[ecoop-info] CfP: Int Workshop CoBI co-located with IEEE CBI Conference, 14th July, in Lisbon

[Jelena Zdravkovic]

CoBI – 2nd International Workshop on 
Capability-oriented Business Informatics 
(Workshop site: http://cobi2015.blogs.dsv.su.se)
in association with the 17th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics
(IEEE CBI 2015 – http://cbi2015.inesc.pt/)

Key Dates:
Submission deadline: 30th May 2015
Notification to authors: 15th June 2015
CRC copy submission: 20th June 2015 
The Workshop: 14th July 2015

Workshop Call
The business environments of today are changing rapidly, entailing complex and dynamic organisational constellations. Enterprises operating in these conditions need to have the capability to deliver their services in a variety of business contexts with sustainable quality and moreover to leverage them to competitive advantage. 
We encourage the original research contributions exploring the challenges and solutions related to the meaning and usage of capability in Business Informatics, as well as industrial case studies illustrating the use of this notion. The topics are among but not limited to:

* The role of capability-based modeling for improving Enterprise Modeling
* Capability driven-based methods for Business Process Engineering
* Capabilities for service innovation
* Capability-driven service composition
* Capability-driven cloud management
* Technology support for capability-based tools in Business IT
* The effects of capability on organizational transformation
* Management issues related to capability
* Transferring capability knowledge from other domains to IS engineering
* Case studies in capability use

Organization
CoBI 2015 is the one-day workshop organized in conjunction with the 17th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics  in Lisbon, Portugal.


Organization Chairs
Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)
Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Jelena Zdravkovic (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Paper Submissions
All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/series/7911). The page limit is 12 pages. Papers have to be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2015).
Accepted papers will be published in the CoBI Workshop Proceedings, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series. At least one author of an accepted paper should register for the conference and present the paper.
Authors of the best 3 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for consideration by the Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ).

PC Committee 
Yamine Ait Ameur, France
Raian Ali, UK
Carlos Cetina, Spain
Eng Chew, Australia
Sergio Espana, Spain
Wided Guedria, Luxemburgo
Giovanni Giachetti, Chile
Janis Grabis, Latvia
Tharaka Ilayperuma, Sri Lanka
Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria
Ron Kennet, Italia
Christian Kop, Austria
Dmitry Kudryavtsev, Russia
Kale Lyytinen, USA
Raimundas Matulevicius, Estonia
Beatriz Marin, Chile
Ana Moreira, Portugal
Manuel Noguera, Spain
Gustaf-Juel Skielse, Sweden
Erik Perjons, Sweden
Hendrik Proper, Luxembourg
Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany
Janis Stirna, Sweden
Francisco Valverde, Spain
Liping Zhao, UK