Workshops
All accepted workshop papers, as well as Doctoral Consortium papers, will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume. A selection of best papers will be invited to submit paper extensions for a special issue of the journal Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ).
Please find below details on each individual workshops and their submission schedule. Details on the Doctoral Consortium are available here.
6th Workshop on Managed Complexity (ManComp 2021)
Managing complexity has a long tradition for algorithms and general problems. However, it is an important issue also in Business Informatics domain. Here the complexity of different systems and systems of systems has to be managed. While complexity usually associates with large or very large scale systems still managing complexity is important even for systems with small sizes operating in complex environment. Nowadays informatics requires handling complexity at different levels and configurations of social, physical, enterprise, software, and hardware systems. The workshop is planned to focus on approaches and methods for managing complexity in the domain of applied informatics that may concern interplay of systems and ecosystems of various sizes and substances. Its purpose is to share and transfer knowledge on complexity identification, representation, controlling and reduction as well as to exploit possible synergies in development of innovative complexity handling strategies, a pproaches, and methods.
The ultimate goal of the workshop is bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical approaches or real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories in managing complexity.
It welcomes seeking and discussing answers to such complexity management questions as:
- How is complexity divided?
- What kinds of models are to be specified?
- What is the role of system architecture in complexity handling?
- How is the human recognized in the loop?
- What kind of rules are to be applied?
- In which way do patterns help?
- What kind of rules are to be applied?
- Which notation or ontologies are useful in complexity handling?
- How is knowledge reused?
- How is knowledge propagated?
- ... and many others.
Based on these discussions, we expect to deepen the understanding of strategies, approaches, and methods in managing complexity in enterprise, software and hardware engineering. A cross-pollination of experiences in both domains is assumed.
Submissions are expected until July 22th
August 4th (extended deadline) here. Full workshop details and submission guidelines can be consulted here.
Workshop Chairs and Organizers
- Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia, marite.kirikova@cs.rtu.lv
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany, peter.forbrig@uni-rostock.de
- Charles Moller, Aalborg University, Denmark, charles@business.aau.dk
12th Workshop on Information Logistics and Digital Transformation
Many organizations are rethinking what customers value most and developing operating models that exploit the possibilities of big data, social media, artificial intelligence and other new technologies for competitive differentiation. This often leads to a digital transformation of large parts of the enterprise targeting seamless integration of digital services/products with digitized and optimized operations. Efficient and target-oriented information flows are a major contribution to digital transformation.
Knowledge-intensive industry and service sectors, public organizations and governmental bodies are dependent on accurate and timely information supply for efficient and high quality processes and services. Intelligent information supply has become an important issue that is characterized by just-in-time, demand-oriented and context-sensitive information. The digital transformation of organizations poses new requirements to optimized information supply and emphasizes the importance of information logistics solutions.
The ILOG workshop aims to bring together people who have strong interest in digital transformation, information logistics, semantic technologies, information systems, enterprise solutions and knowledge-based systems. We invite researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to submit original results of their completed or ongoing projects. We encourage broad understanding of possible approaches and solutions for information logistics and digital transformation.
Submissions are expected until July 22th
August 4th (extended deadline) here. Full workshop details and submission guidelines can be consulted here.
Workshop Chairs and Organizers
- Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany, kurt.sandkuhl@uni-rostock.de
- Ulf Seigerroth, University of Jönköping, Sweden, ulf.seigerroth@ju.se
- Birger Lantow, University of Rostock, Germany, birger.lantow@uni-rostock.de
1st Workshop on Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS 2021)
In the last few years, software systems are moving towards blockchain technologies since they bring many advantages in different sectors. Thanks to smart contracts, data can be manipulated and accessed by users like in standard databases. This opportunity, combined with the blockchain potentialities, such as the integrity and immutability of data, guarantees trusted evidence of the information stored and exchanged in the blockchain without relying on a central authority. This makes the blockchain the ideal technology for auditing, verification and sharing purposes, changing significantly the way to design and implement next-generation distributed applications. Recently, both academia and industry show an increasing interest in blockchain, focusing on trusted data sharing.
The scientific results of the workshop have the ambition to propose new solutions strategies, approaches, and methods to organize, store, retrieve and share data. Answers to questions related to when and what data should be shared with whom and how the data owner should get credit or incentive to share their data are increasingly a matter of intense debate and research.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical/practical approaches or real-life successful case studies
It welcomes seeking and discussing answers to such questions:
- What data should be shared on the blockchain?
- How the data provenance can be verified?
- How data privacy and security can be maintained on the blockchain?
- How can be managed the access and usage of data in the blockchain?
- What kinds of structures and data optimization are necessary in the blockchain?
- How the owner can be incentivized to share data?
- What kind of analysis can be performed on shared data?
- What kind of auditing and query languages can be used on shared data?
- How data can be filtered and cleaned on the blockchain?
- How data can be integrated between different platforms?
- How the quality of data can be guaranteed?
- How data can be reused?
Based on these discussions, we expect to deepen the understanding of strategies, approaches, and methods in managing data on the blockchain
Submissions are expected until July 22th
August 4th (extended deadline) here - please select BIR 2021 (Blockchain Workshop Track) Full workshop details and submission guidelines can be consulted here.
Workshop Chairs and Organizers
- Andrea Morichetta, University of Camerino, Italy, andrea.morichetta@unicam.it
- Pierluigi Plebani, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, pierluigi.plebani@polimi.it