<div dir="ltr"><p><span lang="EN-US">Dear
colleagues,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">we would
like to draw your attention to a call for papers for the Business &
Information Systems (BISE) special issue on " Advanced Enterprise Modeling",
which can be found below. BISE (the
International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK) has been a leading journal in
information systems for 55 years (impact factor 2012: 1.2).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">We
cordially invite original research contributions for this special issue until
March 1, 2014.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">===========================</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Advanced
Enterprise Modeling</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">===========================</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Special
Issue</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">---------------</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The pace of
change in business constantly accelerates, whereas the context for this change
is becoming more complex. Today’s business environments entail cooperation with
different organizations, rapidly changing business activities and processes,
and an intensive competitive landscape. Enterprises need therefore the
capability to respond quickly and efficiently to these challenges, and even to
leverage them to competitive advantage. In this effort, they steadily transform
to become dynamic, proactive, connected, adaptive, or globally-integrated
organizations. Service orientation and cloud computing are the two
enterprise-scale technologies showing high potential and promise in tackling
continuous IT challenges.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The EM
research discipline aims to solve business-IT alignment in a holistic manner by
providing the techniques, languages, tools and best practices for using models
to represent organizational knowledge and information systems from different
perspectives. Described complex business and technology conditions upraise the
role of Enterprise Modeling (EM) in its responsibility in reaching the
alignment. The quality attributes such as agility, sensitivity, responsiveness,
adaptability, autonomy and interoperability are emerging as the norms for
advanced enterprise models. Solving them will allow all components of an
enterprise to operate together in the cooperative manner for the purpose of
maximizing overall benefit to the enterprise.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The special
issue aims to explore the enabling factors in EM to support the business-IT
alignment in modern enterprises. It serves as a forum for researchers and
practitioners to disseminate high-quality original research as well as
case-studies of real-world enterprises in a leading international journal.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to business applications in the
areas:</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* Agile EM</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* Use of EM
in different organisational and technical contexts</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Adaptability in EM</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Concordance between EM and information systems development</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* EM
langauges, references models and tools</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Evaluation of EM approaches, success factors in EM</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* EM case
studies, practice feedback to EM research</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* EM
managment and governance</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* Reuse of
enterprise models and modeling languages</span></p>
<br>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Submission
Guidelines</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">--------------------<br>Authors are
asked to submit their papers online under the category “BISE-Advanced
Enterprise Modeling” by 2014-03-01 via the journal’s submission system
Editorial Manager (<a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/" target="_blank">http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/</a>).
All papers must follow the typing and formatting instructions for
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK/BUSSINESS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (BISE)
available at <a href="http://www.bise-journal.org" target="_blank">http://www.bise-journal.org</a>.
In particular, manuscripts should not exceed 50,000 characters (discounting
5,000 characters for each figure/table).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Submitted
papers will undergo a double-blind review process and be refereed by at least
three domain experts according to quality, originality, relevance and
scientific rigor.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>
</p><p><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Schedule</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">---------------</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* Paper
submission due: 2014-03-01</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Notification of authors: 2014-04-26</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">* Revisions
due: 2014-06-28</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Completion of a second revision (if needed): 2014-09-20</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">*
Anticipated publication date: January 2015</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Special
Issue Editors</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">---------------</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Jelena
Zdravkovic and Janis Stirna</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Stockholm
University</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">16440
Kista, Sweden</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:jelenaz@dsv.su.se" target="_blank">jelenaz@dsv.su.se</a>. <a href="mailto:js@dsv.su.se" target="_blank">js@dsv.su.se</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Marite
Kirikova</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Riga
Technical University</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Riga,
Latvia</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:marite.kirikova@cs.rtu.lv" target="_blank">marite.kirikova@cs.rtu.lv</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Dimitris
Karagiannis</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">University
of Vienna</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Vienna,
Austria</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:dk@dke.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">dk@dke.univie.ac.at</a></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Robert
Winter</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">University
of St. Gallen</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">St.
Gallen, Switzerland</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:robert.winter@unisg.ch" target="_blank">robert.winter@unisg.ch</a></span></p></div>