CALL FOR PAPERS CAiSE'09 Amsterdam, The Netherlands The 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'09) 8-12 June 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://caise09.thenetworkinstitute.eu/ Information Systems for Business Innovation: The Next Wave This year's special theme is "Information Systems for Business Innovation". Due to the widespread use of the web, businesses innovate their propositions to customers and come up with new ICT- enabled services. Such innovation requires understanding of the business and of technology in an integrated way. Multi-disciplinary research areas such as Service Science, Networked Enterprises, and Social Networking are paying attention to ICT and business innovation. The special events and invited speakers of CAiSE '09 will shed light on this theme from various perspectives. Goal: CAiSE'09 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering. CAiSE'09 invites submissions on the development, maintenance, and usage of information systems - and especially submissions dealing with information systems for business innovation. The topics of interests include, but are not restricted to: Methodologies and approaches for IS engineering - Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling - Requirements engineering - Business process modelling and management - Simulation - Agile methods - Model, component, and software reuse - IS reengineering - Adaptive IS engineering approaches - Service science - Knowledge patterns and ontologies for IS engineering - IS in networked & virtual organizations Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS engineering - 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 Engineering of specific kinds of IS: - eGovernment - Enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, CRM) - Data warehousing - Workflow systems - Knowledge management systems - Content management systems Quality concerns in IS engineering - Knowledge, information, and data quality - Quality of models and their languages - Usability, security, trust, flexibility, interoperability Important Dates: 12 October 2008: Tutorials & workshops submission deadline Nov 30, 2008: Paper submission deadline Feb 8, 2009: Notification of acceptance Jun 8-12, 2009: Conference & workshops Types of contributions: we invite four types of original and scientific papers: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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 characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. Publication: Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'09 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Advisory Committee Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Janis Bubenko Jr , Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France General Chair Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands Program Chair Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Workshop & Tutorial Co-Chairs Paul Johannesson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Forum Chair Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Industrial Event and Exhibition Co-Chairs Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Bas van der Raadt, CapGemini, The Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs Hans Weigand, Univerisity of Tilburg, The Netherlands Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Organisation and Finance Chair Hans Akkermans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sponsorship Chair Ellen Schulten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publicity Chair Richard Starmans, SIKS & University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Publication Chair Pascal van Eck, Universiteit of Twente, The Netherlands Local Arrangements Elly Lammers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Website Vincent Pijpers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Program Board Hans Akkermans, NL Sjaak Brinkkemper, NL Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Johann Eder, Austria Pericles Loucopoulos, UK Andreas Opdahl, Norway Oscar Pastor Lopez, Spain Barbara Pernici, Italy Anne Persson, Sweden Klaus Pohl, Germany Colette Rolland, France Pnina Soffer, Israel Program Committee Wil van der Aalst (The Netherlands) Par Agerfalk (Sweden) Jacky Akoka (France) Marco Bajec (Slovenia) Luciano Baresi (Italy) Zorah Bellahsene (France) Boalem Benatallah (Australia) Giuseppe Berio (Italy) Claudio Bettini (Italy) Nacer Boudjlida (France) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (France) Fabio Casati (Italy) Silvana Castano (Italy) Jaelson Castro (Brazil) Corinne Cauvet (France) Joao Falcaoe Cunha (Portugal) Marlon Dumas (Estonia) Joerg Evermann (Canada) Xavier Franch (Spain) Paolo Giorgini (Italy) Claude Godart (France) Mohand-Said Hacid (France) Terry Halpin (USA) Brian Henderson-Sellers (Australia) Patrick Heymans (Belgium) Matthias Jarke (Germany) Manfred Jeusfeld (The Netherlands) Paul Johannesson (Sweden) Henk Jonkers (The Netherlands) Havard Jorgensen (Norway) Roland Kaschek (New Zealand) Marite Kirkova (Latvia) John Krogstie (Norway) Patricia Lago (The Netherlands) Regina Laleau (France) Marc Lankhorst (The Netherlands) Wilfried Lemahieu (Belgium) Michel Leonard (Switzerland) Kalle Lyytinen (USA) Isabelle Mirbel (France) Haris Mouratidis (UK) John Mylopoulos (Canada) Moira Norrie (Switzerland) Andreas Oberweis (Germany) Antoni Olive (Spain) Barbara Paech (Germany) Herve Panetto (France) Jeffrey Parsons (Canada) Michael Petit (Belgium) Yves Pigneur (Switzerland) Geert Poels (Belgium) Erik Proper (The Netherlands) Jolita Ralyte (Switzerland) Bjorn Regnell (Sweden) Manfred Reichert (Germany) Mart Roantree (Ireland) Michael Rosemann (Australia) Gustavo Rossi (Argentina) Matti Rossi (Finland) Motoshi Saeki (Japan) Camille Salinesi (France) Tony C. Shan (USA) Keng Siau (USA) Guttorm Sindre (Norway) Monique Snoeck (Belgium) Janis Stirna (Sweden) Arnon Sturm (Israel) Alistair Sutcliffe (UK) Stefan Tai (USA) David Taniar (Australia) Bernhard Thalheim (Germany) Farouk Toumani (France) Olga de Troyer (Belgium) Aphrodite Tsalgatidou (Greece) Jean Vanderdonckt (Belgium) Olegas Vasilecas (Lithuania) Yair Wand (Canada) Mathias Weske (Germany) Hans Weigand (The Netherlands) Roel Wieringa (The Netherlands) Carson Woo (Canada) Eric Yu (Canada) Konstantinos Zachos (UK) Didar Zowghi (Australia)