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CALL FOR PAPERS

IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering - ME'11

Engineering Methods in the Service-Oriented Context

20 - 22 April 2011, Paris, France

http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/ME11/

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Engineering methods, techniques and tools for the analysis, design and evolution of Information Systems is one of the main IFIP WG 8.1 research areas. Successful Working Conferences have been organized on this topic in Atlanta in 1996, in Kanazawa in 2002 and in Geneva in 2007. The new edition of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering aims to create a dedicated forum where researchers and practitioners will overview the evolution of the field, exchange research ideas and results and discuss the future perspectives. The conference will be held in the beautiful city of Paris in France. The conference program will feature invited talks, paper presentations, interactive panel sessions and tutorials. The format of a working conference provides the participants an opportunity to have extensive and interactive paper discussions featured by discussant reviews in plenary sessions.?

THEME

Over the last two decades the discipline of Method Engineering has evolved from simple Ad-Hoc method construction to Situational and Domain-Specific Method Engineering approaches as a response to the increasing complexity and diversity of information systems developments. Nowadays, the evolution of enterprise software and information systems towards service-oriented architectures again asks for new ways of working, thinking and designing systems that we could call now service-oriented systems. New methods, techniques and tools based on the concept of service and better fitting the current development situations are under development and experimentation and are the main topic of this conference. Besides, the notion of service is also emerging in the domain of Method Engineering as a new type of method building block and therefore becomes a new fundamental concept of the discipline.

TOPICS

Research topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to the following :

Fundamentals of Method Engineering:

* Service-Oriented Method Engineering
* Method as a Service (MaaS)
* Meta-modelling and method ontologies for services
* Situational method engineering
* Situation factors and suitability
* Method adaptation, configuration and extension for service-oriented development
* Method simulation and enactment

Methods and Tools for Specific Domains:

* Service design
* Service-oriented IS development
* Web-IS engineering
* Requirements engineering
* E-business applications
* Web-applications and web services
* Software architecture
* Model-driven architecture (MDA)
* Agent information systems
* Product software
* IS evolution
* Business process engineering and improvement
* Enterprise architecture
* Knowledge engineering and management
* Organizational engineering
* Mobile systems

Method Evaluation and Experiences:

* Experience reports on method engineering
* Method comparison
* Best practice guides
* Case studies
* Surveys of method usage

Supportive tools:
* Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME)
* MaaS engineering
* Method knowledge infrastructures
* Computer aided software engineering (CASE)
* MetaCASE

PAPER TYPES

The Program Committee solicits original contributions in four categories:

Research papers (max 15 pages) should describe original research contribution to the field of Method Engineering (ME) related to the Service-Oriented Context. A research paper should clearly describe the problem tackled, the state of the art with respect to the problem, the solution suggested and the potential - or even better the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.

Practice reports (max 15 pages) including case studies, experience reports and problem statements in the domain of Method Engineering in the Service-Oriented Context. People from industry are especially encouraged to submit problem statements and experience reports, which may address mismatches between current ME practice and research.

Position papers (max 6 pages) should state the author?s research position with respect to current Method Engineering practice, relations between current ME practice and ME research, and/or research methodology and ontological assumptions. Papers should emphasise topics that are particularly important within ME the Service-Oriented Context at present.

Posters and tool demonstrations (max 4 pages) should present results of innovative projects and prototypes as well as promising new approaches as short papers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions should follow the Springer IFIP series format (see http://www.springer.com/series/6102 for instructions). Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format using the paper submission tool available at the conference web site. All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to the conference theme. The accepted contributions will be included in the proceedings published by the IFIP publisher Springer.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 15 October 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2010
Camera ready copy due: 20 December 2010
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Program Chair
Isabelle Mirbel, University of Nice, France

Organising Chair
Rebecca Deneckere, University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jacky AKOKA, France
David AVISON, France
Marko BAJEC, Slovenia
Sjaak BRINKKEMPER, The Netherlands
Albertas CAPLINSKAS, Lithuania
Corine CAUVET, France
Massimo COSSENTINO, Italy
Donald FIRESMITH, USA
Xavier FRANCH, Spain
Cesar GONZALEZ-PEREZ, Spain
John GRUNDY, Australia
Remigijus GUSTAS, Sweden
Frank HARMSEN, The Netherlands
Peter HAUMER, USA
Brian HENDERSON-SELLERS, Australia
Charlotte HUG, France
Manfred JEUSFELD, The Netherlands
Paul JOHANNESSON, Sweden
Frederik KARLSSON, Sweden
Steven KELLY, Finland
John KROGSTIE, Norway
Susanne LEIST, Germany
Michel LEONARD, Switzerland
Mauri LEPPANEN, Finland
Pericles LOUCOPOULOS; UK
Kalle LYYTINEN, USA
Haralambos MOURATIDIS, UK
Mohan NARASIPURAM, Hong Kong
Leon J. OSTERWEIL, USA
Oscar PASTOR, Spain
Juan PAVON, Spain
Anne PERSSON, Sweden
Yves PIGNEUR, Switzerland
Naveen PRAKASH, India
Erik PROPER, The Netherlands
Iris REINHARTZ BERGER, Israel
Dominique RIEU, France
Colette ROLLAND, France
Matti ROSSI, Finland
Motoshi SAEKI, Japan
Guttorm SINDRE, Norway
Juha-Pekka TOLVANEN, Finland
Inge VAN DE WEERD, The Netherlands
Robert WINTER, Switzerland
Bostjan ZVANUT, Slovenia