[ecoop-info] CFP ReMoD 08 Regulations Modelling and Deployment

[Vanthienen, Jan]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers
ReMoD 08: Regulations Modelling and Deployment

Interdisciplinary Workshop In conjunction with CAiSE'08, Montpellier, France, June 16-20, 2008
More information: http://www.univ-paris12.fr/lacl/REMOD08/

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
This interdisciplinary one-day workshop focuses on methods, processes, and support of regulation formulation, formalisation, verification, validation, and deployment in information systems engineering. 
Typical areas of application are: Business Rules and Business Processes (including Rule-based Architecture), Governance, Compliance, Policies, Legal Systems, Taxation, Financial Services, IT Governance, Security and Safety Regulations, (Medical) Protocols, transport and E-business, ...

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP 
The workshop aims to further the field of Regulations Modelling and Deployment in information systems engineering, because the way a certain set of rules/regulations is to be deployed is so much related to the way regulations are to be modelled, and vice versa.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Research and industry participants from the fields of Information Systems and, in particular, IS Development, Business-IT Alignment, Requirements Engineering, Enterprise and Information Architecture, Business rules, Business Process Management, and Compliance. Through this interdisciplinary workshop, we expect to encourage fruitful exchanges between several scientific communities.

POSSIBLE SUBJECTS
Typical subjects include, but are not restricted to: 
* pragmatics and semiotics concerning regulations modelling and deployment
* quality of regulation models and deployment
* design of compliant business processes
* regulations management
* integrating rules and regulations into information systems engineering
* applications of logic to regulations modelling and deployment
* applications of fuzzy matching to regulations modelling and deployment
* validation and testing of regulation models with certification experts
* verification of regulation models, including the detection of inconsistencies and identification of missing rules
* elaboration of attack scenarios from regulation models
* terminological and conceptual foundations of regulations (including ontologies)
* natural language-based expression and elicitation of regulations
* application of rule languages and engines
* methods, processes, and support of regulation formulation and formalisation
* conceptual models of regulations using formal and/or graphical representations.
* innovative or complex cases from industry or public sector
* regulations-based generation of systems
* architecture issues
* compliance issues
* legal, philosophical, and ethical issues
* organisational issues
* systemic and cybernetics issues

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

PC and Workshop Chair: 
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Co-chairs:
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Régine Laleau, University Paris 12, France

Program Committee:
Grigoris Antoniou, Greek Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece
Alcedo Coenen, CIBIT, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Robert Darimont, CEDITI, Belgium
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Leo Hermans, Everest B.V., den Bosch, the Netherlands
Jack van Hoof, Dutch Railways, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Régine Laleau, University Paris 12, France
Michel Lemoine, Onera Toulouse, France 
Yves Ledru, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Christophe Mues, University of Southampton, UK
Tony Morgan, Neumont University, USA
Fiona Polack, University of York, UK
Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LIBRT, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Chair)
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany
Hans Weigand, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands

PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING
Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Preference will be given to papers covering the entire trajectory from modelling to deployment, in the context of sustainable information systems.  Interdisciplinary papers will be preferred over relevant but mono-disciplinary ones. Position and survey papers are welcome. Efforts are underway to secure a special Issue of a journal publication for selected papers of exceptional quality. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due: February 22,  2008
Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2008
Camera ready version due: April 1, 2008

Papers should be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not exceed 12 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. It is expected that at least one author of each accepted paper will register for and attend the workshop. 
Papers should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=remod08

More information: http://www.univ-paris12.fr/lacl/REMOD08/


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