1st International Workshop on Empirical Research in Process-oriented Information Systems

To be held 8 June 2010 in conjunction with CAiSE 2010 in Hammamet, Tunesia

Official website: www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/erpois2010

I. Workshop Theme and Goals

Since the advent of business process reengineering in the 1990s,  modeling and optimization of business processes has become a critical factor in business as well as in non-profit and government organizations. Today, with many forms of interorganizational cooperation in the form of e-business, outsourcing, and other kinds of value webs, business process management and coordination process management are crucial for the survival of organizations. As a result, information systems are required to manipulate not only data but also processes. Process-oriented information systems (POIS) are systems that can provide data support as well as process support to organizations. Examples are workflow management systems, ERP systems, and systems for cross-organizational coordination management.

Some of the challenges facing POIS include requirements management, performance monitoring, service level agreements and governance. The 1st International Workshop on  Empirical Research in Process-Oriented Information Systems (ER-POIS 2010) aims to provide a platform for exchanging empirical research results about POIS problems and solutions.

The workshop takes an empirical perspective, which means that we will not solicit papers that propose solutions, new techniques or methods, but solicit papers with empirical research results about existing problems or implemented solutions, or about empirical validations of proposed solutions. We assume the solutions have been specified elsewhere, possibly in earlier papers.

We encourage the use of any research method, ranging from experimental research to surveys, case studies and action research, provided that a discussion of the validity of the method and of the results obtained with the method is included in the paper.

II. Workshop Format

The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers and tool reports. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, and will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and shall particularly address the relation to transferring methods and technologies into practice.

Accepted papers will appear in the joint CAiSE workshop proceedings which will be distributed in the electronic library CEUR http://ceur-ws.org (and on USB sticks at CAiSE). The proceedings will have an ISSN number and will be accessible for everyone on the CEUR website. The authors will keep the copyright of their papers. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.

III. Submitting a Paper

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed in the Topics section. Only papers in English will be accepted. Different paper types are distinguished. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (there is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the Springer LNCS format.

Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (full paper | position paper | tool report).

Papers should be submitted in PDF format electronically via the EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erpois2010

IV. Topics

Topics include but are not limited to…

  • Requirements engineering for POIS
  • Cost and benefit estimation for POIS
  • Risk management of POIS
  • Quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for POIS
  • Evaluation of development methods for POIS
  • Cross-organizational POIS
  • POIS implementation
  • COTS and POIS
  • User acceptance of POIS
  • Role of POIS in business-IT alignment
  • Strategic issue of POIS
  • Governance of POIS
  • Enterprise architecture and POIS
  • Adoption and success of POIS

V. Journal Publication

Top papers will be considered (after extension and enhancement) for publication in the Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. Reviewing for the special issue will be done by the same reviewers who reviewed the earlier workshop paper.

VI. Organizers & Program Committee

Workshop Chairs & Organizers:

Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany, Email: bela.mutschler@hs-weingarten.de

Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Email: j.recker@qut.edu.au

Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Email: roelw@cs.utwente.nl

Program Committee:

  • Richard Baskerville, USA
  • Sjaak Brinkkemper, The Netherlands
  • Eric Dubois, Luxemburg
  • Marta Indulska, Australia
  • Matthias Jarke, Germany
  • Pontus Johnson, Sweden
  • Kalle Lyytinen, USA
  • Jan Mendling, Germany
  • Bela Mutschler, Germany (Co-chair)
  • Andreas Opdahl, Norway
  • Jinsoo Park, Korea
  • Oscar Pastor, Spain
  • Yves Peigneur, Switzerland
  • Jan Recker, Australia (Co-chair)
  • Manfred Reichert, Germany
  • Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
  • Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Austria
  • Matti Rossi, Finland
  • Marcus Rothenberger, USA
  • Camille Salinesi, France
  • Keng Siau, USA
  • Roel Wieringa, The Netherlands (Co-chair)
  • Barbara Weber, Austria

VII. Important Dates

  • Deadline for paper submissions: 28 February 2010
  • Notification of Acceptance: 30 March 2010
  • Camera-ready papers deadline: 15 April 2010
  • Workshop: 8 June 2010

VIII. Official website

http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/erpois2010/