Call for Papers
ManComp 2024
9th Workshop on Managed Complexity
https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ManComp2024/
1-day workshop
September 11, 2024
Prague University of Economics and Business, Chech Republic
in conjunction with BIR 2024
https://bir2024.vse.cz

Managing complexity has a long tradition for algorithms and general problems. However, it is an important issue also in Business Informatics domain. Here the complexity of different systems and systems of systems has to be managed. While complexity usually associates with large or very large scale systems still managing complexity is important even for systems with small sizes operating in complex environment. Nowadays informatics requires handling complexity at different levels and configurations of social, physical, enterprise, software, and hardware systems. The workshop is planned to focus on approaches and methods for managing complexity in the domain of applied informatics that may concern interplay of systems and ecosystems of various sizes and substances. Its purpose is to share and transfer knowledge on complexity identification, representation, controlling and reduction as well as to exploit possible synergies in development of innovative complexity handling strategies, approaches, and methods.

The ultimate goal of the workshop is bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical approaches or real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories in managing complexity. It welcomes seeking and discussing answers to such complexity management questions as:
- How is complexity divided?
- What kinds of models are to be specified?
- What is the role of system architecture in complexity handling?
- How is the human recognized in the loop?
- What kind of rules are to be applied?
- In which way do patterns help?
- Which notation or ontologies are useful in complexity handling?
- How is knowledge reused?
- How is knowledge propagated?
- and many others.

Based on these discussions, we expect to deepen the understanding of strategies, approaches, and methods in managing complexity in enterprise and software engineering. A cross-pollination of experiences in both domains is assumed.

Three types of submissions are welcomed: position papers, research papers, and reports. All types should treat a topic from the workshop themes.
- Position papers (2-6 pages): Such papers should state the position of the authors regarding any topic of the workshop.
- Reports (6-8 pages) Experience reports and case studies are expected to be submitted in this category.
- Research papers (10-12 pages): Research papers should describe innovative approaches.

Publication
In workshop proceedings of the conference, Authors must use the CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published with CEUR-WS. The uniform style for the proceedings is 1-column. The CEUR-ART styles can be found in the file referenced in https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ManComp2024/call.

Submission
The papers should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mancomp2024

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline (extended): July 7, 2024
Author notification July 24, 2024
Camera-ready submission August 21, 2024

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Measures of complexity
- Agility in complexity
- Models for handling complexity
- Tools for managing complexity
- Enterprise Architectures and Complexity
- Ontologies for managing complexity
- Patterns for managing complexity
- Capability impact on complexity management

Organizers and the chairs of PC
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Charles Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark

Program Committee
- Robert-Andrei Buchmann, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
- Kolski Christophe, University of Valenciennes, France
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Ilgi Hakrama, Metropolitan Tirana University, Albania
- Ebba Hvannberg, Iceland University, Iceland
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Audrone Lupeikiene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Bartosz Marcinkowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Christian Märtin, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
- Charles Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Andrea Morichetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Jacob Nørbjerg, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
- Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
- Werner Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Chris Stary, University of Linz, Austria
- Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine

Contact
If further information is needed, please contact:
- Marite Kirikova: marite.kirikova@rtu.lv
- Peter Forbrig: peter.forbrig@uni-rostock.de
- Charles Møller: charles@mpe.au.dk