International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality
(IWCMQ’02)
October 11, 2002
Tampere, Finland
to be held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Tampere, Finland
Keynote Lecture: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Evaluating Quality of Conceptual Models
Daniel Moody (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Quality in conceptual modeling has been a topic of research since the early nineties. After a relatively quiet period in the mid-nineties, a renewed interest in conceptual modeling quality issues is observed. The theme of IWCMQ'02 is methodologies and instruments for the quality assurance of conceptual modeling processes and products. The workshop intends to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners working on approaches, frameworks, methods, techniques, guidelines, and tools for measuring, predicting, evaluating, controlling, and improving the quality of conceptual modeling processes and artifacts.
Conceptual modeling fulfills a bridge function with other disciplines such as business process (re)engineering, requirements engineering, information systems engineering, software engineering, and database design. Therefore the workshop is not limited to a particular flavor of conceptual modeling. It is open to work related to any type of 'real-world' requirements modeling and analysis (e.g. domain modeling, business/enterprise modeling, conceptual data modeling, process modeling, conceptual modeling of E-business/web-based applications).
The main workshop goal is to assemble experts from diverse IT fields. Currently there is no formal forum devoted to issues of conceptual modeling quality. Another goal is therefore to establish a permanent network of researchers and practitioners working in this domain. The concrete objective of IWCMQ'02 is to sketch a field-overlapping state-of-the-art and state-of-the-science of quality in conceptual modeling, identify possible paths of collaboration, and point out future research directions.
We cordially invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research, survey or experience papers to IWCMQ'02. All accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer-Verlag LNCS series, that will contain the proceedings of the ER'02 workshops.
Submissions are invited, but not limited, to the following topics, organized in four areas:
Theoretical Foundations of Conceptual Modeling Quality
Assessing Conceptual Modeling Quality
Evaluating Conceptual Modeling Quality
Controllingand Improving Conceptual Modeling Quality
Other topics where conceptual model quality is the major theme are welcome.
Authors of workshop papers are invited to submit original contributions not exceeding 5,000 words (approximately 20 double-spaced pages in an 11-point font). The papers must not be submitted to, or accepted by any other conference, workshop or journal. The paper must be either in PostScript or PDF format. It is recommended that the text is written following the set of format guidelines provided by the Springer-Verlag "Authors' Instructions"
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Workshop papers must be submitted, electronically, to gpoels@vlekho.wenk.be. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings (published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series).
Please read and adhere to the Author's Instructions very carefully.
These
instructions may be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
. Papers should not be more than 5,000 words or 12 pages in length. They should be carefully checked and
sent (as a single PDF file) both
to gpoels@vlekho.wenk.be and mgenero@inf-cr.ulcm.es
no later than September 6,2002.
Submission of workshop papers: June 17, 2002 !!EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 1st!!
Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2002
Camera-ready copy due: September 6, 2002
Workshop date: October 11, 2002
Marcela Genero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain)
Jim Nelson (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Geert Poels (VLEKHO Business School, Brussels, Belgium)
Chair: Mario Piattini (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Members:
Sjaak Brinkkemper (Baan, The Netherlands) Daniel Moody (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Jim Nelson (Ohio State University, Columbus,Ohio, USA)
Jeff Pearsons
(Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Reinhard Schuette (University of Essen, Germany)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Guttorm Sindre
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Benkt Wangler (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Giovanni Cantone (university of Rome, Italy)
Guido Dedene (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Reiner Dumke (University of Magdeburg, Germany )
Donal Flynn (UMIST, UK)
Marcela Genero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain)
Bill Hardgrave (University of Arkansas, USA)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology Sidney, Australia)
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Barbara Kitchenham (Keele University, UK)
John Krogstie (Sintef, Norway)
Ronald Maier (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Heinrich Mayr (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Roberto Meli (GUFPI, Italy)
David Monarchi (University of Colorado, USA)
Risto Nevalainen (FiSMA, Finland)
Oscar Pastor (University of Valence, Spain)
Geert Poels (VLEKHO Business School, Brussels,Belgium)
Gustavo Rossi (National University of La Plata, Argentine)
Houari Sahraoui (Université
de Montréal, Canada)
Martin Shepperd (Bournemouth
University, UK)
Monique Snoeck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Bernhard Thalheim (Brandenburg University of Technology
at Cottbus, Germany)