CALL FOR PAPERS CAiSE'10

The 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering (CAiSE'10)
7-11 June 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia

http://www.caise2010.rnu.tn

Evolving Information Systems

This year's special theme is "Evolving information systems".
Modern information systems are the result of the interconnection of systems of many organizations, are running in variable contexts, and require both a lightweight approach to interoperability and the capability to actively react to changing requirements and failures.
In addition, users of information systems are becoming more and more mobile and ubiquitous, requiring the system to adapt to their varying usage contexts and goals.
The evolution of an information system should be a continuous process rather than a single step, and it should be inherently supported by the system itself and the design of the information system should consider evolution as an inherent property of the system.
The special events and invited speakers of CAiSE '10 will shed light on this theme from various perspectives.

Goal: CAiSE'10 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering. CAiSE'10 invites submissions on the design, development, maintenance, and usage of information systems - and especially submissions dealing with evolving information systems.

The topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:

Methodologies and approaches for IS engineering
- Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
- Requirements engineering
- Business process modelling and management
- Simulation
- Model, component, and software reuse
- IS reengineering
- IS engineering approaches for adaptive and flexible information systems
- Service science
- Knowledge patterns and ontologies for IS engineering
- IS in networked & virtual organizations
- Method engineering

Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS engineering
- Service-oriented architecture
- Model-driven architecture
- Component based development
- Agent architecture
- Distributed, mobile, and open architecture
- Innovative database technology
- Semantic web
- IS and ubiquitous technologies
- adaptive and context-aware IS

Engineering of specific kinds of IS:
- eGovernment
- Enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, CRM)
- Data warehousing
- Workflow systems
- Knowledge management systems
- Content management systems

Quality concerns in IS engineering
- Knowledge, information, and data quality
- Quality of models and their languages
- Usability, security, trust, flexibility, interoperability

Important Dates:
Oct. 12, 2009: Tutorials & workshops submission deadline
Nov. 30, 2009: Paper submission deadline
Feb. 8, 2010: Notification of acceptance
June 7-11, 2010: Conference & workshops

Types of contributions: we invite four types of original and scientific
papers:

1. Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.

2. Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate.

3. Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own practice.

4. Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation.

Submission Conditions: Papers should be submitted in PDF format.
The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.

Publication: Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'10 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Advisory Committee
Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France

General CoChairs
Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France
Henda Ben Ghezala, ENSI, Tunisia

Program Chair
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Organisation Chair
Naoufel Kraiem, ENSI, Tunisia

Workshop and tutorial Co-Chair
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Forum Chairs
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Boualem Banatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Anne Persson, University of Skövde, Sweden

Publicity Co-Chair
Lida Xu, Old Dominion University, USA
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rim Kaabi, ENSI, Tunisia

Publication Co-Chairs
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Finance Chair
Yassine Jamoussi, ENSI, Tunisia

Local Arrangements
Malek Ghenima, ENSI, Tunisia
Semia Selmi, ENSI, Tunisia

Wemasters
Jamil Dimassi, ENSI, Tunisia
Slim Mesfar, ENSI, Tunisia

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PROGRAM BOARD

Hans Akkermans, NL
Sjaak Brinkkemper, NL
Valeria De Antonellis, Italy
Eric Dubois, Luxembourg
Marlon Dumas, Estonia
Pericles Loucopoulos, UK
Moira Norrie. Switzerland
Antoni Olive, Spain
Andreas Opdahl, Norway
Oscar Pastor Lopez, Spain
Anne Persson, Sweden
Klaus Pohl, Germany
Pnina Soffer, Israel

Program Committee

Wil van der Aalst (The Netherlands)
Pär Ågerfalk (Sweden)
Antonia Albani (The Netherlands)
Marco Bajec (Slovenia)
Luciano Baresi (Italy)
Zorah Bellahsene (France)
Boalem Benatallah (Australia)
Giuseppe Berio (France)
Claudio Bettini (Italy)
Rafik Bouaziz (Tunisia)
Nacer Boudjlida (France)
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (France)
Fabio Casati (Italy)
Silvana Castano (Italy)
Jaelson Castro (Brazil)
Corine Cauvet (France)
João Falcão e Cunha (Portugal)
Joerg Evermann (Canada)
Xavier Franch (Spain)
Mariagrazia Fugini (Italy)
Claude Godart (France)
Mohand-Said Hacid (France)
Terry Halpin (Australia)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (Australia)
Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel (The Netherlands)
Patrick Heymans (Belgium)
Yassine Jamoussi (Tunisia)
Matthias Jarke (Germany)
Paul Johannesson (Sweden)
Mārīte Kirikova (Latvia)
Naoufel Kraiem (Tunisia)
John Krogstie (Norway)
Wilfried Lemahieu (Belgium)
Michel Leonard (Switzerland)
Kalle Lyytinen (USA)
Raimundas Matulevicious (Belgium)
Andrea Maurino (Italy)
Jan Mendling (Germany)
Isabelle Mirbel (France)
Haris Mouratidis (UK)
John Mylopoulos (Canada)
Selmin Nuncan (France)
Andreas Oberweis (Germany)
Jeffrey Parsons (Canada)
Mike Papazoglou (The Netherlands)
Michael Petit (Belgium)
Yves Pigneur (Switzerland)
Geert Poels (Belgium)
Erik Proper (The Netherlands)
Jolita Ralyte (Switzerland)
Manfred Reichert (Germany)
Mark Roantree (Ireland)
Michael Rosemann (Australia)
Gustavo Rossi (Argentina)
Matti Rossi (Finland)
Motoshi Saeki (Japan)
Camille Salinesi (France)
Keng Siau (USA)
Monique Snoeck (Belgium)
Janis Stirna (Sweden)
Arnon Sturm (Israel)
Stefan Tai (Germany)
David Taniar (Australia)
Ernest Teniente (Spain)
Bernhard Thalheim (Germany)
Farouk Toumani (France)
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou (Greece)
Jean Vanderdonckt (Belgium)
Irene Vanderfeesten (The Netherlands)
Olegas Vasilecas (Lituania)
Yair Wand (Canada)
Mathias Weske (Germany)
Hans Weigand (The Netherlands)
Roel Wieringa (The Netherlands)
Carson Woo (Canada)
Eric Yu (Canada)
Didar Zowghi (Australia)