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<DIV>CALL FOR PAPERS<BR><BR>The 7th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium'2014<BR><BR>on
Systems Analysis and Design<BR><BR>Information Systems:<BR>Development,
Applications, Education <BR><BR>September 25, 2014 <BR><BR>Gdańsk, Sopot -
Poland<BR><BR>eurosymposium.eu<BR><BR><BR><BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR>BACKGROUND<BR><BR>Systems
analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and
education in the area of management information systems (MIS) or, as it is
called more frequently in Europe, Business Informatics, almost from its
origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and
business. The rapid progress of information and communications technology
naturally generates the requirements for new generations of SAND methods,
techniques and tools. Therefore, international thematic conferences and
symposia have become widely accepted forums for exchanging of concepts,
solutions and experiences in SAND. In particular, the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) is undertaking the initiative towards SAND’s
international development.<BR><BR>Therefore, there are three organizers of the
7th EuroSymposium on Systems Analysis and Design are as follows:
<BR><BR>SIGSAND is the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special
Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design. SIGSAND provides services such
as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS
conferences, listserv and special issues in journals. The EuroSymposia were
initiated by AIS Vice President Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND-Europe
Initiative.<BR><BR>The Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems
(PLAIS) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia
Loebbecke, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of
Gdańsk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on
systems analysis and design as well as on Business Informatics and Software
Engineering, e.g., BIR 2008 – International Conference on Business Informatics
Research and CAiSE’12 – International Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering.<BR><BR>The Department of Business Informatics of the
University of Gdansk is conducting intensive teaching and research activities.
Some of its academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland. The Department is also
active internationally, organizing conferencs including the 10th European
Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), The 7th International
Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), The
8th International Conference on European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN
2009) and 24th Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE
2012). The Department is the partner of the European Research Center for
Information Systems
consortium.<BR><BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR>ADVISORY
BOARD<BR><BR>Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands<BR>Joerg Becker, University of Muenster, Germany<BR>Juhani Iivari,
University of Oulu, Finland<BR>Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna,
Austria<BR>Julie Kendall, Rutgers University, USA<BR>Claudia Loebbecke,
University of Cologne, Germany<BR>Keng Siau, Missouri University of Science
and Technology,
USA<BR><BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR>RELEVANT
TOPICS<BR><BR><BR>- Agile Methods<BR>- Business Process Modeling<BR>-
Conceptual Modeling<BR>- Curriculum Design and Implementation Issues<BR>-
Design of Mobile Applications<BR>- Design Theory<BR>- Empirical Studies in
Systems Analysis and Design <BR>- Ethical, Human and Organizational aspects of
IS Development<BR>- Human-Computer Interaction and Prototyping<BR>-
Information Systems Development Methods and Techniques<BR>- IT design for
disaster recovery<BR>- Model-Driven Architecture<BR>- Modeling Methods,
Techniques and Languages<BR>- Ontological Foundations of Systems Analysis and
Design<BR>- Open Source Software (OSS) Solutions<BR>- Organizations and open
source development<BR>- Rapid Systems Development<BR>- Requirements
Engineering<BR>- SAND in ERP Systems<BR>- SOA and Cloud Computing<BR>- Systems
analysis and design in nonprofit organizations<BR>- Teaching Systems Analysis
and Design<BR>- UML/SysML/BPMN<BR>- User Participation in SAND<BR>- Web
design<BR>- Workflow
Management<BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR>KEYNOTE
SPEECHES<BR><BR>During EuroSymposium’2014 the following keynote speeches will
be given:<BR><BR><BR>a.. Ricardo Ferreira, (European Union, DG EDUCATION AND
CULTURE, Unit A3 - Skills and Qualification)<BR>Opening up Education for
innovative teaching and learning in Europe<BR><BR><BR>b.. Claudia Loebbecke,
Director of Department of Media and Technology Management, University of
Cologne, Germany<BR>Big Data Analytics Impacting Teaching and
Research<BR>============================================================================================<BR>PUBLICATION<BR><BR>All
submissions will be reviewed by the EuroSymposium International Programme
Committee for contribution to the relevant topic. The Accepted papers are
published as EuroSymposium 2013 Proceedings in the Springer series of Lecture
Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP).<BR><BR>The series is
indexed/abstracted by ISI Proceedings, Web of Knowledge, DBLP, EI and Scopus,
i.e., the most important CS/IS indexing services.
<BR><BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT
DATES<BR><BR>Submission of Manuscripts: May 18,2014<BR>Notification of
Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2014<BR>Final Paper Submission: July 14,
2014<BR>EuroSymposium: September 25,
201<BR><BR>============================================================================================<BR><BR>CONTACTS<BR><BR>Department
of Business Informatics, Faculty of Management,University of Gdansk<BR>81-864
Sopot, Piaskowa 9, Poland<BR>phone: +48 58 5231400<BR>fax: +48 58
5231155<BR>skype: swrycza<BR>e-mail: info@eurosymposium.eu<BR>website:
http://eurosymposium.eu/<BR><BR><BR>===========================================================================================<BR><BR>Stanislaw
Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland<BR><BR>General
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