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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/
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