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<div dir="ltr"><div>CoBI – IEEE International Workshop on </div><div>Capability-oriented Business Informatics </div><div>(Workshop site: <a href="http://cobi2014.blogs.dsv.su.se/" target="_blank">http://cobi2014.blogs.dsv.su.se</a>)</div>
<div>in association with the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics</div><div>(IEEE CBI 2014 – <a href="http://cbi2014.unige.ch/" target="_blank">http://cbi2014.unige.ch/</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Call</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>Capability is gaining presence in the context of business-IT alignment, in the specification and design of services using business planning as the baseline, in Enterprise Architecture, and in Service Oriented Architecture. However, the knowledge, role and the usage of enterprise capabilities in the named disciplines in terms of people competencies and the capacity of the resources, are unclear and open to different interpretations. How to utilize “capability” knowledge in enterprise modelling and architectures as a foundation for sustainable Information System planning and management in the presence of varying social and business contexts is likely to yield substantial results in both research and practice in years to come.</div>
<div>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:</div>
<div><br></div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The role of capability-based modeling for improving Enterprise Modeling</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Capability driven-based methods for Business Process Engineering</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Capabilities for service innovation</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Capability-driven service composition</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Capability-driven cloud management</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Technology support for capability-based tools in Business IT</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The effects of capability on organizational transformation</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Management issues related to capability</div><div>•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Transferring capability knowledge from other domains to IS engineering</div><div>
•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Case studies in capability use</div><div><br></div><div>Organization</div><div>CoBI 2014 is the one-day workshop organized in conjunction with the 16th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics in Geneva, Switzerland.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organization Chairs</div><div>Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)</div><div>Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)</div><div>Jelena Zdravkovic (Stockholm University, Sweden)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Paper Submissions</div><div>All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format (<a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/series/7911</a>). The page limit is 12 pages. Papers have to be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2014</a>).</div>
<div>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.</div><div>Authors of the best 3 papers will be invited to submit an extended version for consideration by the Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ).</div>
<div>Key Dates:</div><div>Submission deadline: 10th May 2014</div><div>Notification to authors: 1st June 2014</div><div>CRC copy submission: 20th June 2014 </div><div>The Workshop: 14th July 2014</div><div>PC Committee </div>
<div>Yamine Ait Ameur, France</div><div>Reem Bahgat, Egypt</div><div>Marko Bajec, Slovenia</div><div>Carlos Cetina, Spain</div><div>Ying Chen, USA</div><div>Eng Chew, Australia</div><div>Sergio Espana, Spain</div><div>Hugo Estrada, Mexico</div>
<div>Brian Fitzgerald, Ireland</div><div>Ulrich Frank, Germany</div><div>Xavier Franch, Spain</div><div>Paolo Giorgini, Italy</div><div>Giancarlo Guizzardi, Italy</div><div>Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Netherlands</div><div>Janis Grabis, Latvia</div>
<div>Remigijus Gustas, Sweden</div><div>Tharaka Ilayperuma, Sri Lanka</div><div>Takayuki Ito, Japan</div><div>Zhi Jin, China</div><div>Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Ron Kennet, Israel</div>
<div>Marite Kirikova, Latvia</div><div>Christian Kop, Austria</div><div>Lin Liu, China</div><div>Kale Lyytinen, USA</div><div>Raimundas Matulevicius, Estonia</div><div>Leszek Maciaszek, Poland</div><div>Manuel Noguera, Spain</div>
<div>Gustaf-Juel Skielse, Sweden</div><div>Erik Perjons, Sweden</div><div>Anne Persson, Sweden</div><div>Michael Petit, Belgium</div><div>Ivan Porres, Finland</div><div>Hendrik Proper, Luxembourg</div><div>Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany</div>
<div>Matti Rossi, Finland</div><div>Francisco Valverde, Spain</div><div>Eric Yu, Canada</div><div>Liping Zhao, UK</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>