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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ACIS Award - Requirements Bazaar won RE'13 Best Tool Demo Award

Image courtesy of Dominik Renzel

At the 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 15th to 19th July, 2013, Dominik Renzel from the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University presented a poster and demonstration of Requirements Bazaar, a Web-based tool for Social Requirements Engineering. In contrast to previous years, best poster and tool demo awards were judged by the conference audience. Each conference participant could vote by attaching sticky notes in different colors standing for different amounts of points. Our demo received by far the most sticky notes with "good colors" in comparison to the 7 other demos. In the end, we won the prestigious RE'13 Best Tool Demo award. Thanks to all colleagues contributing to this very nice result! In particular, we thank our student Malte Behrendt, who realized the Requirements Bazaar in his master thesis. 

More information on Requirements Bazaar including videos, papers, etc. is available at http://requirements-bazaar.org/info.

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ACIS Preprint - Requirements Bazaar: Social Requirements Engineering for Community-Driven Innovation

A preprint of our RE 2013 contribution "Requirements Bazaar: Social Requirements Engineering for Community-Driven Innovation" is available. Dominik Renzel will present the Requirements Bazaar demo next week in Rio. You can do that also right now. If you prefer to watch videos, there is also a video download available. Here is another ACIS screencast of the Requirements Bazaar.

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ACIS Screencast - Requirements Bazaar: Social Requirements Engineering for Community-Driven Innovation

Dominik Renzel did this screencast for our demo at the 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

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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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32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)

First Call for Papers

32nd International Conference
on Conceptual Modeling (ER

2013)

http://www.hkws.org/conference/ER2013/

Hong Kong, November 11-13, 2013.

Introduction
------------
The ER International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is a leading
international forum for presenting and discussing current research and
applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. Topics
of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including
research and practice in areas such as: theories of concepts and
ontologies underlying conceptual modeling; methods and tools for
developing and communicating conceptual models; and techniques for
transforming conceptual models into effective implementations. Also of
interest are topics related to the interaction of conceptual modeling
techniques with business strategy models and the effects (economical,
organizational, and so forth) of good conceptual modeling techniques on
the development of information systems. We encourage submissions relating
to all aspects of conceptual modeling and specifically encourage research
on topics of emerging interest.


Target audiences and the scope
------------------------------
We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and
vision papers, from both researchers and practitioners, welcoming any
topic where conceptual modeling is a major theme. We specifically
encourage submissions on the application and role of conceptual modeling
techniques in new and emerging areas such as large data repositories for
business intelligence, cloud computing and NoSQL databases.

Specific examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
conceptual modeling as applied to:
Foundations and Concept Formalization
Big Data
NoSQL Databases and Enterprise Business Models
Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, and Web Information Systems
Enterprise Architectures and Service-Oriented Architectures
Quality and Metrics of Conceptual Models
Empirical Studies of Conceptual Modeling
Ontology Modeling and Deployment
Business Process Modeling
Semi-structured Data and XML
Development and Management of Conceptual Models for Big Data
Integration of Conceptual Models and Database Schemas
Information Retrieval, Filtering, Classification, Summarization, and
Visualization
Methodologies and Tools for Conceptual Design
Requirements Engineering
Reuse, Patterns, and Object-Oriented Design
Reverse Engineering and Roundtrip Engineering
Schema Evolution and Management of Database Constraints
Spatial, Temporal, and Multimedia Aspects in Conceptual Models
Metadata and Applications
Data warehousing, Data Mining, and Business Intelligence
Applications to bioinformatics, cyber security, and privacy
Data Semantics and Integrity Constraints
Advanced and Cross-Disciplinary Applications of Conceptual Models


Important Dates
----------------
Paper abstract submission: April 1st, 2013
Full paper submission: April 8th, 2013
Paper notification: June 10th, 2013
Camera-ready paper submission: July 15th, 2013
Author registration: July 21st, 2013


ER 2013 Awards and Special Issue
--------------------------------
Springer Verlag will sponsor two awards:

Best Student Paper Award: to be given to the best paper whose first
author is a student.
Best Paper Award: to be given to the best paper.

Selected papers may be invited to submit their extended version of their
papers to a DKE special issue


Submission Guidelines
----------------------
Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series,
authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details.
The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready
papers) is 14. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding
the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

A paper submitted to ER 2013 may not be under review for any other
conference or journal during the time it is being considered for ER 2013.
Submitted papers must demonstrate to be aware of the state-of-the art
literature in conceptual modeling by properly citing relevant papers in
the field.


Submission Instructions
------------------------
Submission to ER 2013 will be electronically managed via EasyChair.
Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full
paper. The submission page of ER-2013 is
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2013. Submitted papers must
demonstrate awareness of the state-of-the-art of the literature in
conceptual modeling by properly citing relevant papers in the field.


Program Co-Chairs
------------------
Wilfred Ng, HKUST (Hong Kong, China)
Veda C. Storey, Gerogia State Unviersity (USA)
Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante (Spain)


Program Committee
-----------------
Jacky Akoka, CNAM & TEM, France
Manish Anand, Salesforce, LTD
Jacky Akoka, CNAM & TEM, France
Jordi Cabot, INRIA-école des Mines de Nantes, France
Silvana Castano, University of Milano, Italy
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Avigdor Gal, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israeli
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Jean-Luc Hainaut, University of Namur, Belgium
Arantza Illarramendi, Basque Country University, Spain
Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
Jan Mendling, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Oscar Pastor Lopez, University of Valencia, Spain
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Henderik Proper, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israeli
Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Ernest Teniente, Unversitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Norman Paton, The University of Manchester, UK
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Esperanza Marcos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
Ivan Jureta, University of Namur, Belgium
Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany
Roel Wieringa, University of twente, Netherlands
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Valeria De Antonellis, University of Brescia, Italy
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israeli
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University, USA
Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA
Isabel F. Cruz, University of Illinois, USA
Faiz Currim, University of Arizona, USA
Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA
David W. Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stephen Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
José Palazzo M. De Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sandeep Purao, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel UNiversity, USA
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
James Terwilliger, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University, USA
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Zhu Zhang, University of Arizona, USA
Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Julio Cesar Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tokwang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Fred Lochovsky, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
HKSAR
Xiaoling Wang, Fudan university, China
Sang-Goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
James Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Maryam Razavian, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
Felix Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany
Sandro Bimonte, irstea, France
Patrick Marcel, Université François Rabelais Tours, Laboratoire
d'Informatique, France
Zhifeng Bao, University of Singapour, Singapore
Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ada Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
Yi Cai, South China University of Technology, China
Yiping Ke, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Jordi Cabot, INRIA-école des Mines de Nantes, France
Silvana Castano, University of Milano, Italy
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Avigdor Gal, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israeli
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Jean-Luc Hainaut, University of Namur, Belgium
Arantza Illarramendi, Basque Country University, Spain
Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
Jan Mendling, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Oscar Pastor Lopez, University of Valencia, Spain
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Henderik Proper, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israeli
Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Ernest Teniente, Unversitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Norman Paton, The University of Manchester, UK
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Esperanza Marcos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
Ivan Jureta, University of Namur, Belgium
Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany
Roel Wieringa, University of twente, Netherlands
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Valeria De Antonellis, University of Brescia, Italy
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israeli
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University, USA
Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA
Isabel F. Cruz, University of Illinois, USA
Faiz Currim, University of Arizona, USA
Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA
David W. Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stephen Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
José Palazzo M. De Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Sandeep Purao, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel UNiversity, USA
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
James Terwilliger, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University, USA
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Zhu Zhang, University of Arizona, USA
Huimin Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Julio Cesar Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tokwang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Fred Lochovsky, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
HKSAR
Xiaoling Wang, Fudan university, China
Sang-Goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKSAR
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
James Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Maryam Razavian, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
Felix Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Bernhard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany
Sandro Bimonte, irstea, France
Patrick Marcel, Université François Rabelais Tours, Laboratoire
d'Informatique, France
Zhifeng Bao, University of Singapour, Singapore
Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ada Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
Yi Cai, South China University of Technology, China
Yiping Ke, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore


Sponsors
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City University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A - Journal: special issue N. 15 is now available for free downloading

International Journal on
Interaction Design & Architecture(s) - IxD&A

N. 15 special issue on:

"Exploring the future of Technology Enhanced Education: visions,

practical implementations and impact of glocalities"

(guest editors: Sabine Graf & Alke Martens)

is now available for free downloading:
http://www.scuolaiad.it/IxDEA/
see "ToC" below.

(the previous issue, N. 13-14, on:
HCI@large: Educate to the new frontiers of the Human-Machine Interaction
is also available for free download )

IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access road to its contents with no charge
to the authors

IxD&A Journal, issue N. 15 - ToC

"Envisioning the Transformative Role of IT in Lectures", pp. 7-17
Telmo Zarraonandia, Ignacio Aedo, Paloma Diaz

"Is complexity tameable ? Toward a design for the experience in a
complex world", pp. 18-30
Carlo Giovannella

"Learning the Greek Language via Greeklish", pp. 31-39
Alexandros Karakos, John Papaioannou, Anastasia Georgiadu

"Large multitouch screens to enhance collaboration in the classroom of
the 21st century: an Italian experiment", pp. 40-56
Alessandra Agostini, Elisa Di Biase

"REFF book as a Mode-2 learning platform", pp. 57-67
Luca Simeone, Salvatore Iaconesi, Federico Monaco

"Design and implementation of a low-cost classroom response ystem for a
future classroom in the developing world", pp. 68-84
Imran A. Zualkernan

Regular papers

"Reponsive and Open Learning Environments (ROLE): Requirements, Evaluation and Reflection", 87-101
Effie Lai-Chong Law, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Martin Wolpers, Ralf Klamma, Marcel Bertold, Dietrich Albert

"An exploration on possible correlations among perception and physical
characteristics of EMOVO emotional portrayals", pp. 102-111
Carlo Giovannella, Daniele Floris, Andrea Paoloni

Next issue, N. 16, will be dedicated to

"Horizon 2020: Smart City Learning"

and will include selected contributions presented at Alpine Rendez-Vouz
2013 during the homonymous workshop.
Submission of contributions for this special issue is still open:

Important dates:
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10 march -> deadline for paper submission
10 april -> notification of acceptance/rejection
30 april -> special issue publication

Topic of interest:
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€ Pedagogical approaches, strategies, process and methods best suited
for Smart City Learning
€ Identification of relevant skills and competencies
€ Technological Ecosystems supporting learning in and from the 'Smart
Cities'
€ The "mediator/trigger/supporting" role of technology
€ "Fluxes" relevant to smart city learning
€ Services that can incorporate learning
€ Redefinition and redesign of learning spaces
€ Crowd sourcing and/or redefinition of content formats and functionalities
€ The impact of contextualization, glocalities, identities
€ Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviors,
experience's styles
€ Data security and privacy issues
€ Resilience and possible autopoietical redefinition of Smart City Learning
€ Pilot projects of Smart City Learning
€ Future scenarios of Smart City Learning

Please submit your paper using the IxD&A submission System at:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/idea2010/login.php

Paper (max 14 pages) should be written according to the IxD&A format, see:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7

We also invite submission of original contributions as regular papers
(full, short, position and review papers).
All submissions will be submitted to the standard peer review process.

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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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Seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

RCIS 2013

Seventh IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES in

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Date and Location: 29-31 May, 2013, Paris, FRANCE

Papers submission deadline: January 27, 2013

http://rcis-conf.com/

RCIS 2013 is a conference of RCIS Conference Series and is sponsored by
IEEE France section. This year, RCIS will be co-located with the 31st
French Conference on Information Systems (INFORSID 2013), a prominent
French scientific event sharing with RCIS the interest on the field of
Information Science.



SCOPE AND TOPICS
--------------------------
The Seventh International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN
INFORMATION SCIENCE aims at providing an international forum for
scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of
information science areas to exchange ideas and approaches in this
evolving field. While presenting research findings and state-of-art
solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new
research challenges in these main topics:

- Information System Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Database and Information System Integration
- Data Management
- Information Search and Discovery
- Software Testing
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Web Information Systems
- Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
- Social Computing
- User Centred Approaches
- Decision Information Systems
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Discovery from Data
- Business Process Analysis, Modelling and Design
- Business Applications
- Information Security Risk
- Information and Value Management

Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although
authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are
also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the conference main topics.


CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND BEST PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for
other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at
RCIS 2013. Authors are invited to submit papers in English. Each
submitted paper will have to be associated to one of the four following
categories.

- Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or
significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper
must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results
must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in
later research (12 pages).
- Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate
proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies,
experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The
research method must be sound and appropriate (12 pages).
- Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or
challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories,
or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described
and its context must be given (12 pages).
- Doctoral Papers are papers submitted by doctoral students only and are
related to research work in progress (6 pages).
- Poster papers as well as Demo papers aim to gather researchers in a
forum to showcase their work and obtain feedback on on-going research
from knowledgeable conference attendees (2 pages).

The submission site address
ishttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2013

By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of
them will register to the conference and present the paper. Only papers
that have been presented by their authors during the conference will be
published in IEEE Proceedings.

Authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process
will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IGI),
to appear at the end of 2014 (vol. 5 issue 4).

Since Proceedings will be published with the IEEE Conference
Publications Program through IEEE Xplore digital library, paper
submissions must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format (see
Conference Templates,
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
).
They should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages and be submitted in PDF
format. Please use the IEEE PDF eXpress tool
(http://www.pdf-express.org/) to convert your source file into IEEE
Xplore compliant PDF File or to check if your own PDF file is IEEE
Xplore compliant. IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE
conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs
(Conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves
for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF Check function). The conference ID
for IEEE PDF eXpress tool will be provided soon on the RCIS 2013 web
site. It is important to note that submitting a file to IEEE PDF eXpress
is only for creation of a compliant PDF file, you must still submit your
final paper through online submission.

See How to Use IEEE PDF express athttp://rcis-conf.com/rcis2013/express.php


IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------
- Papers submission deadline: January 27, 2013
- Tutorial proposals submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Posters& Demos submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Doctoral Consortium submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Notification to Authors and Registration Opening: March 18, 2013
- Camera-ready copies for all papers: April 5, 2013
- RCIS'2013 Conference: May 29-31, 2013


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
---------------------
General Chairs
Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
Jean Louis Cavarero, Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Program Chairs
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Selmin Nurcan, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Steering Committee Chairs
Peri Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Andre Flory, INSA de Lyon, France

IEEE Organizational Unit
Francis Rousseaux, IEEE France section
Daniel Pasquet, IEEE France section

IEEE Liaison
Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Tutorial Chairs
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
Corine Cauvet, Universite Aix-Marseille, France

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
Jolita Ralyte, Université de Geneve, Suisse

Posters& Demos Chairs
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit),
CSIC, Spain
Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Publicity Chairs
Sergio Espana, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Erick Stattner, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Proceedings Chairs
Said Assar, Institut TELECOM - Ecole de Management, France

Local Organization Chair
Rebecca Deneckere, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Financial Chair
Carine Souveyet, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

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21st IEEE Intl Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2013)

The IEEE "RE13" Requirements Engineering Conference is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July 15th-19th, 2013.

http://www.re13.org

The whole RE13 team and Julio, Olly, and Mav in their roles as General
Chair, Program Chair, and Industry Chair are writing to encourage you to
contribute a submission to RE13.

In case Rio itself is not incentive enough to get involved, we are planning
some changes to RE13 to continue to build upon the established quality of
the RE Conference series. In addition to the usual Research and Industry
papers, workshops, tutorials, panel sessions etc., we are also seeking
submissions to a special "RE@21" category; a chance to reflect on the
contribution of the RE conference series to both requirements engineering
research and practice as it comes of age with the 21st RE conference.
Furthermore, we have introduced "RE Interactive", which offers new ways for
RE participants to get involved and interact throughout the conference.

Submissions: http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_submithere

*** Workshop proposals (Jan 14) ***
*** Paper abstracts (Jan 21); Full papers (Jan 28) ***
*** Tutorial proposals (intent: Feb 01; full submission: Feb 25) *** (see
below for full list of key dates)

So why not take a few moments to look at the website and the calls and give
serious consideration to making a contribution. Please forward this email to
your colleagues; we are sure everyone would like the chance to go to the
21st RE conference in Rio.

If you have any questions about RE13, do not hesitate to email the
organizing team (http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_contact).

Many thanks,
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, General Chair
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Orlena (Olly) Gotel, Program Chair
Independent Researcher, USA
Alistair Mavin (Mav), Industry Chair
Rolls Royce PLC, UK
and the whole RE13 Team.


RE13 KEY FACTS SHEET

Important Dates in 2013:
January 14th: Workshop Proposals
January 21st: Research, Industry, & RE@21 Abstracts January 28th: Research,
Industry, & RE@21 Full Papers February 01st: Tutorials - Notice of Intent
February 25th: Tutorial Proposals March 04th: Panel & Debate Proposals April
03rd: Doctoral Symposium Submissions April 08th: Poster & Demo Submissions
RE Interactive: Always open to suggestions!
July 15th-19th: RE13 Conference in Rio

Program Committee:
http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_researchcommittee

Industry Committee:
http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_industrycommittee

Organizing Committee:
http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_organizingcommittee

Program Board:
http://www.re13.org/pages/main.php?id=page_programboard

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PhD Openings in Requirements Engineering at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

The Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece announces openings in PhD positions in Informatics with special emphasis on Requirements Engineering.

Requirements engineering (RE) is arguably the most sensitive of all activities involving the development of software or more generally systems in which software plays an integral part.

The environment in which RE is being practiced has changed dramatically in recent years, with software becoming ubiquitous in all walks of life. Examples of this shift of emphasis include the use of smart mobile devices, the move of high-performance computing and data to the “cloud”, the coupling of real-time data via RFID tags to ERP administrative systems, the increasing need or inter-organizational information systems, the rise of the service science movement, etc. Therefore, there is a need to build on existing successes in RE primarily those concerned with notations, tools and methods and to re-think some of the principles underpinning requirements.

In the context of this new focus on research in RE, the Department of Informatics and Telematics www.dit.hua.gr of Harokopio University of Athens, is inviting applications for PhD positions of candidates interested in the field of RE. Candidates with interests in, but not limited to, Conceptual Modeling, Business Process Modeling, Complex Systems and System Dynamics, Architectures and Patterns, Prototyping, Simulation and Animation, Service Oriented Environments, are welcomed to apply.

Candidates should meet the following requirements:

• An excellent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a closely related field.
• A strong formal background, especially in conceptual modeling and knowledge representation.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English.

Interested candidates should send their applications to itsec@hua.gr including:
• Your CV.
• Your transcripts.
• A cover letter describing yourself and your interests
• Soft copy of your publications (e.g. masters thesis, final year project, conference or journal publications).
• Proof of proficiency in English.
• Two Letters of recommendation.

The positions are available with immediate effect.

Interested candidates may informally contact Professor Loucopoulos at p.loucopoulos@hua.gr.

Closing date for applications: 30th October 2012.

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The ROLE Requirements Bazaar reached Beta-Status!

Screenshot of the ROLE Requirements Bazaar

Please take a look around, test its functions and help us improve by reporting issues and/or ideas for improvement. You can do so best by clicking on the "Improve" flag in the top left corner. Thanks!

The general idea of the ROLE Requirements Bazaar is described in our EC-TEL paper and presentation about "The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure". There is another publication "Der Bazaar der Anforderungen - Open Innovation in emergent Communities" (in German) describing the Bazaar from an Open Innovation perspective.

The ideas for the Requirements Bazaar have been developed in the RWTH Achen University ACIS group by Dominik Renzel, Anna Hannemann and me in the CONTICI and the ROLE project. A first prototype was realized by Effie Lai-Chong Law and Arunangsu Chatterjee  from the University of Leicester. The current prototype was realized by our master student Malte Behrendt.

The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure from Ralf Klamma

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The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure - ROLE Presentation at EC-TEL 2012

In the frame of the ROLE project I gave this presentation on "The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure" at the EC-TEL 2012 in Saarbrücken Germany, on September 21, 2012.


  Abstract. In this paper, we first reflect on the limitations of applying traditional requirements engineering (RE) approaches to the development of a large-scale PLE infrastructure, which is precisely the aim of a technology-enhanced learn-ing project called ROLE. The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) ap-proach has been proposed as an appropriate alternative. Early SRE prototypes based on an agent- and goal-oriented conceptual model conceived across a five-staged requirement lifecycle (elicitation, negotiation, selection, development and feedback) were implemented. We report results of preliminary evaluation and lessons learnt. Several relevant issues have been identified, including the lack of a consensual understanding of key concepts, lurking within Community of Practices (CoP), and cultural differences. Possible solutions are proposed to address the issues such as templates, mandatory voting, and prioritization model

The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure from Ralf Klamma

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19th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2013) - Call for Workshop Proposals

CALL FOR WORSHOP PROPOSALS

REFSQ 2013

19th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2013)

April, 8-11th 2013

Essen, Germany

http://refsq.org/2013/

The REFSQ International Working Conference Series is one of the leading international forums in requirements engineering for researchers and practitioners who wish to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges about requirement engineering. This year, REFSQ will support the organization of co-located workshops to better address ground breaking results. If you wish to organize such a REFSQ’13 workshop on a topic related to requirements engineering, you are welcome to send your proposal to the Workshop co-Chairs: Camille Salinesi (camille.salinesi@univ-paris1.fr) and Raúl Mazo (raulmazo@gmail.com)

IMPORTANT DATES

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Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: November 12, 2012

Workshop Notification: November 26, 2012

Conference: April 8-11, 2013

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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All proposals will be evaluated according to relevance, anticipated level of discussion and liveliness of the workshop, the expected number of participants, and the organizer's experience in setting up a successful workshop. 

Each workshop proposal should include:

1. Title (with current version number) of the workshop

2. Name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of the proposer(s)

3. Length of the workshop (full or half day)

4. A statement of the goals for the workshop

5. A brief description of the topic of the workshop plus a short description on how the workshop will be advertised to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and participants

6. A list of workshop topics

7. An outline of the paper submission and selection process (all the workshops should be peer-reviewed)

8. An explanation of any plans for publishing the workshop contributions

9. Expected number of participants

10.A list of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers and website (if any)

Workshop proposals are to be sent by e-mail (in the body of the email and as an attached ASCII file) to the Workshop co-Chairs: Camille Salinesi (camille.salinesi@univ-paris1.fr) and Raúl Mazo (raulmazo@gmail.com)

We look forward to your participation and want to see you in Essen the next year.

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25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13)

Call For Papers - CAISE 2013 

25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13)

http://www.pros.upv.es/index.php/en/home-caise2013

Jun 17, 2013 - Jun 21, 2013, Valencia, Spain

Important Dates

Workshop submission deadline : October 19 2012
Paper submission deadline: November 30 2012
Tutorial submission deadline: December 14 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 17 2013
Conference, Workshops and Related Events: June 17-21 2013

Topics

CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information systems engineering, in particular those in the following list. Four kinds of contributions are accepted: technical papers, empirical evaluation papers, reports of experience, and exploratory papers. This year, the conference will be particularly glad to receive exploratory papers that share visions, novel approaches, or insight into new information systems engineering paradigms.

The CAiSE topics of interests 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 modelling, 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:

eGovernment
Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
Data warehouses and business intelligence
Workflow systems
Knowledge management systems
Content management systems
Sustainability-aware IS
Semantic web

Author Guidelines

Types of contributions:

Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. Atechnical 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 Springer.

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'13 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

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Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'13)

Call for Papers

R E F S Q ' 1 3 - Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

April 8-11 2013, Essen, Germany

Special Theme: Interdisciplinary RE

Abstract Submission: 5th November 2012

Paper Submission: 12th November 2012

http://www.refsq.org

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a dominant factor that influences the quality of software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is well established as one of the leading international forums for discussing RE and its many relations to quality. The first REFSQ took place in 1994, and since 2010 REFSQ has been organised as a stand-alone conference. In April 2013, we again welcome participants to attend REFSQ'13, which will be held in Essen, Germany.


Working Conference Format

REFSQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive forum. Each session is organised in order to provoke discussion among the presenters of papers, pre-assigned discussants, and all the other
participants.


Scope

REFSQ 2013 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE's products and processes, as well as reflections on current research and industrial RE practices. We invite submissions on any aspect of RE. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, service science, and embedded systems fields to present original work. We have chosen "Interdisciplinary RE" as the special theme for REFSQ'13. In addition to general papers on RE and
quality, we therefore encourage submissions that highlight the interplay of RE with related disciplines such as software architecture, quality assurance, user interface design, project management, and agile software
development. Contributions from further related areas such as systems engineering, economics, and management are also very welcome for the insights they provide to RE.


Call for Papers

We invite original submissions in various categories:
- Full research papers (up to 15 pages), including solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies
- Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing positive and negative experiences
- Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating where the research in the field should be heading towards
- Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of practical or theoretical nature
- Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting research results at an early stage

Papers must be submitted through Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq13


Other Events

REFSQ 2013 also calls for submissions for:
- Half-day workshops focussing on topics related to REFSQ
- A doctoral symposium in which PhD students present their RE-related research
- Empirical studies to be run during REFSQ and in collaboration with companies


Important dates

Abstract Submission: 5th November 2012
Paper Submission: 12th November 2012
Conference: 8-11 April 2013


General Chair

Klaus Pohl – Univ. of Duisburg Essen, Germany


Program Co-Chairs

Joerg Doerr – Fraunhofer IESE, Germany <joerg.doerr@iese.fraunhofer.de>
Andreas L. Opdahl – Univ. of Bergen, Norway <Andreas.Opdahl@uib.no>


Empirical Track Co-Chairs

Daniel M. Berry – Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Norbert Seyff – Univ. of Zurich,
Switzerland


Workshop Chairs

Raul Mazo – Univ. of Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France Camille Salinesi – Univ. of
Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France


Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs

Oscar Pastor – Univ. of Valencia, Spain
Roel Wieringa – Univ. of Twente, Netherlands


Industry Track Co-Chairs

Kai Petersen – Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Thorsten Weyer –
Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany


Programme Committee

Aybuke Aurum, University of New South Wales Brian Berenbach, Siemens
Corporate Research Dan Berry, University of Waterloo Sjaak Brinkkemper,
Utrecht University David Callele, University of Saskatchewan Jane
Cleland-Huang, DePaul University Daniela Damian, University of Victoria Eric
Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor Armin Eberlein, American University of Sharjah
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Samuel Fricker, Blekinge
Institute of Technology Donald Gause, Binghamton University Vincenzo
Gervasi, University of Pisa Martin Glinz, University of Zurich Tony
Gorschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology Olly Gotel, Independent
Researcher Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz Peter Haumer,
IBM Rational Patrick Heymans, University of Namur Matthias Jarke, RWTH
Aachen University Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Erik
Kamsties, Univ. of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund Peter Karpati,
Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology Marjo Kauppinen, Helsinki
University of Technology Eric Knauss, University of Victoria Kim Lauenroth,
adesso AG Soren Lauesen, IT University of Copenhagen Pericles Loucopoulos,
Loughborough University Nazim Madhavji, University of Western Ontario
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu Raul Mazo, University of Paris 1
- Sorbonne John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto Cornelius Ncube,
Bournemouth University Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University Barbara Paech,
Universität Heidelberg Oscar Pastor Lopez, Polytechnical University of
Valencia Anne Persson, University of Skövde Kai Petersen, Blekinge Institute
of Technology Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva Gil Regev, Ecole Polyt.
Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland Bjorn Regnell, Lund University Colette
Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne Camille Salinesi, University of
Paris 1 - Sorbonne Kristian Sandahl, Linköping University Pete Sawyer,
Lancaster University Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universität Hannover Norbert
Seyff, University of Zurich Guttorm Sindre, Norwegian Univ. of Science and
Technology Janis Stirna, Royal Institute of Technology Christer Thörn,
Jönköping University Inge Van De Weerd, VU University Amsterdam Thorsten
Weyer, University of Duisburg-Essen Roel Wieringa, University of Twente Eric
Yu, University of Toronto Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Sydney

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