First International Workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Information , 15. febb

CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Information
Systems Engineering (PHISE'05)

To be held in conjunction with
The 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'05)

13-14 June 2005, Porto, Portugal

http://kybele.escet.urjc.es/PHISE05/

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PRESENTATION
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Empirical and Formal Sciences are more ancient than Engineering Sciences and, for this reason, they have their own philosophical branch, the Philosophy of Science. Unfortunately, Engineering Sciences have no fully developed philosophical branch working towards conceptual clarity.
This workshop will try to cover different aspects related to philosophical foundations of the research in Software Engineering applied to Information System development. We propose an interdisciplinary workshop as a result of the confluence of three disciplines: Philosophy of Sciences and Technology, Software Engineering (SE) and Information System (IS). The topics that will be covered in the workshop will be related to methodological research in SE and IS (research methods, validation of the research results, etc.) as well as other relevant issues as the use of Ontologies and metaphors in SE and IS, Ethics, Information Society and Cybersociety, Cyberspace, etc.
The following questions about SE research may be posed: Are current methods for SE research appropriate? Do they meet all the possible problems in this area? Is it necessary to define new and different methods to the traditional scientific ones? Is it necessary to adapt the existing ones? How should research works in SE be validated?
It seems clear that methodological aspects in Information Systems Engineering (ISE) should not be separated from the foundations of Philosophy of Science, but benefit from the synergy of both disciplines. Besides, it is easy to appreciate that philosophical foundations affect not only ISE research, but also many others aspects of these disciplines. In general, such foundations are directly imported from traditional sciences, which is not always right. Think, for example of the utilization of the term 'model' in IS or SE: does it have the same meaning as the one used in Models Theory? In this sense, a recent important international activity tries to go deeper into these concepts from a philosophical perspective, mainly studying the philosophical concept of 'ontology' applied to ISE. The workshop will be an attempt to cover the existing lack of philosophical foundation in ISE as a first meeting forum between these two disciplines.

IMPORTANT DATES
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13 - 14 June 2005: Workshops
15 - 17 June 2005: Conference

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2005
Acceptance Notifications: 4 April 2005
Final Due Dates: 25 April 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS
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We ask for contributions related, but not limited, to the following topics:


o        Philosophical foundations of ISE
o        Philosophy of sciences applied to ISE
o        Science and Technology
o        Research methods in ISE
o        Research methods in Requirements Engineering
o        Experiences using and adapting traditional research methods to ISE
o        Validation of research works in ISE
o        Action research
o        Ethics in ISE research
o        Ontologies in ISE
o        Information society
o        Metaphor in ISE
o        Feminist Philosophy and Information Systems Engineering


SUBMISSIONS
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Papers must be original contributions and they have not to exceed 10 pages in Times and following the format specified by LNCS. Full details, can be found on the Springer LNCS Web site. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats.
Submission instructions can be found on the workshop website http://kybele.escet.urjc.es/PHISE05/. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. In case of problems with the submission system or any technical question, please contact with the organizers (cjacunia@escet.urjc.es).
The submission should clearly emphasize the discussion aspects relevant to the workshop. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the CAiSE Workshop Proceedings, with ISBN.

ORGANIZATION
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Organization & Programm Committe Chairs
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Esperanza Marcos
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Madrid, Spain

Roel Wieringa
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Organization Committe
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Cesar J. Acuña                Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
M. Valeria de Castro        Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Juan Manuel Vara        Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Belén Vela                Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Programm Committe
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Pere Botella                Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain
Christoph Bussler        DERI, National University of Ireland
Jose Mª Cavero                Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Jürgen Dunkel                Universität Hannover, Germany
Sven Hansson                Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Heinz K. Klein                Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Mark Lycett                Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
Kalle Lyytinen                 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
John-Jules Ch. Meyer        Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tom Maibaum                King's College London, UK
Joan Antoni Pastor        Universidad Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain
Francisco Ruiz                Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Isidro Ramos                Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Genoveva Vargas                Laboratory LSR-IMAG, CNRS, France