iStar’21: The 14th International i* Workshop Co-Located with the 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling St. John’s, NL, Canada, October 18, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/istar21/home?authuser=1 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istar21 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 19, 2021 |
Submission deadline | July 22, 2021 |
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome
Contributions should describing current and ongoing research related to the i* framework with maximum 6 pages in the new CEUR-ART single column format, which can be viewed online at https://www.overleaf.com/read/bdytjtkzsqtk or downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. This year, we welcome four types of papers: technical papers, empirical evaluation and experience reports, position papers, and tool papers.
Submissions should provide an overview of the research objectives and describe contributions, including any related tools and evaluation experience. Contributions should outline ongoing and future work and provide key references.
Tool papers should include references to download information, documentation, and system features. Authors of tool papers will be invited to present a demo in a tool fair during the workshop. We encourage those submitting a tool paper to create or update a page on the i* wiki. Contact istarwiki@dbis.rwth-aachen.de if you require a new user name and password for the wiki.
List of Topics
· The role of goal modelling in digital transformation processes
· Adaptive requirements-driven systems
· Agent-oriented systems development
· Business intelligence and data analytics
· Business modeling
· Business process analysis and design, reengineering
· Business, service, and software ecosystems
· Enterprise, systems, and organizational architecture
· Evaluation, verification and validation
· Experience reports and case studies
· Evolution, adaptation, and system dynamics
· Formalizing or extending iStar 2.0
· i* modeling techniques and metamodels: i* modeling concepts, variations and extensions
· Knowledge management
· Law and regulatory compliance
· Mobile and cloud requirements engineering
· Model analysis and contextual reasoning
· Networking or integration with other modeling languages or techniques
· Novel applications of i*
· Ontological foundations
· Requirements engineering
· Scalability and uncertainty in modeling
· Security requirements engineering, privacy, and trust
· Socio-technical systems
· Software engineering processes and organizations
· Strategy modeling and business model innovation
· Tools, visualization, and interaction
· Variability and personalization
Committees
Program Committee
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Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Fernanda Alencar, UFPE
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Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa
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João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Inmaculada Ayala, University of Malaga
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Basak Aydemir, Boğaziçi University
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Juan Pablo Carvallo, University of Azuay
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Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
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Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, York University
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Dolors Costal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University
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Neil Ernst, Software Engineering Institute
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Hugo Estrada, CENIDET
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Sepideh Ghanavati, Texas Tech University
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Miguel Goulão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente
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Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente
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Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
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Sotirios Liaskos, York University
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Lidia López, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Lin Liu, Tsinghua University
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James Lockerbie, City University London
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Alejandro Maté, University of Alicante
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Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London
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Elda Paja, University of Trento
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Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
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Michalis Pavlidis, University of East London / University of Brighton
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Michael Petit, University of Namur
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Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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João Pimentel, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
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Alberto Siena, Delta Informatica
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Angelo Susi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Vitor E. Silva Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante
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Yves, Wautelet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Eric Yu, University of Toronto
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Yijun Yu, The Open University
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Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University
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Marc van Zee, University of Luxembourg
Organizing committee
- Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology, China (litong@bjut.edu.cn )
- Vik Pant, University of Toronto, Canada (vik.pant@mail.utoronto.ca)
- Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (marcela.ruiz@zhaw.ch)
Invited Speakers
Abstract. In this talk, the origin of conceptual modelling languages as the adequate vocabulary for knowledge representation and processing is introduced. The conceptualization process is required to enable machine interpretation of these languages. For that it is necessary to understand how these are conceptually structured. The “Purpose-Specificity Framework” is discussed as an instrument to classify the utilization, considering propagation techniques of domain semantics and model-value functionalities. Impact in the sense of scientific/commercial uptake is closely related to the purpose of the language, linked to the application needs. Cases from the OMiLAB Community of Practice (www.omilab.org) are presented to explain the applicability of the framework and to discuss further research directions.
Brief Biography. Dimitris Karagiannis is a full professor for Business Informatics at the University of Vienna since 1993, leading the Research Group Knowledge Engineering (www.dke.univie.ac.at). He received his PhD degree from the Technical University Berlin in 1987. The same year he joined the Research Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing in Ulm as division head for “Enterprise Information Systems”. He holds an honorary professorship from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research interests include meta-modelling, knowledge engineering, business process management, enterprise architecture management and artificial intelligence techniques. The industrial application of his meta-modelling research was demonstrated within the BOC Group (www.boc-group.com), an international software- and consulting company, founded in 1995. The scientific applications of his research impacts the Open Models Laboratory—OMiLAB (www.omilab.org), established as a non-profit organization since 2018, located in Berlin/Germany.
Publication
iStar’21 proceedings will be published in CEUR. Maximum 6 pages in the new CEUR-ART single column format, which can be viewed online at https://www.overleaf.com/read/bdytjtkzsqtk or downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. This year, we welcome four types of papers: technical papers, empirical evaluation and experience reports, position papers, and tool papers.
Venue
The Fourteenth International i* Workshop will take place on October 19th at St. John’s, NL, Canada , as part of the 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'21).
Contact
Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology, China (litong@bjut.edu.cn )
Vik Pant, University of Toronto, Canada (vik.pant@mail.utoronto.ca)
Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (marcela.ruiz@zhaw.ch)