Call for papers
Motivation
Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. Agility thus has become the new guiding principle for enterprises. This requires flexible organizational structures and business processes, as well as flexible supporting information systems and a flexible ICT-infrastructure. In addition, an enterprise needs to be able to easily expand or shrink, be it through cooperation with other enterprises, through mergers or acquisitions, or through insourcing or outsourcing of services.
In order to meet these economical requirements, enterprises rely increasingly on the benefits of modern information and communication technology (ICT). However, the appropriate knowledge to deploy this technology as needed, and in an effective and efficient way, is largely lacking, particularly knowledge regarding the cooperation in and between enterprises and knowledge regarding the interoperability of their information systems.
Focus and Goal
The CIAO! workshop is a leading workshop in the emerging field of Enterprise Engineering, which is based on the notions of Enterprise Ontology and Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Ontology is conceptually defined as (the understanding of) the essence of an enterprise. Operationally, it is its highest-level constructional model, completely independent on the way in which it is implemented. Enterprise Architecture is conceptually defined as the normative restriction of design freedom. Operationally, it is the set of design principles that are applicable to the (re)design of the enterprise’s business processes, organization, information systems, etc.
The goal of the workshop is to gather academics and practitioners in order to share innovative research issues and practical experiences, and to facilitate profound discussions about these issues, in particular about the application of the notions of architecture and ontology in dealing with inter- and intra-organizational business processes and the interoperability of supporting information systems.
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Modeling (cross-enterprise) business processes
- Reference models for (cross-enterprise) business processes
- Cooperation theories (e.g., the language-action-perspective)
- Domain reference ontologies
- Enterprise ontologies
- Enterprise architectures
- Business rules
- Information system ontologies
- Information system architectures
- Component-based system development
- Ontology-based web services
- Interoperability testing and verification
- Service Oriented Architecture
Organization
We are looking for articles on current or recently finished research projects as well as articles from practitioners. Based on our inspiring experience of the 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008 workshops, the CIAO! 2009 workshop is planned again to be a real workshop, providing ample time for discussions and group works, during two days. Consequently, the paper presentations will be short, covering only the highlights. In addition, the focus of discussion will be on CIAO: the problems areas Cooperation and Interoperability, and the application of Architecture and Ontology in dealing with them.
Publication
The CIAO! workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer LNBIP series “Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing”.
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 LNBIP format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding 15 pages will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at Springer LNBIP Web page . Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.
Important Dates
Abstract submission | February 15 |
Paper submission | February 22 |
Acceptance notification | March 14 |
Camera ready | March 21 |
CIAO! workshop | June 08-09, 2009 |
CAiSE conference | June 08-12, 2009 |
Program chairs
Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl)
Chair of Information Systems Design
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan L.G. Dietz (j.l.g.dietz@tudelft.nl)
Chair of Information Systems Design
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Program Committee
Wil van der Aalst | Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands |
Joseph Barjis | Delft University of Technology |
Bernhard Bauer | University of Augsburg, Germany |
Emmanuel delaHostria | Rockwell Automation, USA |
Johann Eder | University of Klagenfurt, Austria |
Joaquim Filipe | School of Technology of Setúbal, Portugal |
Rony G. Flatscher | Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria |
Birgit Hofreiter | University of Vienna, Austria |
Jan Hoogervorst | Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands |
Christian Huemer | Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
Peter Loos | University of Saarland, Germany |
Graham Mcleod | University of Kaapstad, South Africa |
Aldo de Moor | CommunitySense, The Netherlands |
Hans Mulder | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Moira Norrie | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Martin Op ‘t Land | Capgemini, The Netherlands |
Erik Proper | Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
Gil Regev | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Itecor, Switzerland |
Pnina Soffer | MIS department, Haifa University, Israel |
Pedro Sousa | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
José Tribolet | INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Jan Verelst | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Robert Winter | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |