ICEIS 2010 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Co-chairs

Aurona Gerber
Knowledge Systems Group, Meraka Institute, CSIR
South Africa
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Knut Hinkelmann
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Switzerland
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Paula Kotzé
Human Factors and Enterprise Engineering Group, Meraka Institute, CSIR
South Africa
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Ulrich Reimer
Institute for Information and Process Management, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen
Switzerland
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Alta Van der Merwe
Human Factors and Enterprise Engineering Group, Meraka Institute, CSIR
South Africa
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Background and Goals

Enterprise Architecture (EA) remains high on the agenda of both business and government. The advancement of EA has been rapid, despite being highly complex and multidimensional. Although there are many reports on success, there is still much confusion within both the practitioner and scientific communities with regards to issues such as adoption, integration, governance and alignment. The academic and research communities therefore need to actively participate in the establishment of foundations for EA, to enable this dynamic field will to fulfil its promises.

The goal of this workshop is to establish a basis for presenting fundamental and applied research on EA, and also to provide researchers, academics and practitioners with a platform for discussions and publishing in this field.

We invite participants to contribute to establishing a research foundation for EA in general, and also enterprise repositories, in particular. The latter is important because storing and maintaining the huge volume of architectural output in is major challenge for EA.

Topics of interest

We are inviting papers that fall within the scope of the workshop as described above. We are especially interested in papers addressing one or more of the following topics:

General topics:

EA and enterprise engineering
EA repositories
EA frameworks
Theory and practice in EA
EA methodologies and tools

Other topics may include, but are not limited to:

Evolution of EA
Architectures and design principles for repositories
Modelling including strategy modelling, business modelling, application modelling, data modelling, technological infra-structure modelling
Model analysis, verification and validation
Specification of views, viewpoints and layers
Notations, languages and standards for organizational engineering
Ontologies in enterprise engineering
EA reference models, meta-models and frameworks
Business process management, including business process mining and clustering, business process patterns, process orchestration and coordination
Vertical alignment between strategy, business, support systems and technology
Integration: enterprise, business and enterprise application integration
EA and e-government, organizational theory, system development
Maturity models for EA artefacts and processes
Measurements, metrics, analysis, and evaluation of EA artefacts and processes
EA and service oriented architecture (SOA)
Integration of service-oriented and legacy architectures
Case studies for EA including adoption, governance, alignment and integration, managing complexity

Workshop Program Committee

Reinhardt A. Botha, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Jason Cohen, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Machdel Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Irina Neaga, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Hanlie Smuts, University of South Africa, South Africa
Rainer Telesko, FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Barbara Thönssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
Holger Wache, FHNW, Switzerland
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management, Austria
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.