Second International Workshop on
Quality of Information Systems QoIS

Theme and Objectives

Quality in the domain of Information Systems (IS) and Conceptual Modeling (CM) is a relatively new research direction. However, it appears more and more as a key issue for IS and CM research and practice as noticed during past ER workshops (QoIS'05, IWCMQ'03, and IWCMQ'02) and as witnessed by the recent DKE special issue on conceptual model quality (Vol 55, No 3).

Ongoing research on quality in IS and CM 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, workflow model quality, etc. The QoIS workshop we wish to organize at ER 2006 intends to promote all areas related to information systems quality: data quality, information quality, system quality as well as model, method and process quality. The aim of the workshop is twofold. Firstly, to bring together researchers and industry developers working on several aspects of information systems quality, in order to share their works and discuss them. Secondly, to attract a broader audience around information systems quality issues.
Both theoretical and practical aspects of information systems will be considered. . We seek papers that address the topics 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 ER2006 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 1st, 2006
Notification: June 20th, 2006
Camera-ready paper: July 5th, 2006

Workshop chairs:

Program committee

• Jacky AKOKA, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and INT, France)
• Laure BERTI, (IRISA, France)
• Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB, (Université de Versailles, France)
• Andrew BURTON-JONES, (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Tiziana CATARCI, (Universitŕ di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and ESSEC, France)
• Corinne CAUVET, (Université Aix-Marseille 3, France)
• Marcela GENERO, (la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
• Paul JOHANNESSON, (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Jacques LE MAITRE, (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, France)
• Jim NELSON, (Southern Illinois University, USA)
• Jeffrey PARSONS, (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
• Oscar PASTOR, (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
• Farida SEMMAK, (Université Paris XII ? IUT Sénart Fontainebleau)
• Houari SAHRAOUI,(Université de Montréal, Canada)
• Keng SIAU, (University of Nebraska, USA)
• Guttorm SINDRE, (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Monique SNOECK, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
• Il-Yeol SONG, (Drexel University, USA)
• David TEGARDEN, (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA)
• Dimitri THEODORATOS, (NJ Institute of Technology, USA)
• Bernhard THALHEIM, (University of Kiel, Germany)
• Juan TRUJILLO, (University of Alicante, Spain)

Steering Committee

• Jacky AKOKA, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and INT, France)
• Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB, (Université de Versailles, France)
• Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and ESSEC, France)
• Marcela GENERO, (la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
• Jeffrey PARSONS, (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
• Geert POELS, (University of Gent, Belgium)
• Keng SIAU, (University of Nebraska, USA)
• Bernhard THALHEIM, (University of Kiel, Germany)