[AISWorld] BMSD 2016 - Call for Papers

[Boris Shishkov]

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 BMSD 2016 Call for papers
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 The 6th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 
(BMSD 2016) will be organized on 20-22 June 2016, in Rhodes (Greece).  

 Details can be found at: http://www.is-bmsd.org  

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 IMPORTANT DATES  

 Paper submission deadline: 7 March 2016; Notification of acceptance: 19 
April 2016; Final paper submission and registration: 2 May 2016.  

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 GENERAL INFORMATION  

 BMSD is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination 
forum that brings together Researchers and Practitioners interested in:
 (i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal 
Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, 
Model-Driven Engineering;
 (ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation;
 (iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design.
 Since 2011, we have enjoyed five successful BMSD editions, namely: 
Sofia'11, Geneva'12, Noordwijkerhout'13, Luxembourg'14, and Milan'15. In 
2016, BMSD will go to
 Rhodes, Greece, organized by IICREST and co-organized by Aristotle 
University of Thessaloniki.  

 Chair:
 Dr. Boris Shishkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences / IICREST, Bulgaria  

 Keynote Lecturers:
 Prof. Dr. Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
 Prof. Dr. Jan Juerjens, TU Dortmund, Germany
 Dr. Mathias Kirchmer , BPM-D, USA  

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 Topics for submissions include (but are not limited to):  

 BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS
  Business Analysis - Value Models and Process Models
  Essential Business Models
  Re-Usable Business Models
  Relating Business Goals to Requirements
  Business Process Coordination
  Business Entities and Business Roles
  Business Data and Semantics
  Business Processes and Business Rules
  Behavior Modeling and Pragmatics
  Identification and Elicitation of Requirements
  Domain-Imposed and User-Defined Requirements
  Requirements Analysis  

 BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES
  Business Modeling and Service Science
  Relating Business Goals to the Identification of Services
  Service Modeling - Technology-Independent & Platform-Specific
  Business Rules and Service Composition
  Autonomic Service Behavior
  Context-Aware Service Behavior
  Re-Usable Service Models  

 BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE
  Business Modeling -Driven Derivation of Software
  Business Innovation and Software Evolution
  Business-IT Alignment and Traceability
  Re-Usable Business Models and Software Components
  Business Rules and Software Specification
  Business Goals and Software Integration
  Autonomic and Context-Aware Business/Software Systems
  Affective Computing and User-Aware Software Systems  

 INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES
  Enterprise Architectures
  Service-Oriented Architectures
  Architectural Styles
  Architectural Viewpoints
  Crosscutting Concerns.  

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 AUTHOR GUIDELINES  

 Types of contributions:
 Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost 
finished;
 Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about and issue;
 Invited Papers - submitted by best paper authors and BMSD former/future 
Keynotes.  

 Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be 
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must 
conform to the SCITEPRESS format and should not exceed 8 pages.  

 More information can be found at: 
http://www.is-bmsd.org/SubissionGuidelines.htm  

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 PUBLICATION  

 Accepted papers will be presented at BMSD 2016 and included in the 
symposium proceedings, published by SCITEPRESS.
 Revised and extended versions of the best BMSD'16 papers will be published 
in 2017 by Springer-Verlag, in an LNBIP Series book.