International Workshop on
Quality of Information Systems QoIS

Call for Papers

Theme and Objectives

Quality is emerging as a key issue for information systems researchers and practitioners. The information system is often defined as "a system, whether automated or manual, that comprises people, machines, and/or methods organized to collect, process, transmit, and disseminate data that represent user information". Information system quality aims at the evaluation of its main components, i.e. system quality, data quality, information quality as well as model quality and method quality. Ongoing research encompasses theoretical aspects including quality definition and/or quality models. These theoretical contributions lead to methods, approaches and tools for quality measurement and/or improvement. Most approaches focus on specific environments, such as web site quality, data warehouse quality, ontologies quality, etc.

This workshop is devoted to present and discuss papers related both to theoretical and practical aspects of information systems quality. We seek papers that address the sub-themes described below from a wide range of perspectives.

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the methodologies, techniques, models, tools and applications for :

• IS quality concepts

• IS quality improvement and monitoring

• Quality ontologies

• Formal methods for quality metrics definition and validation

• Quality costs and benefits

• Requirements quality

• Data, database and data warehouse quality

• IS quality practices : case studies and experiences

• Application areas such as e-commerce, web based information systems, component based IS, ontologies, etc.

• Specific contexts of quality : health sector, logistics, public sector, financial institutions, etc.

Submission of Papers:

Authors are invited to submit original papers on the topics listed above. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly peer reviewed by the Program Committee. Papers should be limited to 10 pages, Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Accepted papers will be published as part of the ER2005 Workshop volume, planned for publication by Springer in their LNCS series.

Papers should be submitted using electronic mail as a PDF file to qois@cnam.fr. Intentions to submit should be notified by email (title, authors and abstract) : qois@cnam.fr.

QoIS Schedule

Paper submission: June 20, 2005 (firm deadline)
Notification: July 10, 2005
Camera-ready paper: July 20, 2005

Workshop chairs :

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau (CEDRIC-CNAM and ESSEC, France) email : wattiau@cnam.fr
Samira Si-Saïd (CEDRIC-CNAM, France) email : sisaid@cnam.fr

Program committee

Jacky Akoka (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and INT, France)
Laure Berti (IRISA, France)
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France)
Tiziana Catarci (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Corinne Cauvet (University of Aix-Marseille 3, France)
Marcela Genero (la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
Michael Gertz (University of California, Davis, USA)
Markus Helfert (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Jacques Le Maitre (University of Sud Toulon-Var, France)
Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
Geert Poels (University of Gent, Belgium)
Nicolas Prat (ESSEC, France)
Jolita Ralyte (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Bernhard Thalheim (University of Kiel, Germany)
Juan Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Dimitri Theodoratos (NJ Institute of Technology, USA)