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6th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM)
November 6-7, 2013
RIGA, LATVIA
http://poem2013.rtu.lv
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PoEM 2013 is the 6th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice
of Enterprise Modeling. It aims at improving the understanding of
the practice of Enterprise Modelling (EM) by offering a forum for
sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and
practitioners from industry and the public sector. The conference
proceedings are published by Springer Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing.
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TYPES OF PAPERS
Research papers describe original research contributions to the area
of EM.
Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in
practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on
industrial cases and practices.
Practitioner papers may address any aspect of EM or enterprise
architectures relevant from a practitioners point of view. These
papers have a specific review procedure.

Short papers can be used to present work in progress and emerging EM
challenges. That includes presentation of ongoing thesis or
research work by PhD or Master students.
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TOPICS
Topics relevant for submission, but are not limited to, are:
* Enterprise modelling theory
* Enterprise modelling practice and case studies
* Enterprise modelling tools
* Agile enterprise modelling
* Enterprise modelling for information systems development
* Knowledge management and enterprise modelling
* Quality, validation, and quantitative analysis of enterprise models
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline - June 30
Notification of acceptance - August 16
camera-ready version due - August 23
PoEM conference - November 6-7
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION
Accepted experience papers and research papers will be published in
Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP,
indexed in ISI Proceedings, DBLP, EI and Scopus). Short papers and
practitioner papers will be published in the CEUR workshop
proceedings series.
Papers have to be submitted in PDF or DOC format using the EasyChair
submission page. All submissions must be unpublished and not be
under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP
format. Page limit for experience and research papers is 15 pages,
short papers and practitioner papers should not exceed 10 pages.
At least one author of the accepted paper should register for the
conference and present the paper.
EasyChair submission page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2013
Springer formatting guidelines:
http://www.springer.com/series/7911
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ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology, Riga Technical University in cooperation
with Latvian IT Cluster and IIBA Latvia Chapter.

Organization committee
Janis Grabis – General chair
Marite Kirikova and Jelena Zdravkovic – PC co-chairs
Renate Strazdina - Industrial cooperation chair
Gundega Lazdane (IIBA Latvian Chapter)
Lilita Sparane (Latvian IT Cluster)

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be extended)
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Guiseppe Berio, University of South Brittany, France
Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Steinar Carlsen, Computas AS, Norway
Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany
Sergio Espana, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden
Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Canada
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Havard Jorgensen, Commitment AS, Norway
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Marc Lankhorst, Novay, the Netherlands
Ulrike Lechner, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Michel Leonard, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Peri Loucopoulos, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom
Niel Maiden, City University London, United Kingdom
Florian Matthes, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Graham McLeod, PROMIS Solutions AG, South Africa
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics, Austria
Christer Nellborn, Nellborn Management Consulting AB, Sweden
Bjorn Nilsson, Anates AB, Luxembourg
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Sietse Overbeek, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
Anne Persson, University of Skovde, Sweden
Michael Petit, University of Namur, Belgium
Naveen Prakash, GCET, India
Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Jolita Ralyte, Université de Geneve, Switzerland
Peter Rittgen, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
Ulf Seigerroth, Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden
Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS, Russia
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Maarten Steen, Novay, the Netherlands
Janis Stirna, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Renate Strazdina, Ernst&Young SIA, Latvia
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
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CONTACTS
Janis Grabis
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Riga Technical University,
Kalku 1, Riga, LV-1658, Latvian
e-mail: grabis@rtu.lv, phone: +371-67089594
http://poem2013.rtu.lv
http://www.ditf.rtu.lv
http://www.itbaltic.com