Call for Workshops

CAiSE is a well-established highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. It covers all relevant topics of information systems (IS) engineering such as methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting several workshops in its area. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussion of new ideas and developments.

CAiSE 2020, the 32nd edition of the CAiSE series, invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference, related to the CAiSE topics, covering new emerging topics and targeting ground-breaking papers in a special focus area.

The workshop organizers are encouraged to focus their events on topics that are not already explicitly addressed by the two co-located working conferences BPMDS and EMMSAD. Two kinds of workshops are invited:

• Presentation-oriented workshops: These will concentrate on presentations of accepted papers and discussion about these papers. The proceedings of these workshops are intended to be published as one volume in the Springer LNBIP series. According to Springer standards, the acceptance rate of full papers (12 pages) should not exceed 45%-50%. Some of the contributions might be accepted as short papers (6 pages) and they will appear in a designated section of the proceedings. However, the overall acceptance rate should not be higher than 45%-50%.
• Discussion-oriented workshops: These will emphasize discussions facilitated by paper presentations. Since the main criterion for paper acceptance in such workshops is relevance and potential for raising discussion, they are not expected to have their proceedings in the Springer LNBIP volume.

Workshop proposals should be submitted to:

• Henderik A. Proper (e.proper@acm.org) and
• Sophie Dupuy-Chessa (Sophie.Dupuy-Chessa@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)

Prior contact with the workshop chairs is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, for eliciting high quality submissions, for the reviewing process of their workshop’s papers according to the principles and guidelines of the CAiSE organizers, and for the collection of camera-ready copies of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with the formatting rules). Organizers (including co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop, and to provide a summary of the event to the CAiSE organisers.

Detailed instructions for workshop proposers

The proposal (length up to 1000 words) should cover the following points:

• Workshop title, duration (1 day or 2 days), preferred date (June 8 and/or 9), workshop type (presentation-oriented or discussion-oriented).
• The organizers (PC chairs, other organizers who will be present at the workshop or are otherwise involved, including the person responsible for web presence and communication). Please include names, addresses, affiliations, and indicate the main responsible person. The submission should include a one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience.
• Purpose: What are the main goals of the workshop? Please list the workshop topics. How does the focus of the workshop differ from the main conference? How does the focus of the workshop differ from other potential CAiSE events (you are advised to look at the workshops and working conferences held at CAiSE 2018 and CAiSE 2019 and differentiate your scope from theirs)?
• Organization of the workshop: Specify the type of contributions, distribution into sessions, type of sessions, etc. Mention if you plan to have any keynote speaker (please note that the conference organization will not cover fees, travel expenses, accommodation and registration cost). Include any special requirement regarding infrastructure and room layout. In particular, specify the proceedings type. For presentation-oriented workshops LNBIP will be the default option. For discussion-oriented workshops, specify how you will publish the contributions and how you plan to make them available to attendees (especially if you plan to require some support from the conference organization).
• Tentative list of PC members.
• An estimate of the number of papers to be accepted, and the number of attendees. If applicable, short information on previous editions of the workshop series (this should include submission, acceptance, and attendance information).
• Short information on your plans for publicizing your workshop and making it highly visible.

Services provided by CAiSE

• EasyChair installation for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of its own workshop)
• Publication of contributions in LNBIP volume for presentation-oriented workshops.
• One free workshop-only-registration if more than 15 people are registered for the workshop. Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register to the conference at their own expenses.
• Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). In particular all accommodation issues (rooms, meals and catering, social dinner, etc.) as well as the management of the registrations and the financing/administrative issues will be handled by the CAiSE Organization Board and are not under the responsibility of the workshop organizers
• Advertisement of the workshop on CAISE 2020 homepage and mailings.

Please note that the workshop may be cancelled if the number of registrations is less than 10. Also, in case of workshops with topics that are close, two or more workshops or working conferences may be suggested to merge.

Call for Tutorials

CAiSE’20 invites proposals for tutorials on advanced topics in the field of Information Systems engineering. These tutorials will be 90 minutes long and should aim at offering new insights, knowledge, and skills to managers, teachers, researchers, and students seeking to gain a better understanding either about methods of broad interest in the field, or emergent paradigms that are ripe for practical adoption or that require further research to reach maturity. Proposals emphasizing the special theme of the CAISE’20 conference ‘Resilient Information Systems’ are highly encouraged, but proposals on other new or long-standing fundamental challenges of Information Systems Engineering are also welcome.

Tutorials are intended to provide a pedagogic introduction to or overview of a topic of relevance. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there may be quite a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity in the audience. Tutorials will be organized in parallel with the technical sessions of the main conference and participants of the conference will have free access to all of them. Tutorials should be focused on principles, concepts and methods. Commercial or sales-oriented presentations are not allowed.

Tutorial proposals should be submitted to easychair using the conference submission site (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2020) and then selecting the “CAiSE Tutorials” track. Potential proposers are free to contact the tutorial chairs through easychair to validate their idea prior to the submission. The tutorial chairs will review each proposal and select a subset of them based on the following criteria: (1) relevance to the field of IS engineering; (2) anticipated appeal to the conference audience; (3) timeliness and importance vis-à-vis of the conference audience; (4) past experience and qualifications of the instructor(s). The tutorial chairs will also consider the complementarity of the proposal w.r.t. the conference program and other tutorial proposals.

Detailed instructions for tutorial proposers

The proposal (length up to 1500 words) should cover the following points:

• Title
• Presenters and affiliation
• Goal and Objectives: The overall goal of the tutorial and the concrete objectives to be achieved.
• Scope: Intended audience, level (basic or advanced), and prerequisites.
• Topic relevance and novelty: Specifically indicate the relevance to the scope of CAiSE, the relevance to practice, the novel aspects that would make this tutorial beneficiary and appealing to CAiSE participants.
• Structure of Contents: Here you should provide a structured overview of your planned tutorial, organized into numbered sections and sub-sections. For each sub-section, you should sketch its contents in a few sentences or bullets.
• References: Provide references to papers, books, etc. your tutorial builds on. Please specify previous venues at which similar tutorials have been presented by you and indicate the difference between the proposed tutorial and previous ones. CAiSE usually does not accept tutorials that have been presented in other venues.
• Sample Slides: Include at least 5 sample slides of the presentation you plan to give if your tutorial is accepted. Select slides that are typical for your presentation style. These slides have to be submitted in a separate PDF file.

Services provided by CAiSE 2020

• A 2-page tutorial abstract will be published in the CAiSE LNCS proceedings
• Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.).
• Advertisement of the workshop on CAISE 2020 homepage and mailings.
• The conference fee will be waived for tutorial presenters (one fee per tutorial).

Tutorial chairs

• Samira Si-said Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, http://cedric.cnam.fr/~sisaid/
• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, https://www.essi.upc.edu/~franch/

UPDATE - CAiSE 2020 Doctoral Consortium – Call for Papers

Due to the COVID-19 situation, the CAiSE conference will be held on-line. The Doctoral Consortium is maintained but the deadline has been extended. The students will be asked to record their presentations in a video that will be available during the conference.

We aim to propose an online discussion space during the conference where PhD students could present their work and interact with their mentors and other researchers. In addition, senior researchers will give some useful presentations for students. Do not hesitate to submit as the content and interactions will definitely be interesting as always has been! More details about this newly organization will come later. However, the goal remains the same.

The CAiSE’20 Doctoral Consortium will be the 27th Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the CAiSE conference series. It is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. The Doctoral Consortium will provide them with an opportunity to present their research to and discuss it with an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with Information Systems academics.

The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide PhD students with the opportunity to:

• Receive constructive feedback and advice on their research project,
• Meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field,
• Interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and suggestions among participants,
• Discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues.

To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current doctoral student within a recognized research institution. Ideally, candidates should have at least 12 months of work remaining before their expected completion, and at least 12 months of work already performed. However, all PhD students are eligible regardless of their doctoral stage.

Why to submit to the CAiSE 2020 Doctoral Consortium?

The CAiSE 2020 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by reknowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the doctoral students presenting a paper at the Doctoral Consortium. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). CEUR proceedings are indexed in DBLP.

All participants of the CAiSE doctoral consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award.

Submission process

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system (select “CAiSE Doctoral Consortium”). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the supervisors should be mentioned in the paper. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the consortium.

Submission guidelines

The paper must:

• clearly formulate the research question,
• identify a significant problem in the field of research,
• outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions,
• clearly present any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far,
• describe the research methodology that is applied or planned,
• outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness,
• conform to the Springer LNCS format,
• contain less than 4000 words (approx. 8 pages in LNCS style).

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium is based on the evaluation criteria above.

Submissions should concern original research. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication.

Registration fee

The doctoral consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 10-12 June 2020. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the doctoral consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference.

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Mario Cortes-Cornax, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Questions and inquiries

Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’20 doctoral consortium chairs at caise20-phd[at]univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.

Mentors

• Olivier Bartheye, French Air Force Academy, France
• Nicolas Belloir, IRISA / Ecoles de St-Cyr Coëtquidan, France
• Alessandro Bozzon, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Carlos Cetina, San Jorge University, Spain
• François Charoy, Université de Lorraine - LORIA - Inria, France
• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Maria Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain
• Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, England
• Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
• Jose Ignacio, Panach Navarrete, University of Valencia, Spain
• Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Philippe Roose, LIUPPA/UPPA, France
• Maribel Yasmina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
• Florence Sedes Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, France
• Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
• Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Genoveva Vargas Solar, CNRS-LIG-LAFMIA, France
• Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden

CAiSE’20 Forum: Call for papers and tool demonstrations

The CAiSE Forum is a place within the CAiSE conference for presenting and discussing new ideas and tools related to information systems engineering. Intended to serve as an interactive platform, the Forum aims at the presentation of emerging new topics and controversial positions, as well as demonstration of innovative systems, tools and applications. The Forum sessions at the CAiSE conference will facilitate the interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas among presenters and participants. Contributions to CAiSE’20 Forum are welcome to address any of the CAiSE’20 conference topics and in particular this year’s theme: Responsible Information Systems.

We invite two types of submissions:

• Visionary papers present innovative research projects, which are still at a relatively early stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. Visionary papers will be presented as posters in the Forum.
• Demo papers describe innovative tools and prototypes that implement the results of research efforts. The tools and prototypes will be presented as demos in the Forum.

Visionary papers must not exceed 12 pages in LNCS format while demo papers are short papers that must not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format.

See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for authors guidelines. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2020.

The submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.

Publication and Presentations

Camera-ready papers are expected to be received two weeks after the conference has been held. This way the authors will have an opportunity to incorporate the suggestions from the audience. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a post-proceeding volume within the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

It is expected that at least one of the authors attends CAiSE’20, presents the poster/delivers the demo and interacts with the Forum participants.

Forum Chairs

• Nicolas Herbaut, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
• Marcello La Rosa, The University of Melbourne, Australia