[AISWorld] CfP- CoBI Workshop

[Christina Stratigaki]

*CoBI – IEEE International Workshop on Capability-oriented Business
Informatics*

(Workshop site: http://cobi2015.blogs.dsv.su.se)

*in association with the 17th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics *
(IEEE CBI 2015 – http://cbi2015.inesc.pt/)


*Workshop Call*

The business environments of today are changing rapidly, entailing complex
and dynamic organisational constellations. Enterprises operating in these
conditions need to have the capability to deliver their services in a
variety of business contexts with sustainable quality and moreover to
leverage them to competitive advantage.

Capability is gaining presence in the context of business-IT alignment, in
the specification and design of services using business planning as the
baseline, in Enterprise Architecture, and in Service Oriented Architecture.
However, the knowledge, role and the usage of enterprise capabilities in
the named disciplines in terms of people competencies and the capacity of
the resources, are unclear and open to different interpretations. How to
utilize “capability” knowledge in enterprise modelling and architectures as
a foundation for sustainable Information System planning and management in
the presence of varying social and business contexts is likely to yield
substantial results in both research and practice in years to come.

We encourage the original research contributions exploring the challenges
and solutions related to the meaning and usage of capability in Business
Informatics, as well as industrial case studies illustrating the use of
this notion. The topics are among but not limited to:



   - The role of capability-based modeling for improving Enterprise Modeling
   - Capability driven-based methods for Business Process Engineering
   - Capabilities for service innovation
   - Capability-driven service composition
   - Capability-driven cloud management
   - Technology support for capability-based tools in Business IT
   - The effects of capability on organizational transformation
   - Management issues related to capability
   - Transferring capability knowledge from other domains to IS engineering
   - Case studies in capability use


*Organization*

CoBI 2015 is the one-day workshop organized in conjunction with the 17th
IEEE Conference on Business Informatics  in Lisbon, Portugal.




*Organization Chairs*

Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)

Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Jelena Zdravkovic (Stockholm University, Sweden)


*Paper Submissions*

All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere.
Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format (
http://www.springer.com/series/7911). The page limit is 12 pages. Papers
have to be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2015).

Accepted papers will be published in the CoBI Workshop Proceedings, CEUR
Workshop Proceedings Series. At least one author of an accepted paper
should register for the conference and present the paper.

Authors of the best 3 papers will be invited to submit an extended version
for consideration by the Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ).


*Key Dates:*

Submission deadline: *30th May 2015*

Notification to authors: *15th June 2015*

CRC copy submission: *20th June 2015*

The Workshop:
*14th July 2015*

*PC Committee*

  Yamine Ait Ameur, France

Raian Ali, UK

Carlos Cetina, Spain

Eng Chew, Australia

Sergio Espana, Spain

Wided Guedria, Luxemburgo

Giovanni Giachetti, Chile

Janis Grabis, Latvia

Tharaka Ilayperuma, Sri Lanka

Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria

Ron Kennet, Italia

Christian Kop, Austria

Dmitry Kudryavtsev, Russia

Kale Lyytinen, USA

Raimundas Matulevicius, Estonia

Beatriz Marin, Chile

Ana Moreira, Portugal

Manuel Noguera, Spain

Gustaf-Juel Skielse, Sweden

Erik Perjons, Sweden

Hendrik Proper, Luxembourg

Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany

Janis Stirna, Sweden

Francisco Valverde, Spain

Liping Zhao, UK