EMMSAD 2017 was co-located with the CAiSE 2017 conference and held from 12-13 June 2017 in Essen, Germany.
The field of information and software systems development has resulted in a rich heritage of modelling methods and notations (e.g. ER, ORM, UML, ArchiMate, EPC, BPMN, DEMO). This canon of methods and notations continuous to be enriched with extensions, refinements, and even new languages, to deal with new challenges. Even with some attempts to standardize, new modelling methods are constantly being introduced, especially in order to deal with emerging trends such as compliance and regulations, cloud computing, big data, business analytics, the internet of things, etc. These ongoing changes significantly impact the way information and software systems, enterprises, and business processes are being analysed and designed in practice.
Evaluation of modelling methods contributes to the knowledge and understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge may guide researchers towards the development of the next generation of modelling methods and help practitioners select the modelling methods most appropriate to their needs. A variety of empirical and non-empirical evaluation approaches can be found in the literature: feature comparison, meta-modelling, metrics, paradigmatic analyses, contingency identification, ontological evaluation, surveys, laboratory and field experiments, case studies, and action research. Yet, there is a paucity of such research in the literature.
The EMMSAD conference focuses on evaluating, as well as exploring and enhancing, modelling methods and techniques for the development of information and software systems, enterprises, and business processes. The objective of the EMMSAD conference series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in evaluation and modelling methods for systems development to meet and exchange research ideas and results. It also provides the participants an opportunity to present their research papers and experience reports, and to take part in open discussions.
Co-chairs:
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Wided Guédria, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology - LIST, Luxembourg
Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
Sérgio Guerreiro, Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Advisory committee:
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) , Norway
Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology - LIST, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Proceedings
The LNBIP proceedings can be found at http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319594651#otherversion=9783319594668.
The CEUR proceedings can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1859/.
Program
The program can be found here.
Program Committee
Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Tony Clark, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Dolors Costal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Sybren De Kinderen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Rebecca Deneckere, Centre de Recherche en Informatique, France
John Erickson, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA
Neil Ernst, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Peter Fettke, German Research Center for Artificial Inteilligence (DFKI) and Saarland University, Germany
Kathrin Figl, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria
Mohamad Gharib, Department of Mathematics and Informatics University of Florence, Italy
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
Wided Guedria, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Sergio Guerreiro, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) / Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Timothy Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, Canada
Lidia Lopez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München, Germany
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estland
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Owen Molloy, NUIG, Ireland
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Herve Panetto, CRAN, University of Lorraine, CNRS, France
Oscar Pastor Lopez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento, Italy
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anne Persson, University of Skövde, Sweden
Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Camille Salinesi, CRI, Universite de Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
Alberto Silva, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Sase Singh, Elizabeth City State University, USA
Monique Snoeck, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Arnon Sturm, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dirk van der Linden, University of Haifa, Israel
Steven van Kervel, Formetis BV, The Netherlands
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Michael Wufka, Douglas College, Canada
Marielba Zacarias, Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa, Israel
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden