The 16th International Conference on
Advanced Information Systems Engineering

  June 7 - 11, 2004
Riga, Latvia

Organised by
Riga technical University

CONFERENCE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

    Since the late 1980's, the CAiSE conferences provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences within the field of Information Systems Engineering. In June 2004 the conference will be held in Riga, Latvia - one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Riga is also an important centre of research and development in the Baltic States.
    CAiSE*04 aims at bringing together researchers, users, and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering. The conference programme will feature paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and interactive panel sessions.
    CAiSE*04 is organised by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Riga Technical University. The conference will be held in the Riga Congress Centre located in downtown Riga, close to the picturesque Old Town and city's business district.

  

CONFERENCE THEME

    The conference theme of CAiSE'04 is Knowledge and Model Driven Information Systems Engineering for Networked Organisations.
    Modern businesses and IT systems are facing an ever more complex environment characterised by openness, variety, and change.

• Organisations are becoming less self-sufficient and increasingly dependent on business partners and other actors. These trends call for openness of business as well as IT systems, i.e. the ability to connect and interoperate with other systems.

• Organisations are experiencing ever more variety in their business, in all conceivable dimensions. The different competencies required by the workforce are multiplying. In the same way, the variety in technology is overwhelming with a multitude of languages, platforms, devices, standards, and products.

• Organisations need to manage an environment that is constantly changing and where lead times, product life cycles, and partner relationships are shortening. The demand of having to constantly adapt IT to changing technologies and business practices has resulted in the birth of new ideas which may have profound impact on the information systems engineering practices in future years, such as autonomic computing, component and services marketplaces and dynamically generated software.

    These trends pose a number of challenges to both the operational systems and the development processes of the organisation, its work practice, and its IT systems. In order to cope with increasingly complex business and IT environments, organisations need effective instruments for managing their knowledge about these environments.
    Essential among these instruments are models, i.e. representations of aspects of reality including the domain of work, the processes, and the context. Models come in a variety of forms, formal or informal; describing static or dynamic aspects; representing agents, processes, or resources; focusing on business or IT aspects, etc. To realise the full potential of models, there is a need for a business and technology architecture as well as a way of working that place the models firmly in the centre and let them be the driving force in analysis, design, implementation, deployment and use of systems and services. This implies developing not only new modelling languages but also new ways of developing models, which incorporate in a participatory manner all stakeholders involved.

  

RELEVANT TOPICS

    In addition to the special theme, topics relevant for submissions to CAiSE*04 include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Methodologies, Models, and Tools for IS Development

• Requirements Engineering for IS

• Model Driven Architectures

• Enterprise Modelling Methods and Tools

• Service Oriented and Mobile Computing

• E-government Strategies and Applications

• Knowledge, Information and Data Quality

• Web Content Management and Distribution

• Workflow Systems

• Knowledge Management

• Model and Software Reusability

• Data Warehousing & OLAP

• Metadata and Ontologies

• Support for Co-operative Work

• Innovative Database Technologies

• Distributed, Mobile, and Open Architectures

• Agent-Oriented Technologies

• Languages and Protocols for IS

• Component-Ware and IS

• IS Reengineering

• IS Usability and Interfaces to IS

• Simulation in IS Development

• Semantic Web

    Case studies and experience reports related to the above topics are also welcome.

  

CALL FOR PAPERS

    The conference organisers solicit papers within, but not restricted to, areas indicated by the topics mentioned above. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words. They must be original, and not submitted to, or accepted by, any conference or journal.
    A separate cover sheet should be enclosed containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail address and fax number) to which correspondence should be sent. This is the only place where the names of the authors should appear. The cover sheet should also contain 2 - 3 keywords indicating the area of the paper.
    Proceedings from CAiSE*04 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The best papers of the conference will be proposed for publication (after revision and additional refereeing) in a special issue of Information Systems: The International Journal.

  

CALL FOR PANELS AND TUTORIALS

    Proposals are solicited for tutorials that will be held together with the conference. Tutorials can be half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours) and should be of interest to participants from the academic and business communities. The conference programme will also include a few panels on current topics about which there is controversy and thus a need for public discussion. Panel and tutorial proposals should include a title, an abstract of the topics, duration, and a copy of the proposer's curriculum vitae. Tutorial proposals should also clearly identify the intended audience and the requested level of expertise for attending the tutorial.

  

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

    In conjunction with CAiSE*04, a series of workshops will take place. They are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between active researchers. Workshop topics will be in line with the conference topics. We invite prospective workshop organisers to submit proposals stating the topic and goals of the workshop. Proposals will be reviewed by the Organising Committee. All participants are expected to attend the main conference.

  

CALL FOR POSTERS

    During the CAiSE*04 conference, a special room will be reserved for poster sessions. Industrial and academic research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts, theories, prototype systems, or products on a poster or in a demonstration. Poster proposals should include title, one-page outline and names of presenters.

  

SUBMISSIONS

    Submission instructions can be found on the conference website http://www.cs.rtu.lv/caise2004/.

RELATED EVENTS

    Since the Sixth International Baltic Conference on Data Bases and Information Systems (DB&IS'2004) will take place 6-8 June, 2004 some events of CAiSE*04 will be held together. For more information about DB&IS see http://www.riti.lv/dbis2004.

  

IMPORTANT DATES

WORKSHOP DATES: 7-8 June 2004

CONFERENCE DATES: 9-11 June 2004

DEADLINES

30 October, 2003         Workshop proposals
30 November, 2003     Paper submissions, panel and tutorial proposals
01 March, 2004            Poster descriptions

NOTIFICATIONS

01 December, 2003   Workshop acceptance
15 February, 2004     Paper submissions, panel and tutorial acceptance
15 April, 2004             Poster acceptance

  

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Janis Bubenko Jr
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Colette Rolland
Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France

Arne Sølvberg
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

GENERAL CHAIR

Janis Grundspenkis
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, LV-1658, Riga, Latvia
jgrun@cs.rtu.lv

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS

Anne Persson
Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde, PO Box 408, SE-54128, Skövde, Sweden
anne.persson@ida.his.se

Janis Stirna
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Forum 100, SE-16440, Kista, Sweden
js@dsv.su.se

ORGANISING CHAIR

Girts Vulfs
Information Technology Institute, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, LV-1658, Riga, Latvia
vulfs@itl.rtu.lv

WORKSHOP CHAIR

Marite Kirikova
Division of Systems Theory, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, LV-1658, Riga, Latvia
marite@cs.rtu.lv

PANEL and TUTORIAL CHAIR

Uldis Sukovskis
Riga Information Technology Institute, Kuldigas 45, LV-1083, Riga, Latvia
uldis.sukovskis@dati.lv

POSTER CHAIR

Janis Grabis
Institute of Information Technology, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, LV-1658, Riga, Latvia
grabis@itl.rtu.lv

PUBLICITY and COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR

Victoria Vinogradova
Division of Systems Theory, Riga Technical University, 1 Kalku, LV-1658, Riga, Latvia
caise2004@cs.rtu.lv

  

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Barzdins, Janis	University of Latvia, Latvia
Bouzeghoub, Mokrane	Université de Versailles, France
Brash, Danny	IT University, Sweden
Brinkkemper, Sjaak	Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Caplinskas, Albertas	Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania
Dietz, Jan	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dittrich, Klaus	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Eder, Johan	University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Franckson, Marcel	SchlumbergerSema, France
Fugini, Maria Grazia	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Grundspenkis, Janis	Riga Technical University, Latvia
Gustas, Remigijus	Karlstad University, Sweden
Haav, Hele-Mai	Institute of Cybernetics at TTU, Estonia
Hakkarainen, Sari	Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Halpin, Terry	Northface University, USA
Iivari, Juhani	University of Oulu, Finland
Jarke, Matthias	RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jeffery, Keith G.	CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Jensen, Christian S.	Aalborg University, Denmark
Johannesson, Paul	Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kalinichenko, Leonid A.	The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Kalnins, Audris	University of Latvia, Latvia
Kalnins, Juris Roberts	Institute of Social Technology, Latvia
Kangassalo, Hannu	University of Tampere, Finland
Kautz, Karlheinz	Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Kavakli, Vagelio	University of the Aegean, Greece
Kirikova, Marite	Riga Technical University, Latvia
Krogstie, John	SINTEF and IDI, NTNU, Norway
Léonard, Michel	Centre Universitaire Informatique, Switzerland
Lind, Mikael	University of Boras, Sweden
Loucopoulos, Pericles	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
Lyytinen, Kalle	Case Western Reserve University, USA
Maiden, Neil	City University, London, UK
McBrien, Peter	Imperial College London, UK
Missikoff, Michele	LEKS, IASI-CNR, Italy
Mylopoulos, John	University of Toronto, Canada
Nilsson, Anders G.	Karlstad University, Sweden
Norrie, Moira	ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Nurcan, Selmin	Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France
Olivé, Antoni	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Opdahl, Andreas L.	University of Bergen, Norway
Orlowska, Maria	University of Queensland, Australia
Papazoglou, Michael	Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Pastor, Joan A.	Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain
Pastor, Oscar	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Pernici, Barbara	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pohl, Klaus	University of Essen, Germany
Prakash, Naveen	JIIT, India
Ralyte, Jolita	University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ramos, Jaime	IST, Lisbon, Portugal
Regnell, Björn	Lund University Sweden
Rolland, Colette	Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon - Sorbonne, France
Rossi, Matti	Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Siau, Keng	University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Sneiders, Eriks	Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Stapleton, Larry	Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Sukovskis, Uldis	RITI, Latvia
Sutcliffe, Alistair	UMIST, UK
Thalheim, Bernhard	Kiel University, Germany
Thanos, Constantinos	CNR-IEI, Italy
Theodoulidis, Babis	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
Tsalgatidou, Aphrodite	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Vassiliou, Yannis	National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Wand, Yair	University of British Columbia, Canada
Wangler, Benkt	University of Skövde, Sweden
Wasserman, Tony	Software Methods and Tools, USA
Wieringa, Roel	University of Twente, The Netherlands
Wijers, Gerard	Delft University and Morgan Chambers, The Netherlands
Wohed, Petia	Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Techology, Sweden
Yu, Eric	University of Toronto, Canada