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Workshop on Business-Driven Enterprise Application Design & Implementation
Cristal City, Washington D.C., USA, July 21, 2008
during
IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’08) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE ’08)
Cristal City, Washington D.C., USA, July 21-24, 2008
http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/
Motivation
A critical success factor for Enterprise Application development is to get the systems specifications validated early in the planning and development process. Specification errors that are identified early on in the process are easier and less costly to fix. However, all too frequently business users only discover the impact of specifications once a system is deployed. It is therefore important to provide business users with representations of the future system that enable them to quickly catch the ramifications of current application specifications.
Enterprise applications supporting a given business process need to be able to react quickly to changes in market, operational and legal requirements. Therefore, it is insufficient to rely on an early or even periodic synchronization of system specifications with business needs. Rather development methods must support a continuous validation and traceability of system specifications against business needs. This in turn requires an enhancement of current system specification techniques such as business process modeling, service modeling (SOA), data modeling, use case modeling,and user interface design in order to support continuous validation. For some application domains end-user driven development with situational applications and mash-ups builders will enable rapid synchronization of IT systems and business needs.
Another critical success factor is ensuring that Enterprise Applications are business-aligned. This can be achieved when models of business strategy and business operations are at the right level of abstraction to support efficient analysis of current business operations, applications and IT infrastructure. Business subject matter experts, transformation specialists and IT specialists are then able to engage in meaningful analysis of changes to business operations reflected in current and future state scenarios. Thus, current techniques for business and IT modeling need to support efficient analysis of business strategy and operations, and application architecture.
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experience on solutions for current challenges on modeling techniques and tools that support the early, precise, and continuous validation of application specifications by business users, and on aligning applications with business needs in an effective manner. Foremost, we intend to strengthen the foundations of this emerging area by merging the scientific and industry points of views. We explicitly welcome the submission of case studies, and empirical studies that show how tools and modeling techniques impact the ability of business users to validate Enterprise Applications specifications early in the development cycle and support the continuous traceability of business needs.
Topics of Interest
In this one-day workshop, we invite contributions, which discuss methodological, technical, application-oriented and theoretical aspects of designing and implementing business-driven enterprise applications. These topics include, but are not limited to:
- User Centered Design for Enterprise Application Development
- Software development and evolution in the perspective of enterprise modeling and alignment.
- Methodologies and frameworks for creating and maintaining enterprise application alignment.
- Business process alignment and SOA.
- Business-driven requirements elicitation and traceability
- Business process modeling
- Business operations simulation
- Enterprise application mapping
- Enterprise Architecture and Application Design
- Agent- and Goal Oriented Modeling
- Representation of architectural and business constrains
- Business-driven specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
- Business process reengineering and application alignment
- Case studies and experiences with business-driven enterprise applications
- Innovative solutions for the business-driven enterprise applications lifecycle
- Business driven design and implementation of social software
- Situational applications and Enterprise Mash-up
Submission procedure
Important dates:
April 21, 2008 Workshop papers due
April 30, 2008 Notification of workshop paper acceptance
May 15, 2008 Camera-Ready copy of accepted workshop papers due
July 21, 2008 Workshop program
All submissions must be limited to 8 pages following the IEEE format. Authors are requested to prepare submissions as close as possible to final camera-ready versions. The submission should clearly emphasize the discussion aspects relevant to the workshop. Members of an international program committee will review all submissions. For the rigorousness of the reviewing process, authors may also submit additional material such as screen dumps, images (e.g. PNG files), videos (e.g., MPEG, AVI files), demonstrations (e.g., Camtasia, SnagIt, Lotus ScreenCam) of software.
Submissions should be made electronically as PDF documents before the submission deadline using the online submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bddi08
Authors are asked to create a submission system account first. Subsequently, this account can be used to submit one or more abstracts and upload corresponding papers.
For questions and comments, please contact the workshop co-chairs at mgstolze@us.ibm.com, jean.vanderdonckt@uclouvain.be and kenia.sousa@student.uclouvain.be.
Workshop co-chairs addresses and affiliations
Markus Stolze
IBM Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Tel.: +1 (914) 945-1713
E-mail: mgstolze@us.ibm.com – URL: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/stolze.index.html
Jean Vanderdonckt
Belgian Lab. of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI), Louvain School of Management (IAG)
Université catholique de Louvain
Place des Doyens, 1 – B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Tel.: +32-10 478525 – Fax: +32-10 478324
E-mail: jean.vanderdonckt@uclouvain.be – URL: http://www.isys.ucl.ac.be/bchi/members/jva
Kênia Sousa
Belgian Lab. of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI), Louvain School of Management (IAG)
Université catholique de Louvain
Place des Doyens, 1 – B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Tel.: +32-10 478379 – Fax: +32-10 478324
E-mail: kenia.sousa@student.uclouvain.be – URL: http://www.isys.ucl.ac.be/bchi/members/kso/
Joseph Kramer
IBM Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Tel.: +1 (914) 784-6051
Program committee (to be contacted)
• Chris Stary, University of Linz, Austria
• David Redmiles, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
• Eric Dubois, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
• Eric Yu, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
• Florian Matthes, TU Munich, Germany
• Hallvard Traetteberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway
• Kevin Schneider, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Manuel Kolp, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands
• Markus Strohmaier, Technical University Graz, Austria
• Michael Maximilian, IBM Research, Almaden, USA
• Michael J. Muller, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA
• Michaël Petit, University of Namur, Belgium
• Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
• Nick Russel, TUE, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Nora Koch, Univ. of Munich, Germany
• Nuno Nunes, Univ. Madeira, Portugal
• Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
• Pankaj Dhoolia, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi
• Silvia Abrahão, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
• Stéphane Faulkner, University of Namur, Belgium
• Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria
• Thomas Herrmann, University of Bochum, Germany
• Tom Moran, IBM Research, Almaden, USA
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