[AISWorld] EMMSAD'2017 - New Short Papers Categories

Sun Mar 19 10:15:02 EDT 2017

Dear colleagues,

We open this year two new categories of short papers (up to 8 pages) in
EMMSAD – the two-day working conference on evaluation and modeling methods
for systems analysis and development, organized in conjunction with CAISE:

- EMMSAD-Next – reporting on research-in-progress, preliminary findings, or
initiatives

- EMMSAD-Practice – reporting on lessons learned from practice or
collaborations with industry

We welcome researchers and practitioners to share their work with EMMSAD
participants and followers in the topics related to the EMMSAD conference
(see below).

The accepted short papers will be presented during EMMSAD'2017 on 12-13
June 2017, in Essen, Germany. They will be published in the CAiSE Radar
proceedings (CEUR). CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) are indexed by
DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus, CiteSeer, CiteSeerX, and more.

Important Dates:

- Short paper abstracts (recommended): March 31st, 2017

- Submission deadline: April 10th, 2017

- Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2017

- Camera-ready papers due: May 10th, 2017

The short papers should follow Springer LNBIP format and be submitted
through the conference management system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emmsad17.

Looking forward for your submissions,

Iris, Sergio, Wided, and Palash

International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems
Analysis and development – Call for short papers in categories EMMSAD-Next
and EMMSAD-Practice

The 22nd edition of the EMMSAD series, held in conjunction with CAiSE’17

12-13 June 2017, Essen, Germany

Submission deadline: April 10th, 2017

http://www.ommsad.org/

*Background and Aims:*

The field of information and software systems development has resulted in a
rich heritage of modelling methods and notations (e.g. ER, ORM, UML,
ArchiMate, EPC, BPMN, DEMO). This canon of methods and notations continuous
to be enriched with extensions, refinements, and even new languages, to
deal with new challenges. Even with some attempts to standardise (e.g. UML
for object-oriented software design, ArchiMate for enterprise architecture
modelling, and BPMN for business process modelling), new modelling methods
are constantly being introduced, especially in order to deal with emerging
trends such as compliance and regulations, cloud computing, big data,
business analytics, the internet of things, etc. These ongoing changes
significantly impact the way information and software systems, enterprises,
and business processes are being analysed and designed in practice.

Evaluation of modelling methods contributes to the knowledge and
understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge may guide
researchers towards the development of the next generation of modelling
methods and help practitioners select the modelling methods most
appropriate to their needs. A variety of empirical and non-empirical
evaluation approaches can be found in the literature: feature comparison,
meta-modelling, metrics, paradigmatic analyses, contingency identification,
ontological evaluation, surveys, laboratory and field experiments, case
studies, and action research. Yet, there is a paucity of such research in
the literature.

Moreover, the rapid pace of change, innovation, and adoption makes us deal
with digitalizing the world, competing with big data and advanced
analytics, joining the social matrix, deploying the Internet
of (all) Things, offering anything as a service, and automating knowledge
work. These introduce challenges to modeling as well: scalability, privacy,
security, and performance – to list a few, and may call for extending
existing modelling methods or developing new ones.

The EMMSAD conference focuses on evaluating, as well as exploring and
enhancing, modelling methods and techniques for the development of
information and software systems, enterprises, and business processes. The
objective of the EMMSAD conference series is to provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners interested in evaluation and modelling
methods for systems development 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.

*Topics:*

We solicit papers on topics included (but are not limited to) the following
issues:

·       Empirical studies of conceptual modelling

·       Evaluation and comparison of modelling languages, techniques and
tools

·       Experiences in modelling

·       Quality and metrics of models

·       Evolution of modelling languages and related standards

·       Modelling languages and meta-modelling

-        Enterprise modelling

-        Requirements modelling

-        Analysis and design modelling

-        Development and deployment modelling

·       The process of modelling or modelling languages and tools

·       Integration of models

·       Methodologies and tools for modelling

·       Modelling and modelling languages in the context of evolving, and
new trends

-        Regulation & compliance

-        Business analytics

-        Big data

-        Distributed and cloud environments

-        Internet-of-Things

*Important Dates:*

- Short paper abstracts (recommended): March 31st, 2017

- Submission deadline: April 10th, 2017

- Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2017

- Camera-ready papers due: May 10th, 2017

*Submission & Publication:*

We open this year two new categories of short papers (up to 8 pages) in
EMMSAD:

- EMMSAD-Next – reporting on research-in-progress, preliminary findings, or
initiatives

- EMMSAD-Practice – reporting on lessons learned from practice or
collaborations with industry

The short papers should follow Springer LNBIP format and be submitted
through the conference management system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emmsad17. Maximal length – 8 pages.
Following EMMSAD double blind review process, please make sure to hide
author names and self-citations.

The accepted short papers will be published in the CAiSE Radar proceedings
(CEUR). CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/) are indexed by DBLP, Google
Scholar, Scopus, CiteSeer, CiteSeerX, and more.

*Organization*:

Co-chairs:

Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel

Sérgio Guerreiro, Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa,
Portugal

Wided Guédria, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology - LIST,
Luxembourg

Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA

Advisory committee:

John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology - LIST,
Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

*Sponsors:*

·       Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). As
of 2007, EMMSAD is officially linked on an ongoing basis to the CAiSE
conference series.

·       International Federation for Information Processing Working Group
8.1 (IFIP WG 8.1). Sponsor since 1997.

·       Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on
Systems Analysis and Design (AIS-SIGSAND). Sponsor since 2005

·       Enterprise Architecture Network. Sponsor since 2009.

·       The ORM Foundation. Sponsor since 2009.

·       The Enterprise Engineering Team. Sponsor since 2010.