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 2000 the conference will be held in Stockholm - one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Stockholm is also an important center of research and development for some of the leading IT and communications companies in Europe and indeed, in the world. In tune with this environment, a major theme of CAiSE*00 will be "information systems and services in a digitized world".
CAiSE*00 aims at bringing together researchers, users, and practitioners in the field of information systems engineering. The conference program will feature paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and interactive panel sessions.
CAiSE*00 is organized jointly by the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and KTH, and the Swedish Research Institute for Information Technology (SITI), in cooperation with the Electrum Foundation.
Vast improvements in communication technology, including the increasing use of Internet and WWW have, over the last ten years, led to better communication and easier information access in general. In addition, it has initiated changes in the way organizations cooperate and trade. Hence, we see the formation of virtual enterprises where smaller companies collaborate to solve tasks they cannot cope with alone. It also leads to improvements in information services to people as consumers and as citizens. However, for such information services in a digitized world to become really useful it is required that they add value to the workings of businesses and to people in their daily lives. This calls for enhancements of methods and tools in order better to understand organizations and the way they interact among themselves and with people. Also, there is a need for enhanced design methods for services that are truly value adding and that function well together with the organizations' legacy systems. In consequence, we are inviting papers and tutorial proposals that address these issues from a wide range of perspectives but with a common goal. The goal is to advance theory and practice of analyzing and designing individual but integrated information services in an organizational context.
In addition to the special theme, topics relevant for submissions to CAiSE*00 include, but are not limited to, the following:
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference organizers 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*00 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The proceedings for the CAiSE annual conferences from 1990 to 1998 are also available from this series. 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*00, 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*00 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 or prototype systems on a poster or in a demonstration. Poster proposals should include title, one-page outline and names of presenters.
SUBMISSIONS
Papers are preferably submitted electronically, either in pdf format or as MsWord97 documents, attached to e-mails under the address caise00@dsv.su.se. Please, do not compress or uuencode.
Alternatively, papers may be submitted via regular mail. In this case, five (5) printed copies of paper submissions should be sent to the program chair.
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference dates: June 7-9, 2000
Advisory Committee
Janis Bubenko Jr, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
Arne Sølvberg, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
General Chair
Eva Lindencrona, SITI (Swedish Institute for Information Technology),
P.O. Box 1243, SE-164 28 Kista, Sweden,
e-mail: eva@siti.se,
phone: +46 8 752 16 36, fax: +46 8 752 68 00
Program Chair
Benkt Wangler, CAiSE*00, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences,
Stockholm University/KTH, Electrum 230,
SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden,
e-mail: benkt@dsv.su.se,
phone: +46 8 16 49 47, fax: +46 8 703 90 25
Organising Chair
Lars Bergman, SITI/SISU (Swedish Institute for Information Technology),
P.O. Box 1243, SE-164 28 Kista, Sweden,
e-mail: lars@sisu.se , phone: +46 8 752 16 13, fax: +46 8 752 68 00
Tutorial Chair
Anders G. Nilsson, Information Systems, Department of Information Technology,
Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden,
e-mail: Anders.Nilsson@kau.se,
phone: +46 54 700 21 07, fax: +46 54 700 14 46
Workshop and Poster Chair
Anne Persson, Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde,
P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden,
e-mail: anne.persson@ida.his.se,
phone: +46 500 448342, fax: +46 500 448399
Borgida, Alex, Rutgers University,
USA
Brinkkemper, Sjaak, Baan
Company R&D, The Netherlands
Constantopoulos, Panos,
University of Crete, Greece
Dietz, Jan, Delft University
of Technology, The Netherlands
Finger, Marcello, University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Franckson, Marcel, Sema
Group, France
Fugini, MariaGrazia, Politecnico
di Milano, Italy
Grundspenkis, Janis, Riga
Technical University, Latvia
Gustas, Remigijus, Karlstad
University , Sweden
Haav, Hele-Mai, Institute
of Cybernetics, Estonia
Ioannidis, Yannis, University
of Athens, Greece
Iivari, Juhani, University
of Oulu, Finland
Jarke, Matthias, RWTH Aachen,
Germany
Jeffery, Keith G, CLRC Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, UK
Johannesson, Paul, Stockholm
University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kangassalo, Hannu, University
of Tampere, Finland
Kappel, Gerti, Johannes
Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Kautz, Karlheinz, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark
Kuvaja, Pasi, University
of Oulu, Finland
Léonard, Michel, Centre
Universitaire Informatique, Switzerland
Lochovsky, Frederick, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Loucopoulos, Pericles, University
of Manchester Insitute of Science and Technology, UK
Lyytinen, Kalle, University
of Jyväskylä, Finland
Maiden, Neil, City University,
UK
March, Salvatore, University
of Minnesota, USA
McBrien, Peter, King’s College
London, UK
Mylopoulos, John, University
of Toronto, Canada
Norrie, Moira, ETH Zentrum,
Switzerland
Olivé, Antoni,
Polytechnical University of Catalunya, Spain
Opdahl, Andreas, University
of Bergen, Norway
Orlowska, Maria, University
of Queensland, Australia
Papazoglou, Michael, Tilburg
University, The Netherlands
Pernici, Barbara, Politecnico
di Milano, Italy
Prakash, Naveen, DIT, India
Rolland, Colette, Université
de Paris 1, France
Rossi, Matti, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Schrefl, Michael, University
of South Australia, Australia
Sellis, Timos, National
Technical University of Athens, Greece
Sernadas, Amilcar, Technical
University of Lisboa, Portugal
Siau, Keng, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Spaccapietra, Stefano, EPFL-DI-LBD,
Switzerland
Sutcliffe, Alistair, City
University, United Kingdom
Thalheim, Bernhard, Brandenburg
Technical University, Germany
Thanos, Constantinos, CNR-IEI,
Italy
Vassiliou, Yannis, National
Technical University of Athens, Greece
Wand, Yair, University of
British Columbia, Canada
Wasserman, Tony, Software
Methods and Tools, USA
Wieringa, Roel, University
of Twente, The Netherlands
Yang, Jian, CSIRO, Australia
Yonezaki, Naoki, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Japan
Yu, Eric, University of
Toronto, Canada
Zicari, Roberto, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany