Final Call for Papers

Tenth International Workshop on

Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design

(EMMSAD弯b>)

Porto, Portugal

13-14 June, 2005

(held in conjunction with CAiSE婼o:p>

Submissions due: 2005 March 13

Sponsors: ࠠ쯳pan>Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE)

International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1)

Network of Excellence for Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software (INTEROP)

Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS-SIGSAND)

IFIP WG8.1 (http://www.elet.polimi.it/upload/pernici/ifip81) has sponsored this CAiSE workshop since 1997. This year, EMMSAD welcomes two new sponsors: the European INTEROP Network of Excellence (http://interop.aquitaine-valley.fr/) and the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (http://cba.fiu.edu/depts/dsis/wangte/SIGSAND/history.htm).

Background:

The field of information systems analysis and design includes numerous information modeling methods and notations (e.g. ER, ORM, UML, DFDs, Petri Nets), that are typically evolving. Even with some attempts to standardize (e.g. UML for object-oriented design), new modeling methods are constantly being introduced, many of which differ only marginally from existing approaches. These ongoing changes significantly impact the way information systems are being analyzed and designed in practice.

This workshop focuses on exploring, evaluating, and enhancing current information modeling methods and methodologies. Though the need for such studies is well recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. The objective of EMMSAD堩s to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in modeling methods in systems analysis and design to meet, and exchange research ideas and results. It also provides the participants an opportunity to present their research papers and experience reports, and to take part in open discussions. EMMSAD堩s the tenth in a very successful series of EMMSAD workshops, previously held in Crete, Barcelona, Pisa, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Interlaken, Toronto, Velden, and Riga. To mark the tenth anniversary of the workshop, this year the workshop will include one or more papers that reflect on historical trends in information modeling.

Topics of Interest:

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) theoretical and/or empirical exploration of modeling methods/methodologies, as well as case studies and experience reports related to:

Agent-oriented information systems Agile Modeling/Extreme Modeling Aspect-Oriented Modeling Business Process Modeling and Improvement Business Rule Modeling Data Warehousing and Data Mining Database Modeling and Query Languages Database Security and Integrity E-Business and M-Business Models and Architectures Enterprise Modeling, Architecture, and Governance Enterprise Systems and Supply Chain Integration Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases

Information Modeling (ER, ORM etc.) Knowledge Engineering and Management Method Engineering and Meta-modeling Mobile Information Systems Meta-modeling Model-Driven Development and Architecture Object Oriented Methods and Methodologies Ontology Modeling and the Semantic Web Requirements Engineering Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Unified Process (UP) User Interface Modeling Web Design Methods and Methodologies Workflow Modeling

Important dates (2005):

Deadline for papers (received):ࠠ March 13

Notification of acceptance:ࠠࠠ༯span>April 4

Camera-ready copies:ࠠࠠࠠࠠ༯span>April 18

Workshop:ࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠ June 13-14

Submission guidelines:

The workshop accepts two types of submissions頳tyle='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Completed Research and Research-In-Progress. Completed research papers should include analysis of data and discussion on research findings. Research-in-progress papers report on research that is well under way with preliminary results available at the time of the conference. Please use the following format for your submissions:

• For Completed Research submissions, the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references and appendices).
• For Research-In-Progress submissions, the paper should not exceed 2,500 words (excluding references and appendices).
• Include a cover page with title of paper as well as the authorses, affiliations, phones, faxes, and email addresses. The total number of words in the paper (excluding cover page, tables, and references) and the submission category (i.e. Completed Research or Research-In-Progress) should be indicated on the cover page.
• The second page should begin with the title of the paper, author names and affiliations, and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Also include keywords chosen (if possible) from the list of main topics above. The main text should follow the keywords.
• Use 10 point font for the bulk of the body text.

Only electronic submissions are accepted. E-mail your paper as an attachment in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format to terry.halpin@northface.edu.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the workshop, and should use the Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Top papers in the completed research category may also be considered (after extension and enhancement) either for chapters in a book to be edited by the conference co-chairs, or for journal publications.

Workshop co-chairs:

Dr. Terry Halpin Northface University USA

Dr. Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA

Dr. John Krogstie SINTEF and Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology Norway

Program committee:

Solomon Antony	Texas Tech University, USA
Akhilesh Bajaj	University of Tulsa, USA
Richard Baskerville	Georgia State University, USA
Dinesh Batra	Florida International University, USA
Annie Becker	Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Giuseppe Berio	University of Torino, Italy
Ilia Bider	IbisSoft, Sweden
Nacer Boudjlida	Loria, France
Paul Bowen	University of Queensland, Australia
Chan Hock-Chuan	Natioinal University of Singapore, Singapore
David Chen	University of Bordeaux, France
Roger Chiang	University of Connecticut, USA
Robert Chiang	University of Connecticut, USA
Cecil Eng Heng Chua	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Olga De Troyer	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jan Dietz	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
David Embley	Brigham Young University, USA
John Erickson	University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA
Andrew Gemino	Simon Fraser University, Canada
Joey F. George	Florida State University, USA
Ricardo Goncalves	UNINOVA, Portugal
Peter Green	University of Queensland, Australia.
Jan Goossenaerts	Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Reimgijus Gustas	Karlstad University, Sweden
Terry Halpin	Northface University, USA
Bill Hardgrave	University of Arkansas, USA
Alan Hevner	University of South Florida, USA
Paul Johanneson	Stockholm University, Sweden
Chuck Kacmar	University of Alabama, USA
Vijay Khatri	Indiana University, USA
Steven Kelly	MetaCase, Finland
Julie Kendall	Rutgers University, USA
Ken Kendall	Rutgers University, USA
Hee Woong Kim	National University of Singapore, Singapore
John Krogstie	SINTEF and NTNU, Norway
Uday Kulkarni	Arizona State University, USA
Tan Kian Lee	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yingjiu Li	Singapore Management University, Singapore
Ee-Peng Lim	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pericles Loucopoulos	University of Manchester, UK
Kalle Lyytinen	Case Western Reserve University, USA
Sal March	Vanderbilt University, USA
Graham McLeod	University of Cape Town,쯳pan>South Africa
Robert Meersman	Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Michele Missikoff	LEKS, IASI, Italy
Michael zur Muehlen	Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Ng Wee Keong	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Andreas L. Opdahl	University of Bergen, Norway
Herve Panetto	University Henri Poincare Nancy I, France
Jeffrey Parsons	University of Newfoundland, Canada
Barbara Pernici	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michael Petit	University of Namur, Belgium
Erik Proper	Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sandeep Purao	Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sudha Ram	University of Arizona, USA
Balasubramaniam Ramesh	Georgia State University, USA
Antoni Oliv頒amon	Universitat Polit飮ica de Catalunya, Spain
Colette Rolland	University of Paris 1, France
Michael Rosemann	Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Matti Rossi	Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Kurt Sandkuhl	Jping University, Sweden
Peretz Shoval	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Keng Siau	University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Guttorm Sindre	University of Trondheim, Norway
Il Yeol Song	Drexel University, USA
Arne S梥rg	NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Veda Storey	Georgia State University, USA
Yong Tan	University of Washington, USA
Heikki Topi	Bentley College, USA
Dan Turk	Colorado State University, USA
Pasi Tyrv䩮en	University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Ramesh Venkataraman	Indiana University, USA
Christian Wagner	City University of Hong Kong, China
Gerd Wagner	Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Te Wei Wang	Florida International University, USA
Roel Wieringa	University of Twente, Netherlands
Carson Woo	University of British Columbia, USA
Benjamin Yen	The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Martin Zelm	CIMOSA, Germany
Daniel Zeng	University of Arizona, USA
Huimin Zhao	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
J. Leon Zhao	University of Arizona, USA
Baihua Zheng	Singapore Management University, Singapore
Lina Zhou	University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

For more information on the workshop, please contact:

Prof. Terry Halpin

e-mail: terry.halpin@northface.edu

fax: + 1 801 733 2811

tel: +1 801 733 2820

For general information about the CAiSE堣onference, see http://gnomo.fe.up.pt/~caise/index.php.