Call for papers

Submission will soon be open

Important dates:

• 30 June 2008, paper submission deadline
• 15 August 2008 notification of acceptance
• 12-13, November 2008, Conference

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Evaluation of EM methods from a practice perspective
• The process of modeling and guidelines for modeling 
• Management of EM projects
• Use of EM in different contexts
• Facilitation and group dynamics 
• The competency of modelers and modeling teams
• Model and process quality aspects 
• Reuse of enterprise models
• Modeling languages
• The use of EM in different contexts
• Tools and workbenches
• Enterprise model management
• Success factors in EM
• Teaching the practice
• EM and agile development
• Enterprise knowledge architectures
• Standardization issues and reference models
• Method engineering in EM
• Concordance between EM and information systems development

Paper types:

• Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practices. 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.
• Research papers describe original research contributions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) to the area of EM. A research paper should clearly describe the situation or problem that is tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential or the evaluated benefits of the contribution.
• Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means. 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.
• Idea papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation that arises because of, for instance, new methods and tools or new types of emerging EM challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate the shortcomings of the current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, meta-models, etc.

Submission guidelines:

• Papers should be submitted in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding 15 pages will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0. Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.
• Review Process. At least three members of the program committee will review each submission. The program committee will meet to review and make final decisions. Accepted papers will be presented at PoEM’08 and published in the conference proceedings.
• Publication. The conference proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) http://www.springer.com/series/7911.