Deadline Extension - The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'14)

The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
New paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
Note count-down clock! 

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/important_dates.php  

Call for Papers

Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/

Real-time information systems and overly complex financial products have been blamed as causes of recent financial crises. The IS Engineering community is treating such phenomena as challenges, to be addressed through research and improved practices. In particular, our community has begun to address the role of information systems in predicting, preventing, and reacting to crises of many different kinds: data-centric financial and fiscal dependency analysis of the globalized financial systems, resilience of critical infrastructures by information management, reaction to natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Due to the very nature of crises as unexpected events with broad and vast impact, IS Engineering challenges traditional wisdom and methodologies, as well as interactions between research and practice including stakeholders such as crisis victims.
CAiSE '14 will, as always, act as a forum of discussion that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of IS Engineering. It will be the place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience reports in our discipline.
CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information systems engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to papers that address the role of IS engineering in crisis situations. Four kinds of contributions are accepted: technical papers, empirical evaluation papers, reports of experience, and exploratory papers. The CAiSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Methods, techniques and tools for IS engineering
•    Innovation and creativity in IS engineering
•    Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
•    Requirements engineering
•    Business process modeling, analysis and management
•    Requirements, models, and software reuse
•    Adaptation, evolution and flexibility issues
•    Domain engineering
•    IS in networked & virtual organizations
•    Method engineering
•    Knowledge, information, and data quality
•    Languages and models
•    Mining, monitoring and predicting
•    Variability and configuration
•    Matching, compliance and alignment issues
•    Conceptual design and modelling
•    Security
•    Service science

Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS
•    Service-oriented architecture
•    Model-driven architecture
•    Component based development
•    Agent architecture
•    Distributed, mobile, and open architecture
•    Innovative database technology
•    Semantic web
•    IS and ubiquitous technologies
•    Adaptive and context-aware IS

Domain specific IS engineering:
•    Crisis Management
•    eGovernment
•    Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
•    Data warehouses and business intelligence
•    Workflow systems
•    Knowledge management systems
•    Content management systems

Important dates
•    Paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
•    Tutorial submission deadline: 13 December 2013
•    Notification of acceptance: 17 February 2014
•    Conference, Workshops & Related Events: 16-20 June 2014

Author Guidelines
Types of contributions. We invite four types of original and scientific papers:
Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own practice.
Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation.
Submission Conditions. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Publication. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'14 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors elected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an expanded version for publication in the journal, Information Systems.

Venue
Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece, with a population of 1.000.000 people. Apart from its landmark, the White Tower, the city boasts important historical sites, museums and cultural activities. It is also known as a cosmopolitan and commercial center, with exceptional nightlife in its famous Ladadika quarter. The music scene in the city is vibrant and diverse and includes nightclubs, dance halls, discos, cafes and music bars, jazz clubs and more, along with a wealth of live performances, both musical and theatrical. In addition to important Byzantine and Archaeological museums within the city, travellers can visit the Archaeological site of Vergina (the capital of ancient Macedonia). This is the venue of Phillip's tomb (the father of Alexander the Great), a site full of remarkable treasures of art and culture. Also within a short distance (45 minutes by car) one can visit mount Olympus (the mountain of the ancient Gods) where "Dion" the holy city of ancient Macedonia is located. For these and many other reasons, Thessaloniki is the cultural capital of northern Greece! CAISE'2014 will be hosted at the MET Hotel (http://www.themethotel.gr), located very close to the historic center of Thessaloniki, 17 km from "Macedonia" airport. A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference registrants.

Organising Committee
Steering Committee
•    Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Advisory Committee
•    Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
•    Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chairs
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
•    Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Program Board Chair
•    Eric Dubois, Public Research Center H. Tudor, Luxembourg
Program Chairs
•    Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
•    John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
•    Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tutorial and Panel Chairs
•    Jaelson Castro, University of Pernambuco, Brasil
•    Dimitri Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Workshops Chairs
•    Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
•    Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
•    Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Forum Chairs
•    Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
•    Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organizing Committee Chairs
•    Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publicity Chairs
•    Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
•    Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
•    Eric Yu, University of Totonto, Canada
•    Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
•    Naoufel Kraiem, Université de Manouba, Tunisia

Web and Social Media Master
•    Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

See website for full details.

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22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)

================ Call for Papers ================


ECIS 2014 - June 8-11 - Tel Aviv: Submission Dates and Guidelines


Paper Submission begins: 1 November, 2013

Call for Papers Submission Deadline Date: 8 December, 2013

Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2014

Panel submission deadline: 5 March, 2014

Final version of accepted papers due: 30 March, 2014

Early Bird Registration closes: 16 April, 2014



Digital Work, Digital Life. Our physical reality is increasingly entangled with digital representations. We are continuously connecting to distant others via email, text and social media on our mobile devices. We rely on big data analytics to help us take action in our increasingly complex world and inanimate objects are beginning to communicate with one another in “the Internet of things.” At ECIS 2014 we want to make the exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with increasing digitality in both our work and everyday lives a key theme. Not only will ECIS 2014 feature conference tracks that focus on digital innovation but it will also introduce new forms of conferencing and interacting. ECIS 2014 will leverage digital technology for participants to meet and interact in new ways. It will also offer a variety of presentation modalities including paper presentations, interactive posters and demos, and developmental roundtable discussions. ECIS 2014 will al so include an industry track where experts in such fields as cyber security, mobile technology and digital innovation will share their insights.


The complete CFP is available on the ECIS 2014 website: http://ecis2014.eu/call-for-papers/


General Submission Requirements

Tracks

All papers need to be submitted to one "and only one" of the 24 tracks that constitute the ECIS 2014 program http://ecis2014.eu/the-tracks/ :



01 Digital Work, Digital Life (conference theme)

02 Advancing Theories and Theorizing in IS Research

03 Alternative Genres

04 Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management

05 Business Model and Entrepreneurship Research in IS

06 Business Process Management

07 Designing Collaboration

08 Decision Support and Big Data

09 Digital Health Initiatives

10 Economics and Value of IS

11 General IS Topics and Breakthrough Ideas

12 Human-Computer Interaction

13 IT Project Management

14 IS Security and Privacy

15 IT Strategy and Governance

16 Mobile Life and Mobile Technologies

17 Openness and IT

18 IS Teaching Cases

19 Research Methods and Philosophy

20 Service Innovation, Engineering, and Management

21 Social Media Research and Analytics within and between Organizations

22 Sustainably Digital

23 The Digital Public Sector

24 Panels



Submission Types

ECIS 2014 invites five types of submissions:

# Completed Research Papers

# Research-in-Progress Papers

# Teaching Cases (submitted to Teaching Cases Track only)

# Prototypes

# Panels (please note: submission deadline for panels is 5 March, 2014)


Important Dates for Authors


Open for Online Submissions

The ECIS 2014 submissions website is open from 1 November, 2013 until 8 December, 2013. All submission types (completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, teaching cases, prototypes, and panels) must adhere to the submission guidelines outlined in this webpage. No submissions (except panels) will be accepted after midnight Central European Time (GMT+1), 8 December, 2013. Submissions can only be done online through the submission system on the website.

Please note that this is a strict deadline; there will be no extensions granted either as a whole or to individual submitters.



Author Notification Date:

Authors will be notified as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected by 2 March, 2014.


Authors Revisions Due Date:

Authors must have their final submissions submitted by 30 March, 2014.



Early Bird Registration Due Date:

At least one author of every accepted submission must register for the conference by the Early Bird registration date, which is 16 April, 2014.


Author presentations at ECIS 2014:

At least one author of every accepted submission must register for ECIS 2014 and be prepared to present their papers in Tel Aviv at any time during the conference (Monday 9 June, to Wednesday 11 June). Failure to comply with this requirement may result in a paper’s withdrawal from the ECIS 2014 Proceedings.


More detailed submission requirements can be found at: http://ecis2014.eu/

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The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'14)

The 26th International Conference on 

Advanced Information Systems Engineering 

CAiSE'14 

16-20 June 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/

*** Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis ***

Real-time information systems and overly complex financial products have
been blamed as causes of recent financial crises. The IS Engineering
community is treating such phenomena as challenges, to be addressed through
research and improved practices. In particular, our community has begun to
address the role of information systems in predicting, preventing, and
reacting to crises of many different kinds: data-centric financial and
fiscal dependency analysis of the globalized financial systems, resilience
of critical infrastructures by information management, reaction to natural
disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Due to the very nature of
crises as unexpected events with broad and vast impact, IS Engineering
challenges traditional wisdom and methodologies, as well as interactions
between research and practice including stakeholders such as crisis victims.

CAiSE '14 will, as always, act as a forum of discussion that brings together
researchers and practitioners in the field of IS Engineering. It will be the
place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience
reports in our discipline.

CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information
systems engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to
papers that address the role of IS engineering in crisis situations. Four
kinds of contributions are accepted:
- Formal and/or technical papers
- Empirical evaluation papers
- Experience papers
- Exploratory papers

The CAiSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

----- Methods, techniques and tools for IS engineering • Innovation and
creativity in IS engineering • Enterprise architecture and enterprise
modelling • Requirements engineering • Business process modeling, analysis
and management • Requirements, models, and software reuse • Adaptation,
evolution and flexibility issues • Domain engineering • IS in networked &
virtual organizations • Method engineering • Knowledge, information, and
data quality • Languages and models • Mining, monitoring and predicting •
Variability and configuration • Matching, compliance and alignment issues •
Conceptual design and modelling • Security • Service science

----- Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS •
Service-oriented architecture • Model-driven architecture • Component based
development • Agent architecture • Distributed, mobile, and open
architecture • Innovative database technology • Semantic web • IS and
ubiquitous technologies • Adaptive and context-aware IS

----- Domain specific IS engineering:
• Crisis Management
• eGovernment
• Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
• Data warehouses and business intelligence • Workflow systems • Knowledge
management systems • Content management systems

Important dates
• Workshop submission deadline: 18 October 2013
• Paper submission deadline: 29 November 2013
• Tutorial submission deadline: 13 December 2013
• Notification of acceptance: 17 February 2014
• Conference, Workshops & Related Events: 16-20 June 2014

Download the Conference Call for papers for details:
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/files/CAiSE_2014_CfP_v4.pdf

Organising Committee
Steering Committee
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
• John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Advisory Committee
• Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
• Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chairs
• Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
• Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Program Board Chair
• Eric Dubois, Public Research Center H. Tudor, Luxembourg
Program Chairs
• Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
• Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tutorial and Panel Chairs
• Jaelson Castro, University of Pernambuco, Brasil
• Dimitri Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Workshops Chairs
• Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
• Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Forum Chairs
• Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
• Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
• Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organizing Committee Chairs
• Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publicity Chairs
• Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
• Eric Yu, University of Totonto, Canada
• Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
• Naoufel Kraiem, Université de Manouba, Tunisia
Web and Social Media Master
• Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

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Special Issue on Big Data in Business & Information Systems Engineering - BISE Journal (Wirtschaftsinformatik)

Special Issue on Big Data
BISE Journal
Business & Information Systems Engineering
http://www.bise-journal.com/

Since Jim Gray started his huge astronomy project at Microsoft to proclaim the
age of data science in the late 1990s, this approach has proliferated to many
other areas beyond the natural sciences. In Information Systems, the 1990s saw
the analysis of historical data collected in data warehouses. Soon after, the
quasi real-time analysis of high-frequency trading in finance added the data
stream aspect to data mining. Search engines, web commerce, and social media
have added text mining, social network analysis, and heterogeneous data analysis
to the spectrum.

The buzzword "Big Data" nowadays characterizes analytical systems with extreme
data Volume, high data Variety, and rapid data generation Velocity. Even though
this buzzword is surely approaching its peak in the Gartner lifecycle, there are
many arguments why this trend will continue and even accelerate in the coming
years. The Internet of Things accelerates data generation by integrating
billions of sensors, the media spectrum is broadened by image, audio, and video,
and ever faster multicore and parallel computers produce ever more complex
simulation results that need to be administered and analyzed. This offers
numerous chances for business, public administration, and all kinds of sciences.
But intrinsically, it also increases dependency on systems and allows systems to
enter more and more deeply into areas of life that until very recently were
unquestionably private. Nationally and internationally, very many research
endeavours have begun to explore these new chances and challenges.

The planned special issue wants to contribute to the scientific debate
especially of the role of business information systems in this major societal
change. We desire contributions from research and practice e.g. on the following
themes:

* Strategic role of big data for competitiveness and service quality
* Empirical studies of the impact of big data
* Legal and regulatory aspects of big data
* Privacy-aware data mining
* Big data in specific aspects of business such as finance, marketing, logistics, etc.
* Big data in public sector services and government planning
* Big data und Cyberphysical Systems in business
* Data quality and Big Data
* Role of novel big data technologies such as stream mining, main memory databases, cloud computing, etc.
* Big data analysis of heterogeneous data sources

The emphasis of submissions should be on data-centric approaches; purely
model-centric methods, even if they work with large data sets, are not in the
focus of the special issue.

***** Submission Guidelines *****

Please submit papers for the sections BISE Research Paper and BISE State of
the Art by 2013-11-01 at the latest via the journal online submission system
(http://www.editorialmanager.com/buis/). Please observe the instructions
regarding the format and size of contributions to Business & Information Systems
Engineering (BISE)/WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. Papers should not exceed 50,000
characters including spaces, minus 5,000 characters per page for
illustrations.
Detailed authors guidelines can be downloaded from http://www.bise-journal.org .
All papers will be reviewed anonymously (double-blind process) by several
referees with regard to relevance, originality, and research quality. In
addition to the editors of the journal, including those of this special focus,
distinguished national and international professionals with scientific and
practical backgrounds will be involved in the review process.

Complementary articles covering topics of this special focus are also more than
welcome. Accepted papers will appear identically in English and German.
The English-language version will appear in Business & Information Systems
Engineering (BISE), the German-language version will appear in
WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK.

***** Schedule *****

Paper submission deadline: 2013-11-1
Author notification: 2014-1-10
First revision due: 2014-2-28
Second author notification: 2014-4-18
Final revision due (one language): 2014-5-23
Final revision due (second language): 2014-6-20

***** Special Issue Editors *****

Professor Vasant Dhar Ph.D.
Stern School of Business
New York University, USA
New York, USAUniversity of Liechtenstein
vdhar@stern.nyu.edu

Professor Dr. Matthias Jarke
Information Systems
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
jarke@cs.rwth-aachen.de

Dr. Jürgen Laartz
McKinsey & Company
Juergen.laartz@mckinsey.com

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CAiSE'13 Workshop - Sixth International i* Workshop (iStar'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth International i* Workshop (iStar'13)

Valencia, Spain, 17-21 June, 2013

Co-located with the 25th International Conference on Advanced

Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13).

www.cin.ufpe.br/~istar13

A growing number of groups around the world have been using the i*
modelling framework in their research on early requirements engineering,
business process design, organization modelling, software development
methodologies, and more. Following successful workshops in Trento
(2002), London (2005), Recife (2008), Hammamet (2010), and Trento (2011)
it is time for another meeting focusing on i*, GRL, Tropos, and related
frameworks, to exchange ideas, compare notes, and forge new collaborations.

We cordially invite you and members of your group to join us at the
Sixth International i* Workshop. The 2-day workshop will be held in
Valencia, Spain, 17-21 June, 2013, as a co-located event with the 25th
International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'13). Following a successful Tools Fair in iStar'11, we will be
accepting papers and demos concerning iStar-related tools.

FORMAT

The objective of the workshop is to share knowledge, stimulate
discussion and foster new lines of research and collaboration among
different groups.

To support these goals, we will schedule as much time for discussion as
for presentations - the actual time will depend on the final number of
accepted papers. For every accepted paper, we will assign one discussant
that will provide an initial position about the paper once presented,
and then discussion will follow. If the schedule allows, we plan to
include further occasions for discussion in the program, in addition to
the customary wrap-up session.

The program will also include a keynote talk.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Contributions should be 4-6 pages in LNCS format, describing current and
ongoing research related the i* framework. The contribution shall adhere
to the following structure:

- Title, authors, abstract
- Section 1. Introduction.
- Section 2. Objectives of the research.
- Section 3. Scientific contributions. If you have tool support, please
mention and describe it explicitly
- Section 4. Conclusions. Of particular interest are any assessments of
i* and related frameworks, including industrial experiences
- Section 5. Ongoing and future work
- References. Please restrict references to mainly your own work.

All submissions should be uploaded to easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istar13

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted works will be
published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series.

TOOL SUBMISSIONS

The i* Workshop will include a slot for tool demos. The demos will
consist of a two-minute presentation of two slides (automatic transition
from one slide to the next will be enforced) and then the floor will be
opened for demos.

In order to submit a tool, fill out a form providing information about
your tool by creating a wiki page on the i* wiki
(http://istar.rwth-aachen.de/tiki-index.php?page=i*+Tools). If a page on
the wiki already exists for your tool, please update it as appropriate.
Contact istarwiki@dbis.rwth-aachen.de if you require a new user name and
password for the wiki.

Prepare a three page description of the tool, using LNCS format.
Descriptions should include a screen shot of the tool and should cover
the following points:

- Tool name and version
- Download information/availability
- Web page and documentation
- Goal modeling framework supported
- Main purpose of the tool
- Primary features
- Status and maturity
- Limitations and future plans
- Interoperability with other tools
- Use in industrial case studies (if applicable)

All descriptions should be uploaded to easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istar13

The tool submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings Series, as part of the iStar workshop proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 23rd, 2013 Abstracts Due
April 1st, 2013 Paper Deadline
May 1st, 2013 Notification
May 15th, 2013 Camera Ready & Author Registration Deadline
June 17th-21st, 2013 iStar 2013 in Valencia, Spain

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Jaelson Castro Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Jennifer Horkoff University of Trento, Italy
Neil Maiden City University London, United Kingdom
Eric Yu University of Toronto, Canada

TOOL SUBMISSIONS ORGANIZER

Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Italy

WORKSHOP STEERING COMMITTEE

Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
John Mylopoulos University of Trento, Italy

For further questions contact istar13@easychair.org (Subject: iStar'13)

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Professor position at Paris-Dauphine University

Full Professor Position in Computer Science

Paris Dauphine University
Position No: 0288

Job profile:

The University Paris-Dauphine opens a full professor position in Computer
Science. Research will be carried within the Data Management and
Information Systems research groups of the LAMSADE Lab, CNRS UMR 7243.
Teaching will occur for several University Departments, but mainly for the
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Research Fields: Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems,
Big Data Analytics

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Research:

Profile: the recruited professor will carry his/her research within the
LAMSADE (see below) and for the University Paris Dauphine. More
specifically we are looking for senior researchers with a strong record in
fields such as algorithmic for massive data bases, data warehouses, web
services, cloud computing, data oriented engineering, process modeling and
management, information systems, knowledge management and decision support.

Potential candidates are invited to get in touch with:

Alexis Tsoukias, director of the LAMSADE

Location: LAMSADE UMR CNRS no 7243, University Paris-Dauphine, France

Director of the laboratory: Alexis Tsoukias

Phone : 0144054401

e-mail: tsoukias@lamsade.dauphine.fr

URL: www.lamsade.dauphine.fr

About the laboratory: the LAMSADE is a joint laboratory of Université
Paris Dauphine and the CNRS. The research activities of the lab are at the
edge of Computer Science and Decision Support (and more specifically
Operational Research). Both fundamental and applied research is carried
around subjects such as: decision support, decision theory, social choice
theory, operational research, combinatorial optimization, algorithmic
complexity, mathematical programming, decision and artificial
intelligence, information systems, data bases, analytics. We are proud to
be a world class laboratory in Decision Sciences and Technologies.


Teaching:

Profile: the recruited professor is expected to contribute to the training
provided by the Computer Science and Mathematics Department of the
University. Likely she/he may have to teach also for classes for other
University Departments. Teaching may need to be carried at any among the
five years of classes. More specifically it is expected to be able to
teach data bases, information systems, as well as software engineering,
programming languages, web technology etc. Under such a perspective being
experienced in teaching in such fields will be highly appreciated. It is
also expected that the recruited professor will soon be asked to take upon
relevant organization and training responsibilities.

Training Department: MIDO (Mathematiques, Informatique de la Decision et
des Organisations)

Location: University Paris-Dauphine, France

Department co-director: Ridha Mahjoub

Phone: 01 44 05 48 96

e-mail: mahjoub@lamsade.dauphine.fr

URL: www.mido.dauphine.fr

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Faculty position (MCF) at Paris-Dauphine University

Faculty position at Paris-Dauphine University
Position no: 0230

Job profile

Paris-Dauphine University opens a teaching and research position (maitre
de confences) in Computer Science in data management and information
systems fields. Research will take place at LAMSADE Lab. Teaching will
take place in the University departments, mainly the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science (MIDO).

Research Fields: Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems,
Big Data Analytics

Contact:
Professor Daniela Grigori: daniela.grigori@lamsade.dauphine.fr


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Recherche:

Profil: The recruited person will carry his/her research within the
LAMSADE (see below) and for the University Paris Dauphine in data
management and information systems. The research topics that are currently
addressed in Lamsade in these fields are: algorithmic for masses of
complex data, data warehouse for scientific data, Web Services, business
process management, cloud computing, management of web and heterogeneous
data.

Potential candidates are invited to get in touch with:

Professor Daniela Grigori: daniela.grigori@lamsade.dauphine.fr


Location: LAMSADE UMR CNRS no 7243, University Paris-Dauphine

Director of the laboratory: Alexis Tsoukias

Phone: 0144054401

e-mail: tsoukias@lamsade.dauphine.fr

URL: www.lamsade.dauphine.fr

About the laboratory: the LAMSADE is a joint laboratory of Université
Paris Dauphine and the CNRS. The research activities of the lab are at the
edge of Computer Science and Decision Support (and more specifically
Operational Research). Both fundamental and applied research is carried
around subjects such as: decision support, decision theory, social choice
theory, operational research, combinatorial optimization, algorithmic
complexity, mathematical programming, decision and artificial
intelligence, information systems, data bases, analytics. We are proud to
be a world class laboratory in Decision Sciences and Technologies.


Teaching:

Profile: the recruited person is expected to contribute to the training
provided by the Computer Science and Mathematics Department of the
University. Likely she/he may have to teach also classes for other
University Departments. Teaching may need to be carried at any among the
five years of studies. More specifically he is expected to be able to
teach mainly information systems and databases. Experience in other fields
like software engineering, programming languages, data mining, web
technology, networks, will be highly appreciated:.

Training Department: MIDO (Mathematiques, Informatique de la Decision et
des Organisations)

Location: Paris-Dauphine University

Department co-director: Ridha Mahjoub

Phone: 01 44 05 48 96

e-mail: mahjoub@lamsade.dauphine.fr

URL: www.mido.dauphine.fr

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Deadline extension - PACIS 2013 IS Education and Learning Track

PACIS 2013 Track 17. IS Education and Learning

Deadline Extended to 16th Feb of PACIS

The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2013, Jeju Island, Korea, June 18-22 2013, www.pacis2013.org

Track Co-Chairs: Honglei Li, University of Northumbria, honglei.li@northumbria.ac.uk

Don Sheridan, University of Auckland Business School – d.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz

Description 

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey
IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field.  As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region.  These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.

The track in IS education and learning will discuss and explore various IS education and learning methods to enhance students' learning experience. The focus of this track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy, practice, and student learning experiences.

We welcome high quality papers on the topics of, but not limited to, the following areas:

·         Curriculum innovations, design and model curricula

o   Active learning classrooms

o   Curriculum models and industry requirements

·         Enhancing students' learning experiences through new technologies

o   Experience-oriented teaching

o   Technology enhanced learning experience

·         Pedagogical approaches and evaluation

o   flipped classrooms

o   rubric marking

o   team based learning

o   team assessment methodologies

o   student-peer reviews

o   learning analytics

o   formative assessment & feedback

o   recommender systems

o   tablet technologies for teaching and learning

·         Program assessment and accreditation issues

o   Evaluations of commercial and institutional applications

o   Assurance of learning

·         Work integrated learning

o   Cooperative work terms

·         Educational technologies and Web 2.0 in IS education

o   Social networking

o   virtual communities

o   Performance change due to new teaching technologies

·         Online game / simulation-based learning (G/SL)

o   Assessment & evaluation of G/SL

·         Mobile apps-based learning

o   Learning objects

o   Interactive pod/web casts

o   Smart phones as classroom response systems

·         Ethical and social issues

o   Privacy, security and accountability

o   Plagiarism

·         Distance education

o   Models for life-long learning

·         E-Learning and asynchronous media

o   Taxonomies of discourse and assessment

·         Blended-learning and case-based teaching

·         Return on Investment (ROI) for innovations in Teaching & Learning

We have received many requests to extend the submission deadline for papers for PACIS 2013. We therefore decide to extend the deadline to submit papers by two weeks. We look forward to receive your paper by no later than February 16, 2013. Please make sure that you submit your paper(s) by this new deadline

The PACIS 2013 Organizing Committee cordially invites paper submission. The PACIS 2013 will be held on 18-22 June 2013 in Jeju Island, Korea (www.pacis2013.org). The conference location, Jeju Island, known as the "Island of the Gods," is selected as one of "New 7 Wonders of Nature (http://www.new7wonders.com/)." PACIS 2013 participants will have the opportunity not only to build and maintain connections with IS scholars in Asian region, but also to experience the excellent natural beauty of Jeju Island.

All submissions will be in English and will be double blind reviewed. The conference accepts completed research papers or research-in-progress papers. All submissions should be submitted through EasyChair system (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013)

High quality and relevant papers from PACIS 2013 will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue of several journals, including Information and Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Systems Frontiers, and Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013; February 16, 2013

DC Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2013;

Paper Decision: April 1, 2013;

DC Decision: April 15, 2013;

Submission Deadline of Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013

The conference is supported by the Association for Information Systems and hosted by the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (KMIS), which is the largest IS professional institute in Korea.

For more information, please visit the conference website (www.pacis2013.org) or contact program chairs:

Prof. Jae-Nam Lee, Korea University Business School, isjnlee@korea.ac.kr

Prof. Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University of China, jiyemao@yahoo.com

Prof. James Thong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, jthong@ust.hk

We look forward to seeing you in Jeju Island in Korea in June 2013!

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Special Issue on "Requirement Engineering Processes in Information Systems" - IJBIS

Call for papers

Int. J. of Business Information Systems

Special Issue on: "Requirement Engineering Processes in Information Systems"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Saqib Saeed, Bahria University, Pakistan
Dr. Sameer Abufardeh, North Dakota State University, USA
Dr. Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK

Information systems (IS) play a crucial role in decision making by providing appropriate information storage, analysis and distribution support for managers. Most information system projects fail due to weak requirement engineering processes. Problems such as inadequate requirement elicitation, poor requirement analysis and negotiation processes and lack of appropriate requirement management practices hinder the realisation of effective information systems.

Furthermore, diversity in IS application areas has emphasised the need for innovative requirement engineering (RE) methodologies tailored to the needs of application domains. Traditional requirement engineering literature has mainly focused on bespoke development and market-driven requirement engineering has gained little attention.

The objectives of this special issue are twofold: (i) to invite ideas, suggestions and recommendations and publish high quality contributions examining the inherent issues in effective requirement engineering processes and (ii) to invite case studies and disseminate best practices employed by organisations, project managers and practitioners.

We intend to present contributions that will be useful and of interest to academicians from a range of fields including information systems, software engineering and system engineering.

Subject Coverage

We invite contributions with a special focus on computing discipline. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Market-driven requirement engineering (MDRE) vs. requirement engineering in bespoke systems
• Requirement elicitation approaches for information system development
• Quality in requirement engineering processes
• Requirement engineering and software standards
• Requirement triage and advanced requirement prioritisation techniques
• Requirement analysis methodologies
• Requirement traceability
• Requirement management challenges
• Ethnography and requirement elicitation
• Requirement validation and verification mechanisms
• Requirement specification approaches in practice
• Relevant tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Case studies

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Please read our information on preparing and submitting articles.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an email to the following:

Dr. Saqib Saeed
Bahria University
Department of Graduate Studies and Applied Sciences
Shangrila Road
Islamabad 44000
Pakistan
saqib.saeed@gmail.com

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission: 30 May, 2013

Results notification: 30 August, 2013

Final paper submission: 30 October, 2013

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Professor for databases and information systems at Kaiserslautern University, Gemany

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany is inviting applications for the position of a

Professor (W3, tenured) for Computer Science with an emphasis on "Databases and Information Systems"

The research work of the applicant is expected to provide innovative contributions in the area of databases and information systems. Possible topics of work in this area include:

* Data in the Web and in the Cloud: "Big Data", scalable data analysis, NoSQL-databases, data security and privacy, social networks;
* Mobile and ubiquitous data systems: mobile DBMS, context/situation awareness, ambient intelligence/pervasive computing, data stream processing;
* Large information systems: scientific databases, adaptivity, virtualization, services;
* DBMS core functionality: architecture, transaction management, data models, semantics, query processing, semi-structured data;

Kaiserslautern is one of the important computer science locations in Germany. The Department of Computer Science combines well-founded education with excellence in applications and regularly scores top positions in relevant rankings. The associated research institutes such as the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems offer a range of collaboration opportunities.

Candidates are expected to possess outstanding scientific qualifications in addition to excellent didactic skills and experience in teaching. We also encourage applications from junior scientists. An earned doctoral degree and additional qualifications corresponding to the position profile are regarded as employment requirements. We expressively welcome applicants without German language skills. While courses in the master programs are held in English, our bachelor program courses are taught in German and we expect
such courses to be held in German after the first three years of employment.


In addition, the employment requirements as documented in §49 of the Higher Education Act of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz are applicable. The text can be accessed on the Kaiserslautern University homepage
(http://www.uni-kl.de/wcms/ha1-rechtsvorschrift.html).

The University of Kaiserslautern is striving for raising the number of women in research and teaching. Female academics with the requested qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants with children are welcome.

Qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference (please enclose statement).

The State of Rheinland-Pfalz and the University of Kaiserslautern have established a supervision concept that expects faculty members to show a high degree of presence at the university. Moreover, willingness to
participate in university committee work is expected.

Applications containing appropriate documents in German or English language (CV, documentation of scientific career, list of publications, overview of external funding, copies of certificates, as well as one copy of the three most important English publications) should be posted by January 31st 2013 to the following address:

Dekanat des Fachbereichs Informatik
Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Postfach 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Please also send the application electronically in PDF format to <dekanat@informatik.uni-kl.de>. Please contact the Dean of the Department of Computer Science, Prof. Dr. Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter
<poetzsch@informatik.uni-kl.de> if you have further questions.

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Special Issue on The Role of Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation - JAIS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)

The Role of Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation

SPECIAL ISSUE CO-EDITORS

Eoin Whelan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland eoin.whelan@nuigalway.ie

Kieran Conboy, University of New South Wales, Australia k.conboy@unsw.edu.au

Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA crowston@syr.edu

Lorraine Morgan, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland Lorraine.morgan@ul.ie

Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland matti.rossi@aalto.fi

The concept of open innovation advocates that in today’s increasingly boundary free world, organizations should seek to exploit inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand themarkets for external use of innovation (Chesbrough 2003). This open model of innovation challenges the traditional closed view, where invention and design is restricted to internal resources. Indeed, the past decade has witnessed a flurry of experimentation with different styles of open innovation in industries as diverse as consumer goods, semi-conductors, automotive engineering, and software engineering. IS has played a prominent role in creating the necessity for, and the implementation of, open innovation models. For example, the convergence of cheap personal computers, fiber optic cable, and powerful workflow software has been attributed to the “flattening” of the planet and the rise in global collaboration (Friedman 2006). Major corporations like IBM, GE, Boeing, and Proctor & Gamble have integrated online crowdsourcing platforms as part of their open innovation programs. Likewise, the open source software movement is also often viewed as a role model for openinnovation.

Yet, open innovation theory is not without controversy. Mowery (2009) questions whether open innovation is actually a new theory of innovation while Groen and Linton (2010) suggest that the conceptitself is a communication barrier to theory development. Trott and Hartman (2009) are even more forceful and argue that Chesbrough creates a false dichotomy by claiming that open innovation is the only alternative to a closed innovation model.

While open innovation may be a growing trend, it is clear that better theory is needed in order to extract the potential value it offers. IS has much to contribute to the development of this theory due to the pivotal role of digital technologies in enabling open innovation initiatives. However, the IS field has so far taken a very narrow perception of this important business paradigm. Within the open innovation movement, IS scholars have primarily directed their attention towards the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) phenomenon (von Hippel and von Krogh 2003). While IS research has aided in refining and extending open innovation theory, through investigations of crowdsourcing platforms (Di Gangi and Wasko 2009; Leimeister 2009), web-enabled innovation brokers (Whelan et al. 2012), proprietary knowledge leakage (Teigland and Wasko 2003), open IS development (Conboy and Morgan 2011), and IT’s contribution to absorptive capacity (Chatterjee et al. 2002; Chircu and Kauffman 2000), studies in this vein have been sporadic over the past decade.

As open innovation is rapidly gaining importance in research and practice, new questions and challenges arise that require a deeper understanding of these phenomena from an IS perspective.  There is much that has yet to be understood about the role of IS in enabling open innovation, and the implications of open innovation movement on the various aspects of the IS discipline.  The aim of this special issue is to expandand advance the state of open innovation research within the IS field, highlighting work that makes significant theoretical and empirical advances to our understanding of IT enabled open innovation.

Example topics for the special issue

Papers are invited for the special issue on any topic related to the role of IS in enabling open innovation. Papers should be theory-driven or theory-building, with clear implications for further research and practice. Example topics include:

*           IS enabled open innovation models

*            Open innovation in services and the enablement role of IS, and particularly cloud computing

*           The application of social capital, social network, and value creation theories to open innovation communities

*           Alignment of IS and open innovation models

*           IS case studies that describe the implementation of open innovation in organizational settings

*          Open innovation/co-creation through digital enabled social networks

*          Open principles in information systems development e.g. distributed environments, intra and inter-organizational development

*           The translation of FLOSS best practice to the non-software realm

*            Use of ICT in inter-organizational innovation systems

*            Technology scouting and the role of social media

*            The intersection of knowledge management and open innovation

*            The role of IS in closed innovation, and the evolution from closed to open

*           Assessing organizational boundaries in open innovation networking

*            Knowledge leakage and other legal issues in open innovation communities

*            Globally Distributed open innovation teams

*            Issues for R&D and IT departments in implementing open collaboration systems .

Important dates

Initial submissions of full papers: 5^th August 2013

Reviews sent to authors: 2^nd December 2013

Workshop: 16^th December 2013 at ICIS (for papers through to 2^nd round)

Revised papers from authors due: 31^st March 2014

Decision notification: 30^th June 2014

Final papers due: 25^th August 2014

Publication (anticipated): November 2014

Editorial review board

Göran Goldkuhl, Linkoping University, Sweden

Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein

Jason Thatcher, Clemons University, USA

Jeremy Hayes, University College Cork, Ireland

Joe Feller, University College Cork, Ireland

Karl-Heinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Pat Finnegan, University of New South Wales, Australia

Paul DiGangi, Loyola University, USA

Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Salvatore Parise, Babson College, USA

Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University, USA

Xiaofeng Wang, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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