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*** Technical track on Enterprise Information Systems - EIS 2009

*** The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – SAC 2009 
*** March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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*** http://www.mb.utwente.nl/iscm/news/eis_sac_2009/
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ACM SAC 


For the past twenty-three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and hosted by University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. SAC proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM and are also available on the web through the ACM Digital Library. 

      
EIS TRACK  


Enterprise Information Systems are those intended to support business in the contemporary knowledge-based global economy. Therefore, developing and deploying these systems means to deal with complex and cross-disciplinary enterprise integration issues. EIS area embraces a plethora of subjects that range from Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence. This track complements other SAC tracks such as Organizational Engineering, Document Engineering, Databases, Data Mining and e-Commerce, by stressing technology and business integration issues.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
 

The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:
- Techniques for ERP, CRM, and ECM modeling, development and deployment,
- Applied Business Intelligence,
- Business Process Management, 
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Service-Oriented Architectures,
- Interoperability of Enterprise Applications,
- Integration of EIS and e-Business,
- Trust, security, and privacy issues in enterprise computing,
- Applications and case studies on EIS development, deployment and management.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
 

Papers must present unpublished original research on the above-mentioned or other related topics, not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers can be submitted in electronic format using the eCMS web submission system before August, 16th, 2008. Please note that the submission deadline is strict. 

Submissions must be formatted according to the conference template, and their size should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages (according to that template). However, please note that only the first 5 pages are free of charge. For any extra page authors will be charged 80USD per page.

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is necessary in order to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. 

Three members of the program committee will review each submission. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the symposium and present the paper in the EIS track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference ACM proceedings. A set of selected papers submitted to the EIS track and not accepted as full papers will be accepted as posters and published in the ACM proceedings as 2-page papers. 
      

IMPORTANT DATES 


Paper submissions:      Aug. 16, 2008 (**strict**)
Author notification: 	Oct. 11, 2008 
Camera-Ready Copy:      Oct. 25, 2008


SAC & EIS WEBSITES 


ACM SAC 2009: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/ 
EIS Track:    http://www.mb.utwente.nl/iscm/news/eis_sac_2009/ 


TRACK CHAIRS


Assist. Prof. Maria-Eugenia Iacob
Department of Information Systems and Change Management
School of Management and Governance
University of Twente, Netherlands
http://www.mb.utwente.nl/iscm/staff/academic/Iacob/ 

Prof. Rogerio Atem de Carvalho
CEFET Campos, Brazil
Chair of the IFIP WG8.9 – EIS, Brazilian Chapter
http://www.cefetcampos.br/epex/dppg/nucleos-pesquisa/nsi/ratem

Prof. Asterio Kiyoshi Tanaka
UniRio, Brazil
Deputy Chair of the IFIP WG8.9 – EIS, Brazilian Chapter
http://www.uniriotec.br/~tanaka/


PROGRAM COMMITTEE


João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
João Soares de Oliveira Neto, Mackenzie Presbiterian University, Brazil
Sohail S. Chaudhry, Villanova University, USA
Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark
Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Helder Gomes Costa, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, USA
Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Ltd, Australia
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR Institute and University of Calabria, Italy
Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Li Xu, Old Dominium University, USA
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dick Quartel, Telematica Instituut, Netherlands
Manfred Reichert, Univerisity of Ulm, Germany
Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinky, Finland
Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, Netherlands