CFP: Special Issue of Information Systems Frontiers on Enterprise Architecture

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CALL FOR PAPERS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE


Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a description of an enterprise's blueprint,
which is able to capture, integrate and coordinate the different aspect
domains that represent the essentials of an enterprise. It is a framework
that
integrates business aspects including business planning, business
operations,
automation and the enabling technological infrastructure. Enterprise
architectures are disclosed by means of views; typically, stakeholders of an
enterprise access and use the architecture through views offering the
information they need presented in a user-friendly format and supported by
useful analysis techniques. In general, a view is generated from a
viewpoint,
which is a template defining the concerns of the addressed stakeholders, the
content of the view, its presentation format and the supported analysis
techniques.

Enterprise architecture is a powerful instrument in successfully managing
large and complex organisations. It provides insight into the enterprise's
operations and relations with its environment, and establishes meaningful
and
useful relations between different aspects of the enterprise, which may
already be captured in domain-specific architectures. Changes within the
enterprise or in its environment can be interpreted in terms of the
architecture and acted upon effectively; EA helps organisations to become
flexible, robust against change, and agile to react to opportunities and
(new)
developments.

This special issue of Information Systems Frontiers invites contributions to
the theory and application of enterprise architecture languages, tools and
methods. Topics include but are not limited to:

frameworks
concepts, ontologies, metamodels
adaptable metamodels
formal semantics
analysis techniques
model checking
model integration
specification of viewpoints
automatic view generation
visualisation, usability, readability
methods and best practices
tool support
tool integration
case reports
standards

Manuscripts may be submitted electronically as Word or PDF documents to one
of
the guest editors:

Hugo ter Doest
Telematica Instituut
P.O. Box 589,
NL-7500 AN Enschede,
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (53) 4850470
E-mail: Hugo.terDoest@telin.nl
WWW: http://archimate.telin.nl

Hans Bosma
Ordina Public Consulting
Burg. Burgerslaan 44 - 60,
NL-5245 NH Rosmalen,
The Netherlands.
E-mail: hans.bosma@ordina.nl

Marc Lankhorst
Telematica Instituut
E-mail: Marc.Lankhorst@telin.nl

Roel Wieringa
University of Twente, Faculty of Computer
Science, Information Systems Group
P.O. Box 217,
NL-7500 AE Enschede,
The Netherlands
E-mail: roelw@cs.utwente.nl

Henk Jonkers
Telematica Instituut
E-mail: Henk.Jonkers@telin.nl

Farhad Arbab
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413,
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
E-mail: Farhad.Arbab@cwi.nl


TIME TABLE
Submissions due: 1 March 2004
Initial acceptance notification: 1 June 2004
Final/revised manuscripts due: 1 August 2004
Scheduled publication date: January 2005


FURTHER INFORMATION
More information on the journal and instructions for authors can be found
at:
http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1387-3326 and
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/