VEST 2009

VEST2009

International Workshop on Value-driven Engineering of Systems of Things

June, 08-09, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In conjunction with the CAiSE'09 conference

Important dates

Papers submission: March 20th Notification of acceptance: April 25th Camera-ready copies: May 6th Workshop: June 9th

Motivation

A wealth of innovations will grow from the technologies of the internet of things. Some consumers, manufacturers and firms have already started to benefit from them. The visible impact is double: on the one hand the shape and nature of their information system is changing; on the other hand new sources of values and new risks are emerging. The consequence is straightforward, for these ground-breaking innovations to grow systematically from idea to valuable product or service, a new engineering approach is required. Traditional information system engineering concentrates on specifying what the system should do, that is, on its functionality, serving as a prescription for system construction. Nowadays systems are composed of -or connected to- things that are not known in advance, that evolve constantly (e.g. through physical movement), and that are not designed to work together. Systems of things must provide different kinds of value and ensure that different kinds of risks are controlled adequately for a wide array of players including service providers, network operators, users, administrations as well as standard development organizations. In this context, the new challenge of information systems engineering is that of value-driven Engineering of Systems of Things.

The VEST workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between the area of Systems Engineering (in particular systems of systems engineering, requirements engineering, service-based information systems development, conceptual modelling), and Business development (in particular innovation, value creation, risk management, strategy development, performance analysis). What is the demand in terms of systems of things innovation from the standpoint of engineering and design? What are the upcoming modelling challenges and issues in systems of things engineering? What engineering methods, techniques and tools could be taken advantage of in systems of things based business development? How to design systems of things which things do not yet exist and/or that will evolve dynamically? How to evaluate and manage the impacts of evolutions of things on the systems they belong to? What are the legal a societal impacts of the new kinds of systems of things? This workshop aims to contribute to CAISE?09 special theme, namely ?Information Systems for Business Innovation?. Submissions should address the specific implications of systems of things on engineering methods, techniques and tools.

Objectives

This workshop will invite and evaluate participant contributions under the following areas:

-   Requirements Engineering -   Service Oriented Computing -   IT Strategy Alignment -   Human Computer Interaction -   Conceptual modelling -   Value modelling

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

?   value modelling and business perspective on SoTs (Systems of Things) ?   requirements engineering for SoTs ?   SoTs specific risks analysis and management ?   innovation, creativity, participatory design of SoTs, ?   serendipitous value and risk discovery of SoTs ?   viewpoint analysis, management of conflict and inconsistencies on SoT engineering ?   evolution and co-evolution of SoTs ?   intention-awareness, self-aware things design ?   competing things, intelligent things, things ecosystems ?   interoperability of things, semantic nets of things ?   systems engineering by and for things traceability ?   systems of things and aspects ?   SoTs families and product lines ?   lessons learned from COTS and service based system development ?   new fields of application of systems of things ?   reusable models of SoTs based business developments, e.g. in healthcare, retail, education, transports, entertainment, communication ?   domain specific SoT applications ? e.g. for marketing, sales, logistics, manufacturing, quality control, maintenance, crisis management ?   alignement of SoTs to standards and legislation ?   industrial experience and empirical studies

Format and duration

We aim for a highly interactive forum. Discussants and discussion facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session, respectively, to ensure an atmosphere of productive interaction. The working language is English.

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer?s LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Three kinds of submissions are possible. (1) Full papers of up to 15 pages; (2) Short position papers of up to 6 pages, devoted to research in progress; (3) Industrial experience papers of up to 6 pages. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.

The papers should be emailed to viscusi@disco.unimib.it, indicating the kind of paper submitted.

Workshop Chairs

Camille Salinesi - Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI) - University of Paris 1 Panth?on ? Sorbonne (France)

Gianluigi Viscusi - Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) - Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy)

Program Committee

Andreas Opdahl - University of Bergen (Norway) Anne Persson - Informatics Research Centre - University of Sk?vde (Sweden) Ana Moreira - Computer Science Department - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) Carine Souveyet - Centre de Recherche en Informatique - Universit? Paris 1 ? Panth?on Sorbonne (France) Cornelius Ncube - Software Systems Research Centre - Bournemouth University (UK) Barbara Pernici - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano (Italy) David Orban - WideTag, Inc. (USA) Flavio De Paoli - Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) - Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy) Giorgio De Michelis - Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) - Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (Italy) John Krogstie - Department of Computer and Information Science - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU (Norway) Klaus Pohl - Software Systems Engineering - University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) Lars-Ake Fredlund - Department of Languages and Systems and Software Engineering Faculty of Computer Sciences Technical University of Madrid - UPM (Spain) Mikio Aoyoma - Network, Information and Software Engineering (NISE) - Nanzan University (Japan) Motoshi Saeki - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) Oscar Pastor - Computation and Information Systems Department, Valencia University of Technology ( Spain) Pete Sawyer - Computing Department InfoLab21 Lancaster University (UK) Xavier Franch - Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya (Spain) Willem Jan van den Heuvel - InfoLab, Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Wolfgang Prinz - Fraunhofer-Institut f?r Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT (Germany)

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