Extended deadlineThe deadlines of all events of the Enterprise Engineering Week have now been extended until July 4th, 2010.The 2nd Practice-driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET 2010) working conferenceModern day enterprises, be they businesses, organisations, or government departments, are in a constant state of flux. New technologies, new markets, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions, etcetera are among the "usual suspects" which require enterprises to transform themselves to deal with these challenges and new realities. Most information systems practitioners will find themselves working in a context of enterprise transformation. One could even go as far as to claim that a business oriented perspective on information systems is really about enterprise transformation, where enterprise transformation involves the use of methods and techniques from enterprise engineering, enterprise modelling, enterprise architecture, and information systems engineering. As a field of study, enterprise transformation requires a close interaction between practice and academia. What works and does not work requires validation in real-life situations. Conversely, it is in industrial practice where challenges can be found that may fuel and inspire researchers.The PRET working conferences are set up as a one day event in such a way that it attracts an audience from both industry and academia. PRET 2010 is a continuation of the PRET 2009 working conference which was organised as the industrial track at the 2009 CAiSE conference. The PRET 2010 working conference will be organised as part of the enterprise engineering week, and will be co-located with PoEM 2010 and TEAR 2010 in Delft.
Event FormatPRET is a highly interactive event. The conference will be organized at a venue that stimulates discussion and open exchange of ideas and experiences. In addition to highly interactive paper sessions the event will include a number of parallel think-tank sessions focusing on various topics, aiming for further development of issues and directions shared between practice and academia.PublicationAnalogous to PRET 2009, the proceedings of the PRET 2010 working conference will be organised in terms of a Springer's LNBIP series proceedings consisting of a small number of longer papers of about 20 pages on average.
LocationThe PRET 2010 working conference will be held on the 11th of November, as part of the Enterprise Engineering Week at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands from the 9th of November to the 12th of November.
Call for chaptersWe invite authors to submit chapter (proposals) which clearly bridge the gap between industry and academia. For example, by providing practical insights, evaluations of theories in terms of experiences from real-life practice or identify practice-driven challenges for further research. Most importantly, the chapters should be appealing to both an industrial and an academic audience.A PDF version of the call for chapters is available here. |