CAISE is a well-established highly visible conference series on Information Systems Engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to papers that address Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis.
The CAiSE 2014 Forum is a place within the CAiSE conference for presenting and discussing new ideas and tools related to information systems engineering. Intended to serve as an interactive platform, the forum aims at the presentation of fresh ideas, emerging new topics, controversial positions, as well as demonstration of innovative systems, tools and applications. The Forum session at the CAiSE conference will facilitate the interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas among presenters and participants.
Three types of submissions have been invited to the Forum: (1) Visionary short papers that present innovative research projects, which are still at a relatively early stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. (2) Demo papers describing innovative tools and prototypes that implement the results of research efforts. The tools and prototypes will be presented as demos in the Forum. (3) Experience reports using the STARR (Situation, Task, Approach, Results, Reflection) template.
CAISE 2014 Forum has received 45 submissions from 29 countries (Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay). Among the submissions, 27 are visionary papers, 14 are demo papers and 4 are case study reports. 11 papers have been redirected from the main conference. 34 papers have been directly submitted to the Forum. The average acceptance rate of CAISE 2014 Forum is 35%.
The management of paper submission and reviews was supported by the EasyChair conference system. Selecting the papers to be accepted has been a worthwhile effort. All papers received three reviews from the members of the Forum Program Committee and the Program Board. Eventually, 26 high quality papers have been selected; among them 16 visionary papers, a case study report and 9 demo papers.
The CAISE 2014 Pre-Proceedings available on this electronic support represent a collection of those 26 short research papers. Those papers included in the special proceedings issue titled “CAiSE 2014 Forum” are published by CEUR.
We would like to express our gratitude to the members of Forum Program Board and the Forum Program Committee for their efforts in providing very thorough evaluations of the submitted Forum papers. We wish also to thank all authors who submitted papers to the Forum for having shared their work with us.
After CAiSE 2014, Forum authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers, enriched thanks to the fruitful discussions during the CAISE Forum, for Forum post-proceedings that will be published as a Springer LNBIP volume.
Last but not least, we would like to thank the CAISE 2014 Program Committee Chairs and the Local Organisation Committee for their support.
June 12th, 2014 Selmin Nurcan, Elias Pimenidis CAISE 2014 Forum Chairs
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden