[Dbworld] CFP: Organizational Engineering Track at ACM SAC 2005

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C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S

Special Track on ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING

ACM SAC 2005

The 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing,
13-17 March 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

http://ceo.inesc.pt/sac2005/

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission: September 3, 2004
Author notification: October 15, 2004
Camera-ready copy: November 5, 2004
ACM SAC 2005: March 13-17, 2005

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THE ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING TRACK

For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
been a primary gathering forum computer scientists, computer engineers,
software engineers, and developers from around the world. ACM SAC is
solely sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
(SIGAPP). The 20th Annual SAC (SAC 2005) will be held 13-17 March, 2005
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and hosted by the New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology.

Organizational engineering aggregates multi-disciplinary concepts,
methods and technology to model, develop and analyze various aspects of
changing organizations. One of its major concerns is to understand the
relationships between business strategy, business processes and the
business support systems in order to create and keep the alignment
between these complementary domains.

The second edition of the Organizational Engineering (OE) track at ACM
SAC will provide a place for theoretical and applied research studies to
be presented and discussed. It also gives an opportunity for
researchers, academics and practitioners interested in organizational
modeling, analysis, methodologies and supporting tools to share and
discuss problems, open issues and ideas.

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TOPICS

Papers submitted to the OE track should focus on the following topics
with research results, case studies or description of technological
solutions.

I - Organizational Models and Methodologies

- Organizational modeling (including business models and business
strategies, business processes, people, support systems).

- Methodologies and conceptual frameworks for analyzing, creating and
maintaining the alignment between organizational concepts.

- Process patterns.

- "As-is" and "to-be" modeling, continuous update and evolution.

- Method engineering.

- Conceptual modeling (including model analysis, verification and
validation, notations and formal models).

- Business networking (intra and inter-organizational collaborations and
contracts).

- Enterprise ontologies.

- Enterprise architecture.

II - Business Support Systems, Tools and Technology

- Frameworks and tools for the deployment, execution, simulation,
assessment and performance analysis of organizational models.

- Service architecture, composition and supporting technologies
(including enterprise application integration, business collaboration).

- Software development, evolution, testing and configuration for keeping
business processes and the support systems aligned.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

All submitted papers must represent previously unpublished work.
Accepted papers will be published in the yearly ACM SAC proceedings and
made available through ACM's Digital Library. The ACM SAC is a refereed
conference. This means each paper will be blindly reviewed by a minimum
of three international referees. Papers will be evaluated according to
their significance, originality, technical content, style and clarity.
Note that in last year's edition, the acceptance rate was around 35%.

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via the online
track management system at http://ceo.inesc.pt/sac2005/ We encourage
authors to use the ACM SIG two-column template while preparing the
paper. To submit the document, authors are required to first register
into the OE site and provide contact details. Please do not hesitate
contacting us via e-mail for any questions or problems.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

-The paper should not exceed 4,000 words when submitted. The final
version must fit within five (5) pages using the two-column ACM SIG
template. Authors have the option to add up to three (3) more pages to
the paper at additional expense.

- The paper must be formatted using the two-column ACM SIG format.

- All papers submissions must be made electronically in PDF format using
the online system available at http://ceo.inesc.pt/sac2005/

- To facilitate the blind review process, the authors names should not
appear anywhere in the paper and self-references should be made in the
third person.

- Quality papers that are not accepted due to space limitations will be
invited for the poster session. Posters will be included in the printed
proceedings as extended abstracts.

- Any enquiries should be directed to the Track Chairs via e-mai to
sac-oe-bqZEUaylcM5mbKjIMt4/9w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Additional information is 
available at the OE track
page at http://ceo.inesc.pt/sac2005/ and at the ACM SAC 2005 conference
page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005/

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CONTACTS

e-mail: sac-oe-bqZEUaylcM7and0/wzY53w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www: http://ceo.inesc.pt/sac2005/

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TRACK CHAIRS

Jose Tribolet
IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Robert Winter
Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Artur Caetano
IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

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