Important Dates
November 15, 2006 - Deadline for submission of papers
February 26, 2007 - Notification of acceptance
March 25, 2007 - Deadline for submission of the final papers
June 07-09, 2007 - ECIS 2007


The Organizational & Enterprise Engineering Track
Enterprise engineering is an emerging discipline that aims at researching concepts, methods and technologies in order to understand, model, develop, analyze and design various aspects of changing enterprises. As a whole, it focuses on understanding the relationships and dependencies between business strategy, organizational structure, business processes and supporting information systems in the overall context of enterprise architecture. It encompasses multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from modeling business processes, developing enterprise ontologies and architectures, representing information system services to identifying best practices and patterns.

The importance of this multi-disciplinary area has been increasing with the widespread usage of service-oriented architectures and networked information systems and technologies, which enable business processes to be executed and orchestrated within and across organizational boundaries. These technologies allow to integrate enterprise applications and to automate business processes, thereby allowing the enterprise to adapt to a changing environment and to realize a real return on investment due to a reduced integration and development cost. This track provides an opportunity for researchers, academics and practitioners involved with this area, to exchange their ideas and discuss open issues and future directions.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Enterprise modeling and design
- Engineering of collaboration and interoperability
- Enterprise ontologies
- Enterprise architecture
- Enterprise information systems
- Emerging technologies for enterprise engineering

Organizational & Enterprise Engineering Track Chairs
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Jose Tribolet, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Contacts
- http://www.ecis2007.ch/ and http://www.ecis2007.ch/organisational_and_enterprise_engineering.php
- OEE Track Chairs: ecis-oee-bqZEUaylcM7and0/wzY53w@public.gmane.org
- ECIS 2007: ecis2007-RMDPTyK1aQ4@public.gmane.org



Submission Guidelines

The conference calls for original, unpublished research papers in the ares above defined. Research papers are limited to 12 pages in length. The language of the conference and all submissions is English.

Guidelines and templates are available at ECIS 2007 website (http://www.ecis2007.ch/paper_submission.php). The submissions must be sent using the ECIS 2007 electronic submission system (http://www.softconf.com/start/ecis2007/submit.html)

Submissions to ECIS 2007 may not have (already) been published previously in a journal or conference proceedings, nor presented at another conference. Moreover, they may not be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. Any submission that exceeds the length requirements, or does not adhere to the required format, or is delivered after the specified date, will be rejected without review.

All paper submissions will be evaluated in a double-blind peer review process. Each conference track will be chaired by colleagues with research expertise in the respected area. The track chairs will supervise the review process, involving selected reviewers from the IS research community. Acceptance and rejection decisions are finalized by the programme committee.

Evaluation criteria will be those typically used by major journals and first-class conferences, e.g. relevance of the topic and findings, quality (rigour) of the research process and quality of the writing. The results of the review process will be communicated to the author(s) by the specified date. The author(s) will be responsible for making the revisions recommended by the reviewers, and for submitting the final version of their paper by the appropriate deadline.

If you have any questions about the the paper submission process, please contact ecis2007-RMDPTyK1aQ7hvxM+mQhndA@public.gmane.org Any questions concerning the Organizational & Enterprise Engineering track should be sent to ecis-oee-bqZEUaylcM5mbKjIMt4/9w@public.gmane.org

ECIS 2007
Having started in the UK in 1993, the European Conference on Information Systems is set to complete its first round tour of European venues in Switzerland in 2007. Within 15 years, ECIS as well as the IS discipline as a whole has matured. The number of IS researchers and programmes has grown, the IS discipline has established itself in between computer science and business / economics, and information systems are now acknowledged as important innovation drivers and sources of growth for companies, government and society. On the other hand, we have to face discontinuities (such as the e-hype and the subsequent downturn) and large-scale transformations (such as global competition in IT service provision). Furthermore, the co-existence of fundamentally different research styles is challenging the IS discipline. The ECIS 2007 motto reflects this challenge: We need to focus on both rigour and relevance. While being rigorous, relevance must not be lost. While being relevant, sufficient rigour must be applied to create reliable, transparent results.

We take pride in hosting ECIS 2007 at the University of St. Gallen. The city itself can look back on 1200 years of monastic culture (612-1805). It became one of the cultural centres of medieval Europe, later the world capital of embroidery, and finally one of the most highly ranked locations for management education and management consulting in Europe. When attending ECIS 2007, take some time out to explore the monastery district in the city centre, a Unesco World Heritage Site. We also recommend visiting the beauty spots of the Appenzell and Lake Constance regions, both of which lie within close reach of the city, as well as the rest of Switzerland.

Most of all, we invite colleagues from all across Europe and beyond to present new findings, discuss current issues and strengthen personal networks.

Robert Winter, Conference Chair
Hubert Österle, Programme Chair



Conference Officers and Committees
Conference Chair
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Programme Committee
Hubert Österle (Chair), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Alessandro D'Atri, Luiss "Guido Carli" University, Italy
Dieter Bartmann, University of Regensburg, Germany
Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany
Jan Pries-Heje, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Willie Golden, National University of Ireland, Galway
Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics, UK

Doctoral Consortium
Helmut Krcmar (Chair), Technical University of Munich, Germany

Organizing Committee
Walter Brenner (Chair), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Andrea Back (Publicity), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Joachim Schelp (Financials, Organization, Review System, Proceedings), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Lutz Kolbe (Keynotes, Industry Relations, Sponsoring), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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