[AISWorld] BMSD 2018 - Business Modeling and Software Design || April 9 || Vienna, Austria || Springer Proceedings

[Boris Shishkov]

Call for Papers

BMSD 2018 - Eighth International Symposium on Business Modeling and 
Software Design

2-4 July 2018
Vienna, Austria

http://www.is-bmsd.org

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

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria
(Title: Blockchains for Business Process Management - Challenges and 
Opportunities)
Prof. Dr. Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
(Title: The Convergence of Business, Software Development and IT Operations 
and the Next Wave)

BMSD - the International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software 
Design, 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 2018 is:

ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR 
THE FUTURE.

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 an enterprise 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 2018, BMSD will be held in Vienna, Austria, following previous events in 
Spain (Barcelona, 2017), 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
Paper submission deadline: 9 April 2018 (extended deadline) 
Notification of acceptance: 23 April 2018
Final paper submission: 7 May 2018

Types of contributions
Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished
Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about an issue
Invited Papers - submitted by best papers' authors and former / future BMSD 
Keynote Speakers

Paper formats
Full Papers - 18-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral 
presentation)
Short Papers - 10-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral 
presentation)
Posters - 4 page limit, published separately (poster presentation)

How to submit a paper (7 steps)
1. View the technical scope
2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 4 and no more than 12 pages 
(Springer LNCS format)
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 by the 9th of April 
(extended deadline) , putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2018, Regular / 
Position Paper"

Publication
The BMSD'18 Proceedings will be published by Springer and indexed by:
- SCOPUS
- DBLP.

Program Committee
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Dimitar Birov, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK
Samuel Chong, Capgemini, UK
Dimitar Christozov, American University in Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, 
Bulgaria
Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal
Claudio di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria
Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
John Edwards, Aston University, UK
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Vienna, Austria / University of Bamberg, 
Germany
Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management SudParis, France
Rafael Gonzales, Javeriana University, Colombia
Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gabriel Juhas, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic
Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland
Stefan Koch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Michal Krcal, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia / University of 
Economics, Poland
Jelena Marincic, ASML, The Netherlands
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Heinrich Mayr, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria
Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, 
Italy
Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy
Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Prantosh K. Paul, Raiganj University, India
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Gregor Polancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Grand 
Duchy of Luxembourg
Ricardo Queiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria
Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China
Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands
Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Andreas Sinnhofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Hans-Peter Steinbacher, FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, 
Austria
Coen Suurmond, RBK Group, The Netherlands
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Ramayah Thurasamy, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan
Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China
Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA
(list not yet complete)

Contact
Boris Shishkov (b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org)