Third International Workshop on
Quality of Information Systems QoIS

Theme and Objectives

Quality assurance is a growing research domain within the Information Systems (IS) and Conceptual Modeling (CM) disciplines. Ongoing research on quality in IS and CM is highly diverse and encompasses theoretical aspects including quality definition and quality models, and practical/empirical aspects such as the development of methods, approaches and tools for quality measurement and improvement. Research can be general and conceptual in nature or focus on specific application domains, such as web application quality, data warehouse quality, requirements model quality, model transformations quality, etc.

The aim of the workshop is twofold. Firstly, to bring together researchers and industry developers working on various aspects of information systems quality, in order to exchange research ideas and results and discuss about them. Secondly, to promote research on information systems and conceptual model quality to the broader conceptual modeling research community attending ER 2007.

Particular topics of interest related to IS and CM quality include, but are not limited to:

• Quality constructs and models
• Quality measures and instruments
• Quality ontologies
• Validation of quality models, measures and instruments
• Methodological issues of research on IS and CM quality
• Method and tool support for improving and monitoring quality
• Integration of quality assurance in model-driven development
• Quality of requirements engineering artifacts and processes
• Quality of models and meta-models
• Quality of ontologies and reference models
• Data and meta-data quality
• Information and system quality
• Quality of queries
• Quality of conceptual modeling languages
• Ontological analysis of conceptual modeling grammars
• Pattern-based analysis of conceptual modeling grammars
• Cost/benefit analysis of quality assurance processes
• Quality assurance practices : case studies and experiences
• Quality with respect to specific types of modeling such as data warehouse modeling, workflow modeling, business process modeling, enterprise modeling, requirements modeling, ontology modeling, domain modeling, navigation modeling, user interface modeling, etc.
• Quality with respect to specific types of applications such as data warehouses, web based information systems, ontology-driven systems, Semantic Web applications, business applications, intra-enterprise systems, inter-enterprise systems, etc.
• Quality with respect to specific application domains such as health sector, logistics, public sector, financial sector, manufacturing, services, e-commerce, software, 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 ER2007 Workshop volume, planned for publication by Springer in their LNCS series.

Papers should be submitted using the workshop web site. Intentions to submit should be notified by email (title, authors and abstract) : qois@cnam.fr.

QoIS Schedule

Paper abstract submission: April 30, 2007
Full paper submission: May 6, 2007
Author Notification: June 20, 2007
Camera-ready paper submission: July 6, 2007

Workshop chairs:

Program committee

• Jacky AKOKA, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers and INT, France)
• Laure BERTI, (IRISA, France)
• Andrew BURTON-JONES, (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Tiziana CATARCI, (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers and ESSEC, France)
• Corinne CAUVET, (Universite Aix-Marseille 3, France)
• Marcela GENERO, (la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
• Paul JOHANNESSON, (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Jacques LE MAITRE, (Universite 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, (Universite Paris XII ? IUT Senart Fontainebleau)
• Houari SAHRAOUI,(Universite de Montreal, 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 Metiers and INT, France)
• Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB, (Universite de Versailles, France)
• Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU, (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers 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)