*** ITA 2016: Call for Papers ***

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*** Special Session on IT Agility ***
The 4th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES2016)
02-03/11/2016, Melbourne, Australia

URL: http://www.es2016.conferences.academy/special-session.html
Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=es2016

Technically sponsored by IEEE SMC
ES 2016 conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the ES2016 will be invited for extension
for the special issues of some international journals, including:

1) Enterprise Information System (SCI-indexed, ERA2010 rank A)
2) Journal of Industrial Information Integration (Elsevier)
3) Journal of Industrial Integration and Management (World Scientific)
4) Journal of Management Analytics (Taylor & Francis)


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Important Dates
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Paper Submission Due: 30/06/2016
Author Notification Due: 15/08/2016
Camera Ready Due: 25/08/2016


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Conference Scope
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The ES 2016 organizing team invites professionals in the area of Enterprise Systems to
submit papers to a special session on IT Agility. IT in large enterprises have historically
been designed to deliver solutions while avoiding creating technical debt and minimizing risk.
Designing systems this way often extends the time to deploy solutions as many possible
outcomes have to be taken into consideration before development can begin. Designing this
way can also delay the ability to make improvements to the system. An agile architecture
is defined by the Scaled Agile Framework as “an active evolution of the design and architecture
of a system, concurrent with the implementation of new business functionality”.
As enterprises adopt agile methodologies for how teams work together, the IT can become the
bottleneck due to design inflexibility. Microservices and API based systems increase IT agility
by de-coupling components and allow the teams to work independently and autonomously.
This session welcomes papers addressing the need to improve agility of IT systems for enterprises
that adopting agile practices.

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Topics of Interest
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Papers are invited in the areas below,
but do not exclude research in the general areas of these topics.

- Agile Architecture
- Continuous Architecture
- De-coupling Enterprise Systems
- Microservices
- API
- Enterprise Architecture in Agile

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Paper Submissions
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Paper submission system is available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=es2016

The submitted paper should adhere to the double-blind review policy.
All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on
the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance,
and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically.
Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected
without review. Please note:

(1) Full papers present final result. They must not exceed 12 pages
(2) Short papers can contain preliminary results. They must not exceed 8 pages
(3) All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html


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Publication
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Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.

Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the ES2016 will be invited
for extension for the special issues of some international journals, including

(1) Enterprise Information System (SCI-indexed, ERA2010 rank A)

(2) Journal of Industrial Information Integration (Elsevier)

(3) Journal of Industrial Integration and Management (World Scientific)

(4) Journal of Management Analytics (Taylor & Francis)


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Organizers
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- Grant Miller (millerg@us.ibm.com, IBM, USA)