PRET 2011 - The 3rd Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation working conference

Call for Papers 

Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET 2011)

Registration online(link)

Luxembourg, September 6, 2011

Aims and objectives

New technologies, new markets, globalisation, mergers and acquisitions are among the "usual suspects" which require enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities. Enterprise transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, organisational change management, enterprise architecture, and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise transformation requires a close interaction between practice and aca­demia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers. The PRET working conferences are set up as a one day event in such a way that it attracts an audience from both industry and academia. PRET 2011 is a continuation of the PRET 2009 and 2010 working conferences.The PRET 2011 working conference will be organised as the industrial track of the 13^th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011). 

Conference Program

10:45 Opening of PRET

11:00 Paper presentation and discussion: IT Performance Management in Five Organizations
(Haanappel, Drost, Harmsen and Brinkkemper)

11:30 Paper presentation and discussion: Enterprise Coherence Assessment
(Wagter, Proper and Witte)

12:00 Case presentation and discussion: Exploring Normalized Systems Potential for Dutch MoD’s Agility: A Proof of Concept on Flexibility, Time-to-Market, Productivity and Quality
(Op’t Land, Krouwel, Van Dipten and Verelst)

12:30 LUNCH

14:00 Paper presentation and discussion: PROASIS: As-Is Business Process Model Maintenance
(Castela, Zacarias, and Tribolet)

14:30 Paper presentation and discussion: Ontology Construction : Portuguese Air Force Headquarters domain
(Páscoa, Pinto, and Tribolet)

15:00 Case presentation and discussion: Defining Requirements for an Entrepreneurship Marketplace: Business and IT Alignment in Practice
(Etzlinger, Castori, Regev, and Wegmann)

15:30 Case presentation and discussion: Enterprise Transformation: The Serasa Experian Case 

(Sousa,Gabriel,Tadao,Carvalho, Sousa, and Sampaio)
Wrap-up/conclusion of PRET

Event Format

PRET is a highly interactive event. The conference will be organized in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, at a venue that stimulates discussion and open exchange of ideas and experiences. In addition to highly interactive paper sessions the event will include a number of parallel think-tank sessions focusing on various topics, aiming for further development of issues and directions shared between practice and academia.

Paper types

Papers should reflect the mission of PRET, which is bringing together academia and the industry regarding the indicated topics. Papers should stimulate the discussion and the synergy between these two “worlds”, with the ultimate objective of improving the field of enterprise transformation. Typical papers describe: real-life case studies, challenges from industry for the academic world, practical applications of theory and/or quantitative research results regarding enterprise transformation. Paper submission from industry as well as from young researchers (MSc. graduates, young PhD researchers) is strongly encouraged. Research results can be described in an elaborated way, since the typical paper length PRET is aiming for is 25-30 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings as a chapter.

Submission guidelines

Chapters should be submitted in PDF format via the Easychair submission website:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pret2011.

Work submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration. All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the LNBIP website: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-791344-0&changeHeader

Organizers:

General Chair: Frank Harmsen, Ernst & Young Advisory and Maastricht University, the Netherlands

PC Co-chairs: Erik Proper, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands ● Wolfgang Molnar, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg ● Khaled Gaaloul, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg ● Knut Grahlmann, Ernst & Young Advisory, the Netherlands

Program Committee:

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Axel Uhl, SAP Switzerland

Bas van Gils, BiZZdesign, The Netherlands

Bas van der Raadt, Ernst & Young, The Netherlands

Eric Dubois, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and University of Luxembourg

Erik Proper, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Frank Harmsen, Ernst & Young and Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Gregor Engels, Capgemini sd&m and University of Paderborn, Germany

Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Inge van de Weerd, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jan Mendling, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Khaled Gaaloul, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Marc Lankhorst, Novay, The Netherlands

Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Patricia Lago, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Lagerström, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Sietse Overbeek, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Wolfgang Molnar, Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Stefan Strecker, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany

Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands