12th Conference on Advanced information Systems Engineering

                                               Stockholm, Sweden

                                                  June 7 - 9, 2000
                               (pre-conference workshops: June 5 - 6, 2000)
 

CONFERENCE AIMS & OBJECTIVES
Since the late 1980-ies, the CAiSE conferences provide a forum for the
presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences
within the field of Information Systems Engineering. In June 2000 the
conference will be held in Stockholm - one of the most beautiful cities in
the world. Stockholm is also an important center of research and
development for some of the leading IT and communications companies in
Europe and indeed, in the world. In tune with this environment, a major
theme of CAiSE*00 will be "Information systems and services in a digitized
world".

CAiSE*00 aims at bringing together researchers, users, and practitioners
in the field of information systems engineering. The conference program
will feature paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and interactive
panel sessions.

CAiSE*00 is organized jointly by the Department of Computer and Systems
Sciences at Stockholm University and KTH, and the Swedish Research
Institute for Information Technology (SITI), in cooperation with the
Electrum Foundation.

CONFERENCE THEME
Vast improvements in communication technology, including the increasing
use of Internet and WWW have, over the last ten years, led to better
communication and easier information access in general. In addition, it
has initiated changes in the way organizations cooperate and trade. Hence,
we see the formation of virtual enterprises where smaller companies
collaborate to solve tasks they cannot cope with alone. It also leads to
improvements in information services to people as consumers and as
citizens. However, for such information services in a digitized world to
become really useful it is required that they add value to the workings of
businesses and to people in their daily lives. This calls for enhancements
of methods and tools in order better to understand organizations and the
way they interact among themselves and with people. Also, there is a need
for enhanced design methods for services that are truly value adding and
that function well together with the organizations^Ò legacy systems. In
consequence, we are inviting papers and tutorial proposals that address
these issues from a wide range of perspectives but with a common goal. The
goal is to advance theory and practice of analyzing and designing
individual but integrated information services in an organizational
context.

RELEVANT TOPICS
In addition to the special theme, topics relevant for submissions to
CAiSE*00 include, but are not limited to, the following:

Business process assessment and improvement
Business process models and processware
Component based development
Data warehousing
Electronic commerce
Enterprise Resource Planning
Information services on the net
Information systems and services to the citizen
IT solutions for learning organisations
Knowledge discovery in databases
IS strategy and planning
Managing organisational knowledge assets
Methodologies and models for IS
Metrics and assessment
Novel IS architectures (intelligent, cooperative, distributed, multimedia,
open, etc.)
Patterns (organisational, analysis, design, reuse)
Requirements engineering
Systems procurement processes
Virtual enterprising

Case studies and experience reports related to the above topics are also
welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference organizers solicit papers within, but not restricted to,
areas indicated by the topics mentioned above. Papers should not exceed
5,000 words. They must be original, and not submitted to, or accepted by,
any conference or journal. A separate cover sheet should be enclosed
containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and
the address (including e-mail address and fax number) to which
correspondence should be sent.  This is the only place where the names of
the authors should appear. The cover sheet should also contain 2 - 3
keywords indicating the area of the paper.

Proceedings from CAiSE*00 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer Science. The proceedings for the CAiSE annual conferences from
1990 to 1998 are also available from this series. The best papers of the
conference will be proposed for publication (after revision and additional
refereeing) in a special issue of Information Systems: The International
Journal.

CALL FOR PANELS AND TUTORIALS
Proposals are solicited for tutorials that will be held together with the
conference. Tutorials can be half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours) and
should be of interest to participants from the academic and business
communities. The conference program will also include a few panels on
current topics about which there is controversy and thus a need for public
discussion. Panel and tutorial proposals should include a title, an
abstract of the topics, duration, and a copy of the proposer^Òs curriculum
vitae. Tutorial proposals should also clearly identify the intended
audience and the requested level of expertise for attending the tutorial.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
In conjunction with CAiSE*00, a series of workshops will take place. They
are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between
active researchers. Workshop topics will be in line with the conference
topics. We invite prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals
stating the topic and goals of the workshop. Proposals will be reviewed by
the Organizing Committee. All participants are expected to attend the main
conference.

CALL FOR POSTERS
During the CAiSE*00 conference, a special room will be reserved for poster
sessions. Industrial and academic research projects of any scale are
invited to illustrate innovative concepts, theories or prototype systems
on a poster or in a demonstration. Poster proposals should include title,
one-page outline and names of presenters.

SUBMISSIONS
Papers are preferably submitted electronically, either in pdf format or as
MsWord97 documents, attached to e-mails under the address
caise00@dsv.su.se. Please, do not compress or uuencode.

Alternatively, papers may be submitted via regular mail. In this case,
five (5) printed copies of paper submissions should be sent to the program
chair.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadlines:
Oct. 30, 1999: workshop proposals
Nov. 30, 1999: paper submissions, panel & tutorial proposals
March 1, 2000 : poster descriptions

Notifications:
Dec. 1, 1999: workshop acceptance
Feb. 1, 2000: paper, panel and tutorial acceptance
April 1, 2000: poster acceptance

Workshop dates: June 5-6, 2000
Conference dates: June 7-9, 2000

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
Advisory Committee
Janis Bubenko Jr, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
Arne Sølvberg, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

General Chair
Eva Lindencrona, SITI (Swedish Institute for Information Technology), P.O.
Box 1243,
SE-164 28  Kista, Sweden, e-mail: eva@siti.se, phone: +46 8 752 16 36, fax:
+46 8 752 68 00

Program Chair
Benkt Wangler, CAiSE*00, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences,
Stockholm University/KTH, Electrum 230, SE-164 40  Kista, Sweden, e-mail:
benkt@dsv.su.se, phone: +46 8 16 49 47, fax: +46 8 703 90 25

Organising Chair
Lars Bergman, SITI  (Swedish Institute for Information Technology), P.O.
Box 1243,
SE-164 28  Kista, Sweden, e-mail: lars.bergman@siti.se, phone: +46 8 752
16 13, fax:
+46 8 752 68 00

Tutorial Chair
Anders G. Nilsson, Information Systems, Department of Information
Technology, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden. e-mail:
Anders.Nilsson@kau.se, phone: +46 54 700 21 07, fax: +46 54 700 14 46
 
Workshop and Poster Chair
Anne Persson, Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde, P.O.
Box
408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden. e-mail: anne.persson@ida.his.se, phone:
+46 500 464742, fax: +46 500 464725

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Apers,  Peter, The Netherlands
Borgida, Alex, USA
Brinkkemper, Sjaak, The Netherlands
Constantopoulos, Panos, Greece
Dietz, Jan, The Netherlands
Finger, Marcello, Brazil
Finkelstein, Anthony, United Kingdom
Franckson, Marcel, France
Fugini, MariaGrazia, Italy
Grundspenkis, Janis, Latvia
Gustas, Remigijus, Sweden
Haav, Hele-Mai, Estonia
Ioannidis, Yannis, Greece
Iivari, Juhani, Finland
Jarke, Matthias, Germany
Jeffery, Keith G, United Kingdom
Johannesson, Paul, Sweden
Kangassalo, Hannu, Finland
Kappel, Gerti, Austria
Kautz, Karlheinz, Denmark
Kuvaja, Pasi, Finland
Léonard, Michel, Switzerland
Lochovsky, Frederick, China
Loucopoulos, Pericles, United Kingdom
Lyytinen, Kalle, Finland
Maiden, Neil , United Kingdom
March, Salvatore, USA
McBrien, Peter, United Kingdom
Mylopoulos, John, Canada
Norrie, Moira, Switzerland
Odell, James, USA
Olivé, Antoni, Spain
Opdahl, Andreas, Norway
Orlowska, Maria, Australia
Papazoglou, Michael, The Netherlands
Pernici, Barbara, Italy
Prakash, Naveen, India
Rolland, Colette, France
Rossi, Matti, The Netherlands
Schrefl, Michael, Australia
Sellis, Timos, Greece
Sernadas, Amilcar, Portugal
Siau, Keng, USA
Spaccapietra, Stefano, Switzerland
Sutcliffe, Alistair, United Kingdom
Thalheim, Bernhard, Germany
Thanos, Constantinos, Italy
Vassiliou, Yannis, Greece
Wand, Yair, Canada
Wangler, Benkt, Sweden
Wasserman, Tony, USA
Wieringa, Roel, The Netherlands
Yang, Jian, Australia
Yonezaki, Naoki, Japan
Yu, Eric, Canada
Zicari, Roberto, Germany

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Dr Benkt Wangler, Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, SU/KTH
Electrum 230, S-164 40  Kista, Sweden
Phone +46 8 16 49 47, Fax +46 8 703 90 25
e-mail: benkt@dsv.su.se
http://www.dsv.su.se/staff/eng-staff/benkt.html