Dear Colleague, The submission deadlines for BMSD 2021 (11th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design) are approaching: March 15 / March 29 - you may have a look at the BMSD'21 website (http://www.is-bmsd.org); and also: http://www.is-bmsd.org/ImportantDates.htm http://www.is-bmsd.org/CallForPapers.htm http://www.is-bmsd.org/SubissionGuidelines.htm http://www.is-bmsd.org/Documents/Poster.pdf Further, as it concerns COVID-19, we are carefully monitoring the situation and we would adapt the arrangements accordingly if needed. We look forward to meeting you physically in Sofia but for those who are restricted to travel, a Zoom presentation would be an option. Find below actual information concerning BMSD 2021: ===================================================== 10+ Years On - BMSD'21 symposium (http://www.is-bmsd.org): [*] Proceedings published by Springer - LNBIP Series [*] Indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, EI, ISI, and DBLP [*] Now in the Linked Open Data Cloud - SN SciGraph Data Explorer [*] Ranked in the prestigious SCImago Ranking (Q3) with h-index = 44 ================== CALL FOR PAPERS ================== BMSD'21 - 11th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 5-7 July 2021 | Sofia, Bulgaria http://www.is-bmsd.org Organized by: Institute IICREST In Cooperation with: TU Delft, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, BPM-D ===================================================== BMSD - the International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in: (i) MODELING in general and in particular - conceptual modeling, goal modeling, value modeling, business/enterprise modeling, process modeling, situation modeling, data-analytics-driven modeling, predictions-based modeling, model-driven engineering; (ii) ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING and its relation to SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION; (iii) INFORMATION SYSTEMS architectures and design. Each year, a special theme is chosen, for making presentations and discussions more focused. The theme of BMSD 2021 is: TOWARDS ENTERPRISES AND SOFTWARE THAT ARE RESILIENT AGAINST DISRUPTIVE EVENTS. Adequate enterprise models are of huge importance not only for understanding and (re-)engineering an organization but also for adequately automating (part of) its processes by means of software. Not grasping correctly and exhaustively an enterprise system would inevitably lead to consequent software failures. It is therefore claimed that SOFTWARE GENERATION should essentially have its roots in corresponding enterprise engineering models. In 2021, BMSD will be held in SOFIA, BULGARIA, following previous events in Germany (Berlin 2020), Portugal (Lisbon 2019), Austria (Vienna 2018), Spain (Barcelona 2017), Greece (Rhodes 2016), Italy (Milan 2015), The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg 2014), The Netherlands (Noordwijkerhout 2013), Switzerland (Geneva 2012), and Bulgaria (Sofia 2011). ========= Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boris Shishkov, Bulgaria (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies | IMI - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Institute IICREST) Keynote Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau, Germany (University pf Potsdam) Prof. Dr. Alexander Verbraeck, The Netherlands (Delft University of Technology) ========= Publication: The BMSD'21 Proceedings will be published by Springer (LNBIP) and indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, EI, ISI, and DBLP. ========= AREAS AND TOPICS: 1. BUSINESS PROCESSES AND ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING enterprise systems enterprise system environments and context construction and function actor roles signs and affordances transactions business processes business process coordination business process optimization business process management and strategy execution production acts and coordination acts regulations and business rules enterprise (re-) engineering enterprise interoperability inter-enterprise coordination enterprise engineering and architectural governance enterprise engineering and software generation enterprise innovation 2. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS essential business models re-usable business models business value models business process models business goal models integrating data analytics in business modeling semantics and business data modeling pragmatics and business behavior modeling business modeling viewpoints and overall consistency business modeling landscapes requirements elicitation domain-imposed and user-defined requirements requirements specification and modeling requirements analysis and verification requirements evolution requirements traceability usability and requirements elicitation 3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES enterprise engineering and service science service-oriented enterprises from business modeling to service-oriented solutions business modeling for software-based services service engineering business-goals-driven service discovery and modeling technology-independent and platform-specific service modeling re-usable service models business-rules-driven service composition web services autonomic service behavior context-aware service behavior service interoperability change impact analysis and service management service monitoring and quality of service services for IoT applications service innovation 4. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE enterprise engineering and software development model-driven engineering co-design of business and IT systems business-IT alignment and traceability alignment between IT architecture and business strategy business strategy and technical debt business-modeling-driven software generation normalized systems and combinatorial effects software generation and dependency analysis component-based business-software alignment objects, components, and modeling patterns generic business modeling patterns and software re-use business rules and software specification business goals and software integration business innovation and software evolution software technology maturity models domain-specific models croscutting concerns - security, privacy, distribution, recoverability, logging, performance monitoring 5. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES AND PARADIGMS enterprise architectures service-oriented computing software architectures cloud computing autonomic computing (and intelligent software behavior) context-aware computing (and adaptable software systems) affective computing (and user-aware software systems) aspect-oriented computing (and non-functional requirements) architectural styles architectural viewpoints 6. DATA ASPECTS IN BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT data modeling in business processes data flows and business modeling databases, OLTP, and business processes data warehouses, OLAP, and business analytics data analysis, data semantics, redundancy, and quality-of-data data mining, knowledge discovery, and knowledge management information security and business process modeling categorization, classification, regression, and clustering cluster analysis and predictive analysis ontologies and decision trees decision tree induction and information gain business processes and entropy machine learning and deep learning - an enterprise perspective uncertainty and context states statistical data analysis and probabilistic business models 7. BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUSINESS MODELS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS smart contracts blockchains for business process management blockchain schemes for decentralization the blockchain architecture - implications for systems and business processes blockchains and the future of enterprise information systems blockchains and security / privacy / trust issues 8. IoT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS the IoT paradigm IoT data collection and aggregation business models and IoT IoT-based software solutions IoT and context-awareness IoT and public values IoT applications: smart cities, e-Health, smart manufacturing. ========= The symposium is organized and sponsored by the international institute IICREST and technically co-sponsored by BPM-D. Cooperating organizations are: AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, TU Delft - Delft University of Technology, CTIT - the U-Twente Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, SIKS - the Nederlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems, and AMAKOTA Ltd. ========= Key dates Regular Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2021 Position Paper submission deadline: 29 March 2021 Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2021 Final paper submission: 11 May 2021.. Types of contributions Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about and issue Invited Papers - submitted by best paper authors and BMSD former / future Keynote Lecturers. Paper formats concerning the symposium proceedings Full Papers should be no less than 13 and no more than 15 pages (oral presentation) Short Papers should be no less than 6 and no more than 8-pages (oral presentation) Posters (NOT published in the Springer Proceedings) - 4 page limit (poster presentation). How to submit a paper (7 steps) 1. View the technical scope 2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 4 and no more than 12 pages (Springer LNCS format) 3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper 4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org) 5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your affiliations) from the title and references sections 6. Save the file as PDF 7. e-Mail the file to: secretariat [at] iicrest.org by March 15, putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2021, Regular / Position Paper". ========= Program Committee CHAIR Boris Shishkov, University of Library Studies and Information Technology / IMI-BAS / IICREST, Bulgaria PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands Amr Ali-Eldin, Mansoura University, Egypt Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Juan Carlos Augusto, Middlesex University, UK Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Saimir Bala, WU Vienna, Austria Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Jose Borbinha, University of Lisbon, Portugal Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Bert de Brock, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Michel Chaudron, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Samuel Chong, Fullerton Systems, Singapore Dimitar Christozov, American University in Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Claudio Di Ciccio, Sapienza University, Italy Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Aleksandar Dimov, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia Dirk Draheim, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia John Edwards, Aston University, UK Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Veska Georgieva, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management SudParis, France Rafael Gonzalez, Javeriana University, Colombia Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Jens Gulden, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA Desislava Ivanova, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Gabriel Juhas, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland Stefan Koch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Michal Krcal, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services, India John Bruntse Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland Somayeh Malakuti, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany Jelena Marincic, ASML, The Netherlands Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Heinrich Mayr, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Italy Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada Paul Oude Luttighuis, Le Blanc Advies, The Netherlands Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Prantosh K. Paul, Raiganj University, India Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA Gregor Polancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Mirja Pulkkinen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Ricardo Queiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Jose-Angel Rodriguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Stefan Schoenig, University of Bayreuth, Germany Andreas Sinnhofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Hans-Peter Steinbacher, FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, Austria Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden Coen Suurmond, Cesuur B.V., The Netherlands Adel Taweel, Birzeit University, Palestine Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Ramayah Thurasamy, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Jose Tribolet, IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria Damjan Vavpotic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Martin van den Berg, De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands Han van der Aa, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA (list not yet complete) ========= Contacts Write to us at: IICREST c/o B. Shishkov (BMSD 2021 Event); P.O. Box 104; 1618 Sofia; Bulgaria Visit us online: www.is-bmsd.org e-Mails: Symposium Chair (b.b.shishkov [at] iicrest.org); Secretariat (secretariat [at] iicrest.org)