3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE
Business Modeling -Driven Derivation of Software
Business Innovation and Software Evolution
Business-IT Alignment and Traceability
Re-Usable Business Models and Software Components
Business Rules and Software Specification
Business Goals and Software Integration
Autonomic and Context-Aware Business/Software Systems
Affective Computing and User-Aware Software Systems

4. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES
Enterprise Architectures
Service-Oriented Architectures
Architectural Styles
Architectural Viewpoints
Crosscutting Concerns


Key dates
Paper submission deadline: 9 March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2015
Final paper submission: 4 May 2015

Types of contributions
Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished
Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about an issue
Invited Papers - submitted by best papers' authors and former / future BMSD Keynote Lecturers

Paper formats
Full Papers - 10-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral presentation)
Short Papers - 6-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral presentation)
Posters - 4 page limit in the symposium proceedings (poster presentation)

How to submit a paper (7 steps)
1. View the technical scope
2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 3 and no more than 8 pages
3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper
4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org)
5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your affiliations) from the title and references sections
6. Save the file as PDF
7. e-Mail the file to: secretariat@iicrest.org by the 9th of March, putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2015, Regular / Position Paper"

Publication
Accepted papers will be presented at BMSD 2015 and included in the symposium proceedings, published by SciTePress. All presented papers will also be included in the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary) and DBLP-indexed. Finally, the authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers to a Springer LNBIP Revised Selected Papers book.

Proceedings of the previous editions
2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFourthBMSD.pdf
2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfThirdBMSD.pdf
2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfSecondBMSD.pdf
2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFirstBMSD.pdf

Some photos:
2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFourthBMSD.htm
2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryThirdBMSD.htm
2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerySecondBMSD.htm
2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFirstBMSD.htm

Venue
The BMSD sessions will be held at Aula de Donato - Politecnico di Milano. Founded in 1863, Politecnico is currently one of the most outstanding universities in Europe, ranked 28th in the world and 9th in Europe among technical universities, according to the QS World University Ranking. Milan itself is considered the Italian economic and finance center, with the headquarter of the Stock Exchange and of many of the most important industrial and financial businesses of Italy, having a population of 1.3 million. It is also the Italian symbol of fashion and design: it hosts many of the main Italian fashion maisons and international design fairs, such as “Settimana della Moda” (Milan Fashion Week) and the “Salone Internazionale del Mobile” (Milan Furniture Fair). The city offers to visitors the possibility to admire a wide range of monuments, museums and buildings reflecting the vestiges of history and culture left by the people who lived there. The ancient Roman remains, the Duomo, one of the largest cathedrals in the World and an important example of Gothic architecture in Italy. The Castello Sforzesco that hosts the Michelangelo’s “Pieta Rondanini”. The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie where is the famous masterpiece “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci. Expo 2015 is the next scheduled Universal Exposition and between 1 May and 31 October 2015 will be hosted in Milan. The Expo goal is no longer to show the latest advances in technology, but rather to address the challenges that human mankind faces nowadays. The Expo’15 theme will be: "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". It would be therefore great hosting BMSD 2015 in Milan, and particularly at Politecnico di Milano. It is worthwhile mentioning that many important scientists and architects studied and taught there, among them Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, Renzo Piano and Aldo Rossi, both Pritzker Prize winners in 1990 and 1998 respectively, and Giulio Natta, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1963. Politecnico takes part in several research and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnico’s contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America through Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe.

For more information
w: http://www.is-bmsd.org
t: +359 888 534435
e: secretariat@iicrest.org