The 7th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium

on Systems Analysis and Design

Information Systems:
Development, Applications, Education

September 25, 2014

Gdańsk & Sopot - Poland

Systems analysis and design (SAND) has been the central field of research and education in the area of Management Information Systems (MIS) or, as it is called still more frequently in Europe – Business Informatics, almost from its origins. SAND continuously attracts the attention of both academia and business. The rapid progress of information and communication technology naturally generates the requirements for new generations of SAND methods, techniques and tools. Therefore, international thematic conferences and symposia have become widely accepted forums for exchanging of concepts, solutions and experiences in SAND. In particular, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) is undertaking the initiative towards SAND’s international development.

Therefore, there are three organizers of the 7th EuroSymposium on Systems Analysis and Design are as follows:

SIGSAND is the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design. SIGSAND provides services such as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS conferences, listserv and special issues in journals. The EuroSymposia were initiated by AIS Vice President Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND-Europe Initiative.

The Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems (PLAIS) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdańsk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on systems analysis and design as well as on Business Informatics and Systems Engineering.

The Department of Business Informatics of the University of Gdansk is conducting intensive teaching and research activities. Some of its academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland. The Department is also active internationally, organizing conferencs including the 10th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), The 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), The 8th International Conference on European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN 2009) and 24th Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012). The Department is the partner of the European Research Center for Information Systems consortium.

Overview

The EuroSymposium on Systems Analysis and Design has the objective of promoting and developing high quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum to researchers and practitioners in SAND in Europe and beyond – to interact, collaborate and develop the systems analysis and design area. The EuroSymposium is currently headed by the Advisory Board consisting of prominent researchers to guide this initiative.
Previous EuroSymposia were held at:

• University of Galway, Ireland – 2006
• University of Marburg, Germany – 2008
• University of Gdańsk, Poland – 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013

• 2nd EuroSymposium 2007: A. Bajaj, S. Wrycza (eds), Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practises, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2009
• 4th EuroSymposium 2011: S. Wrycza (ed) 2011, Research in Systems Analysis and Design: Models and Methods, series: LNBIP 93, Springer, Berlin 2011
• Joint Working Conferences EMMSAD/EuroSymposium 2012 held at CAiSE'12: I. Bider, T. Halpin, J. Krogstie, S. Nurcan, E. Proper, R. Schmidt, P. Soffer, S. Wrycza (eds.) 2012, Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, series: LNBIP 113, Springer, Berlin 2012
• 6th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2013: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Learning, Security, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 161, Springer, Berlin 2013

Relevant topics

• Agile Methods
• Business Process Modeling
• Conceptual Modeling
• Curriculum Design and Implementation Issues
• Design of Mobile Application
• Design Theory Empirical Studies in SAND
• Ethical, Human and Organizational Aspects of IS Development
• Human-Computer Interaction and Prototyping
• Information Systems Development: Methods and Techniques
• IT Design for Disaster Recovery
• Model-Driven Architecture
• Modelling Languages
• Ontological Foundations of Systems Analysis and Design
• Open Source Software (OSS) Solutions
• Rapid Systems Development Requirements Engineering
• SAND in ERP and CRM Systems
• SCRUM Methodology
• SOA and Cloud Computing
• Systems Analysis and Design in Nonprofit Organizations
• Teaching Systems Analysis and Design
• UML, SysML, BPMN
• User Participation in SAND Web Design
• Workflow Management

- AIS SIGSAND - Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design of Association for Information Systems

- PLAIS - Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems

- Department of Business Informatics, Faculty of Management of University of Gdańsk

General Chair

Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Advisory Board

Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
David Avison, ESSEC Business School, France
Joerg Becker, University of Muenster, Germany
Jane Fedorowicz, Bentley University, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Julie Kendall, Rutgers University, USA
Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München,Germany
Claudia Loebbecke, President of Association for Information Systems
Keng Siau, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

International Programme Committee

Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
Petr Doucek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Rolf Granow, Luebeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Bjoern Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
Kalinka Kaloyanova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Jolanta Kowal, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Tim Majchrzak, University of Cologne, Germany
Yannis Manolopoulos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Jinsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Nava Pliskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kurt Sandkuhl, The University of Rostock, Germany
Thomas Schuster, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Angelos Stefanidis, University of Glamorgan, UK
Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
H. Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Carson Woo, Sauder School of Business, Canada
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine
Joze Zupancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Organizing Committee

Chair: Stanisław Wrycza
Secretary: Anna Węsierska
Members: Dorota Buchnowska, Bartłomiej Gawin, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Jacek Maślankowski, Michał Kuciapski
Webmaster: Łukasz Malon

   - Prof. Claudia Loebbecke
   - Ricardo Ferreira

All submissions will be reviewed by the EuroSymposium International Programme Committee for contribution to the relevant topic. The accepted papers are published as EuroSymposium 2014 Proceedings in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP).
   

The series is indexed/abstracted by ISI Proceedings, Web of Knowledge, DBLP, EI and Scopus, i.e., the most important CS/IS indexing services.

The regular EuroSymposium fee is 80EUR (340PLN), while the fee for videoconference participants is 40EUR (170PLN). The fee includes:

• a copy of Springer LNBIP Proceedings,
• participation in all EuroSymposium sessions,

• lunch,
• coffee breaks.

IS faculty members, independent scholars, doctorants and SAND practitioners are invited to submit research papers in the area of systems analysis and design. Given the broad range of topics in this Call, submissions can be based on any range of SAND research. The lengths limit of completed research paper is 5,000 words.

Papers should be submitted in PDF and doc format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format which can be found under instructions for LNBIP Authors at:

http://www.springer.com/series/7911.

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.

On-line submission is offered for EuroSymposium’2014 at Springer Online Conference Service (OCS):

http://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/EuroSymposium2014

The EuroSymposium will be held in the modern building of the Conference Centre of the Faculty of Management of University of Gdansk. Computer access, wireless facilities and multimedia projector will be available. Proximity of the Lech Walesa Airport makes the selected venue as well as the variety of hotels a proper place for the conference.

Accommodation

Hotels of different standards are available in Gdansk and Sopot:
Hotels - Sopot
Hotels - Gdansk

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Public Transport informations (with guidance to the Venue building) can be found at JakDojade.pl or via mobile version: M.JakDojade.pl

Here you can find information how to get from airport in Gdansk to the city.
A taxi rank is located in front of the main entrance to the passenger terminal and is serviced by CITY PLUS TAXI.



Phone: 585 111 555

"Everyone walking the streets of Gdańsk for the first time is surprised by the extreme beauty with which the city has been laid out and the rare splendour and luxurious sumptuousness that are manifest everywhere. What in Gdańsk enchants most are not the churches, although among these one can find much that is  worth attention, but the very foundations of the city and the way in which its power and the riches of its burghers have been embodied in its architecture".

Views such as these may be found not only in any poem in praise of the beauty of Gdańsk but also in scientific monographs on the history of European architecture. When serious scientists use the language of poetry there can be but one reason: a real admiration of the city's beauty. Gdańsk has always evoked admiration and love. We find them in expert treaties, travellers’ tales and the reminiscences of former inhabitants forced to leave the city to live afar. Similar reactions are also to be seen today. Anyone who has, if only once, shown Gdańsk to newcomers has been able to experience it. The visitors absorb its immortal beauty without analysing it or wondering what is authentic and what was reconstructed after the terrible destruction of the last war. They commune directly with the history and draw joy and satisfaction from it. This is the best proof of the rightness of the concept of reconstruction as accepted half a century ago.

A great attraction of Gdańsk lies in its old traditions. It is pervaded by its long and often dramatic history, from the visit of St. Adalbert in 997 to the great celebration of its millennium. Its history is present in its old documents and architectural landmarks, in its science and culture and in the everyday life of its people.

The traditional love of freedom has remained ever alive, revealed equally strongly in the 15th century, when the burghers of Gdańsk shook off the yoke of the Teutonic Knights, and in the times of "Solidarność", when they successfully revolted against the Communist system. Its spiritual power was manifest in the achievements of the pioneers of science from Gdańsk, including such distinguished men as the astronomer Jan Hevelius, the physicists Gabriel Fahrenheit and Daniel Gralath and the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Had they lived in the 20th century, these would have been Nobel prize-winners like their successors, the biochemist Adolf Butenandt, the fighter for freedom Lech Wałęsa and the man of letters Günter Grass.

Gdańsk has always had its outstanding artistic creators of brick, stone and amber masterpieces. The city was and is the world's amber capital. The most famous achievement of the masters from Gdańsk was the Amber Chamber, unfortunately lost in the last war.

The scientific and artistic traditions of Gdańsk have been maintained and developed by its nine institutions of higher education with their 700 professors and 55,000 students.

What is the secret of this magic of Gdańsk? The city is unique. It is not only its art and architecture that are beautiful but also its surroundings. It is situated at the junction of three geographical regions: the Kashubian Uplands, which reach 300 m in height, the Lowlands of Żuławy, the Polish “Holland” with depressions of more than 1m below sea level, and the sandy beaches of the sea shore, known as the Amber Coast, since amber really can be gathered along it. Gdańsk combines the triple beauty of landscape, architecture and history, as well as being a busy seaport and a centre of science, education, industry and culture. Best of all, however, are its people - freedom loving, open to new ideas and friendly to visitors from all over the world. They have a proverb, old but ever valid: "Everyone loves two cities - the one where he was born and Gdańsk". You may prove this for yourselves.

Prof. Andrzej Januszajtis
Emeritus professor of Gdansk University of Technology
Honorary citizen of Gdansk

Artus Court

Artus Court is located in the historical center of Gdańsk, near its old-time harbour by the Motlawa river. Its furnishings include reconstructed fire-place, 18th century sculptures ceramics from Delft, brass candle holders, a sizeable model of 1775 Gdańsk ship, among the other numerous artworks of Artus Court.

Much more information of Gdansk Artus Court is available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artus_Court

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Keynote Speeches

EuroSymposium'2007

• Prof. Keng Siau

EuroSymposium'2013

• Prof. Jane Fedorowicz
• Prof. Nava Pliskin

AIS SIGSAND European Symposium, Ireland, 2006
2nd AIS SIGSAND European, Poland, 2007
3rd AIS SIGSAND-European Symposium Germany, 2008
4th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2011
EMMSAD/5th EuroSymposium @ CAiSE'12, Poland, 2012
6th EuroSymposium, Poland, 2013

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EuroSymposium’2014
Department of Business Informatics
Faculty of Management
University of Gdansk
Piaskowa 9
81-864 Sopot
Poland
phone: +48 58 5231400
fax: +48 58 5231155
skype: swrycza
e-mail: info@eurosymposium.eu
website: http://eurosymposium.eu/