The EMISA 2014 workshop, entitled "Evolution of Information Systems and their Design Methods", will be held in Luxembourg from 25th to 26th September 2014.

At the beginning of the 3rd millennium, Digital Information Systems rule our economies, and have reshaped our social and everyday life, especially with the advent of the Internet and the cheap and ubiquitous access to its countless services – services that require well-designed, cost-efficient information systems at the provider side.

EMISA has been focusing very successfully on Information Systems Design for 35 years now. This year’s anniversary conference will be an excellent opportunity to draw a balance on what has been achieved (and not), and what is state-of-the-art in the domain of information systems modelling and methodologies. Based on this “where are we?” consideration, the question of “where do we go?” will be equally interesting. What are current and foreseeable future trends in Information Systems, and what is the impact on modelling? On-going technology changes like mobile and cloud computing, and still evolving new methodological approaches like service oriented and model-driven architectures have already been discussed at EMISA. Others tendencies like Enterprise Social Networking, Internet of Things, Big Data, Open Data, and Visual Analytics are changing Information System landscapes and enterprise architectures. Do we have the right methods and tools to design the new and emerging systems?

The EMISA 2014 Program Committee invites scientific submissions and experience papers in all areas of enterprise modelling and information systems architectures, as well as submissions related to the anniversary theme of the conference. Given the connecting character of Luxembourg, we encourage specifically submissions from French speaking communities (conference language is English).

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Subjects and topics
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EMISA 2014 is the sixth international workshop in a series that provides a key forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of enterprise modelling and the design of information system (IS) architectures. The workshop series emphasizes a holistic view on these fields, fostering integrated approaches that address and relate business processes, business people and information technology. EMISA’14 will provide an international forum to explore new avenues in enterprise modelling and the design of IS architectures by combining the contributions of different schools of Information Systems, Business Informatics, and Computer Science.

The EMISA’14 workshop is open for a broad range of subjects and welcomes scientific submissions as well as experience papers on enterprise modelling and information systems architectures.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Enterprise modelling: languages, methods, tools
• Patterns for enterprise modelling and IS architectures
• Model life cycle management and model evolution
• Model configuration and management of model variants
• Model quality: metrics, case studies, experiments
• Process modelling and process-aware IS
• Collaborative enterprise modelling
• Model-driven architectures and model-driven IS development
• Component- and service-oriented software architectures
• Service engineering and evolution
• Service composition, orchestration and choreography
• Complex event processing and event-driven architectures
• Human factors in enterprise modelling and IS
• Modelling social information and enterprise innovation networks
• Cloud computing infrastructures and their influence on IS engineering
• Security and trust aspects
• Mobile enterprise services
• Individual-based IS strategies
• Software product line architectures and modelling
• Visual aspects of modelling and modelling languages
• IS for large scale data and related design questions

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Important dates
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EMISA 2014: September 25-26, 2014
Submission deadline: May 30, 2014
Notification: July 4, 2014
Final version: July 25, 2014
Doctoral Workshop: September 26, 2014

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Programme Co-Chairs
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• Fernand Feltz (Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg)
• Bela Mutschler (University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten)
• Benoît Otjacques (Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg)

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Programme Committee
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• Witold Abramowicz (University of Poznan)
• Antonia Albani (University of St.Gallen)
• Thomas Allweyer (University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern)
• Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim)
• Lars Bækgaard (University of Aarhus)
• Ulrike Baumoel (University of Hagen)
• Khalid Benali (University of Lorraine)
• Martin Bertram (Commerzbank, Frankfurt)
• Patrick Delfmann (European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS))
• Jörg Desel (University of Hagen)
• Eric Dubois (Centre de Recherche Public - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
• Thomas Engel (University of Luxembourg)
• Werner Esswein (Technical University of Dresden)
• Ulrich Frank (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Andreas Gadatsch (University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)
• Norbert Gronau (University of Potsdam)
• Heinrich Jasper (Technical University of Freiberg)
• Reinhard Jung (University of St.Gallen)
• Dimitris Karagiannis ((University of Vienna)
• Stefan Klink (University of Karlsruhe)
• Ralf Klischewski (German University of Kairo)
• Horst Kremers (CODATA, Germany)
• John Krogstie (University of Trondheim)
• Susanne Leist (University of Regensburg)
• Heinrich C. Mayr (Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt)
• Jan Mendling (University of Vienna)
• Mirjam Minor (University of Frankfurt)
• Bernd Müller (University of Applied Sciences Wolfenbüttel)
• Volker Nissen (Technical University of Ilmenau)
• Markus Nüttgens (University of Hamburg)
• Andreas Oberweis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Sven Overhage (University of Augsburg)
• Hansjuergen Paul (Institute for Work and Technology)
• Erik Proper (Centre de Recherche Public - Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
• Michael Rebstock (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt)
• Manfred Reichert (University of Ulm)
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Vienna)
• Peter Rittgen (University of Boras)
• Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology)
• Matti Rossi (Aalto University)
• Frank Rump (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer)
• Gunter Saake (University of Magdeburg)
• Eike Schallehn (University of Magdeburg)
• Carlo Simon (Provadis University of Applied Sciences)
• Elmar J. Sinz (University of Bamberg)
• Stefan Strecker (University of Hagen)
• Oliver Thomas (University of Osnabrueck)
• Klaus Turowski (University of Magdeburg)
• Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente)
• Gottfried Vossen (University of Münster)
• Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck)
• Hans Weigand (University of Tilburg)
• Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam)


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Doctoral Workshop
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A Doctoral Workshop will be held together with EMISA 2014, intended for PhD candidates in Computer Science preparing a thesis on a subject relevant to the domain of the Conference. The workshop will allow the PhD candidates at any stage of their research to share experience and receive constructive feedback. Interested participants will be asked to submit an extended abstract presenting the thesis subject and progress, for review by a scientific committee. A specific call for PhD abstracts will be published in due time.

For more information about the Doctoral Workshop, please contact:

ghoniem@lippmann.lu or tamisier@lippmann.lu and check the conference website.