[AISWorld] Call for Papers: BMSD 2017 (Deadline - March 13)

Tue Mar 7 16:00:26 EST 2017

*Call for Papers*

*BMSD 2017 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS MODELING AND
SOFTWARE DESIGN*

*3-5 July 2017*
*Barcelona, Spain*

http://www.is-bmsd.org

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

*Keynote Lecturers:*
*Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany* (Title: A
Visionary Way to Novel Process Optimization Techniques)
*Prof. Dr. Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain* (Title:
Available soon)
*Prof. Dr. Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands* (Title: Real-Time Inter-Enterprise Coordination in a Highly
Dynamic World)

The symposium is organized and sponsored by the international institute
*IICREST* and technically co-sponsored by *BPM-D*. Cooperating
organizations are: *AUTH* - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, *TU Delft*
- Delft University of Technology, *CTIT* - the U-Twente Centre for
Telematics and Information Technology, *IMI* - the BAS Institute of
Mathematics and Informatics, *SIKS* - the Nederlands Research School for
Information and Knowledge Systems, and *AMAKOTA Ltd*.

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.
Each year, a special theme is chosen, for making presentations and
discussions more focused. The theme of BMSD 2017 is:

*MODELING VIEWPOINTS AND OVERALL CONSISTENCY*.

Adequate business models are of huge importance not only for understanding
and (re-)engineering an organization but also for automating (part of) its
processes by means of software systems. Not grasping correctly and
exhaustively a business system would inevitably lead to consequent software
failures. It is therefore claimed that software generation should
essentially have its roots in corresponding enterprise engineering models.

In 2017, BMSD will be held in Barcelona, Spain, following previous events
in Greece (Rhodes, 2016), Italy (Milan, 2015), the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2014), The Netherlands (Noordwijkerhout, 2013),
Switzerland (Geneva, 2012), and Bulgaria (Sofia, 2011).

We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas
and topics:

*1. BUSINESS PROCESSES AND ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING*
enterprise systems
enterprise system environments and context
construction and function
actor roles
signs and affordances
transactions
business processes
business process coordination
business process optimization
business process management and strategy execution
production acts and coordination acts
regulations and business rules
enterprise (re-) engineering
enterprise interoperability
inter-enterprise coordination
enterprise engineering and architectural governance
enterprise engineering and software generation
enterprise innovation

*2. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS*
essential business models
re-usable business models
business value models
business process models
business goal models
integrating data analytics in business modeling
semantics and business data modeling
pragmatics and business behavior modeling
business modeling viewpoints and overall consistency
business modeling landscapes
requirements elicitation
domain-imposed and user-defined requirements
requirements specification and modeling
requirements analysis and verification
requirements evolution
requirements traceability
usability and requirements elicitation

*3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES*
enterprise engineering and service science
service-oriented enterprises
from business modeling to service-oriented solutions
business modeling for software-based services
service engineering
business-goals-driven service discovery and modeling
technology-independent and platform-specific service modeling
re-usable service models
business-rules-driven service composition
web services
autonomic service behavior
context-aware service behavior
service interoperability
change impact analysis and service management
service monitoring and quality of service
services for IoT applications
service innovation

*4. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE*
enterprise engineering and software development
model-driven engineering
co-design of business and IT systems
business-IT alignment and traceability
alignment between IT architecture and business strategy
business strategy and technical debt
business-modeling-driven software generation
normalized systems and combinatorial effects
software generation and dependency analysis
component-based business-software alignment
objects, components, and modeling patterns
generic business modeling patterns and software re-use
business rules and software specification
business goals and software integration
business innovation and software evolution
software technology maturity models
domain-specific models
croscutting concerns - security, privacy, distribution, recoverability,
logging, performance monitoring

*5. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES AND PARADIGMS*
enterprise architectures
service-oriented computing
software architectures
cloud computing
autonomic computing (and intelligent software behavior)
context-aware computing (and adaptable software systems)
affective computing (and user-aware software systems)
aspect-oriented computing (and non-functional requirements)
architectural styles
architectural viewpoints

*6. DATA ASPECTS IN BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT*
data analytics and quality of data
data-flow analysis
data semantics
knowledge identification
data modeling in business processes
data management
knowledge management
ontologies
statistical analysis and context states
data distributions and occurrence probabilities

*Key dates*
Regular Paper submission deadline: *13 March 2017*
Position Paper submission deadline: *27 March 2017*
Notification of acceptance: *24 April 2017*
Final paper submission: *8 May 2017.*

*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.

*Paper formats*
*Full Papers* - 10-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral
presentation)
*Short Papers* - 6-page limit in the symposium proceedings (oral
presentation)
*Posters* - 4 page limit in the symposium proceedings (poster presentation).

*How to submit a paper (7 steps)*
1. View the technical scope
2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 3 and no more than 8 pages
3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper
or as a Position Paper
4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org
)
5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your
affiliations) from the title and references sections
6. Save the file as PDF
7. e-Mail the file to *secretariat [at] iicrest.org <http://iicrest.org>*
by March 13, putting in the Subject *BMSD'17 Regular Paper* or *BMSD'17
Position Paper*

*Publication*
Accepted papers will be presented at BMSD 2017 and included in the
symposium proceedings, published by *SciTePress*. All presented papers will
also be included in the SciTePress Digital Library (
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary) and SCOPUS-indexed; further, the
proceedings will be submitted for a DBLP-indexation. Finally, the authors
of selected best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended
versions of their papers in a *Springer LNBIP Revised Selected Papers* book.

*Proceedings of the previous editions*
2016: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfSixthBMSD.pdf
2015: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFifthBMSD.pdf
2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFourthBMSD.pdf
2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfThirdBMSD.pdf
2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfSecondBMSD.pdf
2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/ProceedingsOfFirstBMSD.pdf

*Some photos:*
2016: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerysixthBMSD.htm
<http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerySixthBMSD.htm>
2015: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFifthBMSD.htm
2014: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFourthBMSD.htm
2013: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryThirdBMSD.htm
2012: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GallerySecondBMSD.htm
2011: http://www.is-bmsd.org/GalleryFirstBMSD.htm

*Venue*
The BMSD'17 sessions will be held at Hesperia Sant Just NH Hotel. Hesperia
Sant Just is an excellent conference facility in Barcelona, part of the
Spanish NH Hotel Group. Barcelona is among the most popular cities in the
World and also one of the top conference destinations, and this is because
of Barcelona’s 2000+ years of history, its Medieval past, its artistic
spirit, its impressive modernistic architecture (in some districts), its
Gaudi and Miro heritage, the Mediterranean influence and cosmopolitanism,
its scientific Community and ICT advances as well as successes in culture
and sports.

*For more information*
w: http://www.is-bmsd.org
t: +359 888 534435
e: secretariat at iicrest.org