CAiSE’11 invites papers that address all these challenges. We also specifically encourage submissions that address diversity issues, either in terms of the information systems, the development team or the information systems users. The topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:
Methodologies and Approaches for IS Engineering:
- Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling;
- Knowledge patterns and ontologies for IS engineering;
- Requirements engineering;
- Methodologies and Languages for Secure IS
- Business process modelling and management;
- IS engineering approaches for adaptive and flexible information systems;
- Simulation;
- IS in networked & virtual organizations;
- Model, component, and software reuse;
- Method engineering;
- IS reengineering;
- Quality of models and of modelling languages;
- Adaptive IS engineering approaches;
- Usability, trust, flexibility, interoperability;
- Knowledge, information, and data quality
Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS engineering:
- Service-oriented architectures;
- Innovative database technology;
- Model-driven architectures;
- Semantic web;
- Component based development;
- IS and ubiquitous technologies;
- Software Agents architectures;
- Adaptive and context-aware IS;
- Distributed, mobile, and open architectures;
Engineering of specific kinds of IS:
- eGovernment;
- Enterprise systems (ERP, CRM);
- Data warehousing;
- Workflow systems;
- Knowledge management systems;
- Content management systems;
Emerging Areas of IS:
- IS & Digital Ecologies
- IS & Smart Buildings;
- IS & Digital Devices
- IS & their Economies
Author Guidelines 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 and Publication
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. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’11 and published in the conference proceedings, which are published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A small selection of best papers will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of Information Systems (latest impact factor: 1.966) dedicated to this conference. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the conference and attend the conference to present the paper.