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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Dear Collegues,</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial><BR>We cordially invite you to submit your paper to the 6th IFIP
WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2013)
which is going to take place on November 6-7, 2013 in Riga, Latvia.</FONT><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>The paper submission
deadline is June 30, 2013.</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial><BR>The detailed information is available at the conference website
</FONT><A href="http://poem2013.rtu.lv" target=_blank><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://poem2013.rtu.lv</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
.</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>Don't
hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.</FONT><FONT size=2
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PoEM 2013 PC co-chairs</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Marite Kirikova (<A href=""
target=_blank>marite.kirikova@cs.rtu.lv</A>) <BR>Jelena Zdravkovic (<A href=""
target=_blank>jelenaz@dsv.su.se</A>)</FONT></DIV></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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----- CALL FOR PAPERS
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IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on <BR>The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM)
<BR>November 6-7, 2013 <BR>RIGA, LATVIA<BR><A
href="http://poem2013.rtu.lv">http://poem2013.rtu.lv</A><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>PoEM
2013 is the 6th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice<BR>of Enterprise
Modeling. It aims at improving the understanding of <BR>the practice of
Enterprise Modelling (EM) by offering a forum for <BR>sharing experiences and
knowledge between the academic community and<BR>practitioners from industry and
the public sector. The conference<BR>proceedings are published by Springer
Lecture Notes in Business <BR>Information
Processing.<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>TYPES
OF PAPERS<BR>Research papers describe original research contributions to the
area<BR>of EM.<BR>Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered
in <BR>practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on <BR>industrial
cases and practices.<BR>Practitioner papers may address any aspect of EM or
enterprise <BR>architectures relevant from a practitioners point of view. These
<BR>papers have a specific review procedure.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Short papers can be used to present work in
progress and emerging EM <BR>challenges. That includes presentation of ongoing
thesis or <BR>research work by PhD or Master
students.<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>TOPICS<BR>Topics
relevant for submission, but are not limited to, are:<BR>* Enterprise modelling
theory<BR>* Enterprise modelling practice and case studies<BR>* Enterprise
modelling tools<BR>* Agile enterprise modelling<BR>* Enterprise modelling for
information systems development<BR>* Knowledge management and enterprise
modelling<BR>* Quality, validation, and quantitative analysis of enterprise
models<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>IMPORTANT
DATES<BR>Paper submission deadline - June 30<BR>Notification of acceptance -
August 16<BR>camera-ready version due - August 23<BR>PoEM conference - November
6-7<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION<BR>Accepted experience papers and research papers
will be published in <BR>Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP, <BR>indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP, EI and Scopus). Short
papers and <BR>practitioner papers will be published in the CEUR workshop
<BR>proceedings series.<BR>Papers have to be submitted in PDF or DOC format
using the EasyChair<BR>submission page. All submissions must be unpublished and
not be<BR>under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP
<BR>format. Page limit for experience and research papers is 15 pages, <BR>short
papers and practitioner papers should not exceed 10 pages.<BR>At least one
author of the accepted paper should register for the <BR>conference and present
the paper.<BR>EasyChair submission page:<BR><A
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2013</A><BR>Springer
formatting guidelines:<BR><A
href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911">http://www.springer.com/series/7911</A><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>ORGANIZERS<BR>The
conference is organized by Faculty of Computer Science and <BR>Information
Technology, Riga Technical University in cooperation <BR>with Latvian IT Cluster
and IIBA Latvia Chapter. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Organization committee<BR>Janis Grabis – General
chair<BR>Marite Kirikova and Jelena Zdravkovic – PC co-chairs<BR>Renate
Strazdina - Industrial cooperation chair<BR>Gundega Lazdane (IIBA Latvian
Chapter)<BR>Lilita Sparane (Latvian IT Cluster)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE (to be extended)<BR>Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa,
Canada<BR>Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<BR>Guiseppe Berio,
University of South Brittany, France<BR>Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of
Technology, Lithuania<BR>Steinar Carlsen, Computas AS, Norway<BR>Wolfgang
Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany<BR>Sergio Espana, Universitat Politecnica de
Valencia, Spain<BR>Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Spain<BR>Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany<BR>Remigijus Gustas,
Karlstad University, Sweden<BR>Patrick Heymans, University of Namur,
Belgium<BR>Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences,
Netherlands<BR>Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Italy<BR>Paul
Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden<BR>Havard Jorgensen, Commitment AS,
Norway<BR>Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria<BR>Niel Maiden,
City University London, United Kingdom<BR>John Krogstie, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway<BR>Marc Lankhorst, Novay, The
Netherlands<BR>Ulrike Lechner, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany<BR>Michel
Leonard, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland<BR>Peri Loucopoulos, University of
Loughborough, UK<BR>Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu,
Estonia<BR>Florian Matthes, Munich University of Technology, Germany<BR>Graham
McLeod, PROMIS Solutions AG, South Africa<BR>Jan Mendling, Vienna University of
Economics, Austria<BR>Christer Nellborn, Nellborn Management Consulting AB,
Sweden<BR>Bjorn Nilsson, Anates AB, Luxembourg<BR>Andreas Opdahl, University of
Bergen, Norway<BR>Sietse Overbeek, University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany<BR>Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain<BR>Anne
Persson, University of Skovde, Sweden<BR>Michael Petit, University of Namur,
Belgium<BR>Naveen Prakash, GCET, India<BR>Erik Proper, Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands<BR>Jolita Ralyte, Universite de Geneve,
Switzerland<BR>Peter Rittgen, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School,
Belgium<BR>Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne,
France<BR>Irina Rychkova, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France<BR>Kurt
Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany<BR>Ulf Seigerroth, Jonkoping
International Business School, Sweden<BR>Khurram Shahzad, University of the
Punjab, Pakistan<BR>Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS, Russia<BR>Pnina Soffer, University
of Haifa, Israel<BR>Maarten Steen, Novay, the Netherlands<BR>Janis Stirna,
University of Stockholm, Sweden<BR>Renate Strazdina, Ernst&Young SIA,
Latvia<BR>Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<BR>Olegas
Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania<BR>Mathias Weske,
University of Potsdam, Germany<BR>Eric Yu, University of Toronto,
Canada<BR>Janis Barzdins, University of Latvia,
Latvia<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>CONTACTS<BR>Janis
Grabis <BR>Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology<BR>Riga
Technical University,<BR>Kalku 1, Riga, LV-1658, Latvian<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:grabis@rtu.lv">grabis@rtu.lv</A>, phone: +371-67089594<BR><A
href="http://poem2013.rtu.lv">http://poem2013.rtu.lv</A><BR><A
href="http://www.rtu.lv">http://www.rtu.lv</A> <BR><A
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