3rd International Workshop on Governance Risk and Compliance – Applications in Information Systems (GRCIS’10)

http://www.grcis.com

7 June, 2010
Hammamet, Tunisia
In conjunction with CAiSE’10

BACKGROUND
The importance of governance and associated issues of compliance and risk management is well recognized in enterprise systems. This importance has dramatically increased over the last few years as a result of numerous events that led to some of the largest scandals in corporate history. The governance, risk and compliance market is estimated to be worth over $32 billion. Tool support for governance, risk and compliance related initiatives is provided by over 100 software vendors, however, while the tools have on average tripled in price since 2003, they are often insufficient to meet organizational needs. At the same time, there is an increasing complexity in the facilitation of compliant business processes, which stems from an increasing number of regulations, frequent and dynamic changes, as well as shared processes and services executing in highly decentralized environments.

In the age of outsourcing, dynamic business networks, and global commerce, it is inevitable that organizations will need to develop methods, tools and techniques to design, engineer, and assess processes and services that meet regulatory, standard and contractual obligations. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) can be expected to play a significant part in several applications. This area is emerging as a critical and challenging area of research and innovation. It introduces, among others, the need for new or adapted modeling approaches for compliance requirements, extension of process and service modeling and execution frameworks for compliance and risk management, and detection of policy violations.

This workshop provides a forum for researchers from diverse backgrounds to contribute to this emerging area and make a consolidated contribution in the form of new and extended methods that address the challenges of governance, risk and compliance in information systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics covered by the workshop will include at least the following:

* Policy definition and enforcement
* Compliant service and process design
* Noncompliant process identification
* Risk management
* Visualization and simulation of risk in process models
* Governance processes
* Integration and effectuation of multiple regulatory standards
* Compliance, risk and tolerance metrics
* Organizational structures to support compliance
* Separation of duties/Separation of rights
* Decision tracing
* Data provenance and lineage
* Work tracking
* Violation detection
* Technologies for compliance assurance
* Applications, case studies and use cases

Submitted papers will be subjected to a double-blind review process and evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution, and relation to previous research. Position and survey papers are also welcome. The proceedings will be published as online CEUR Workshop Proceedings. We are currently negotiating a Special Issue in a high quality international journal for selected best papers from the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2010
Camera ready: April 15, 2010
Workshop: June 7, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. As the review process is double-blind, papers must not include author details. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. It is expected that at least one author of each accepted paper will register for and attend the workshop. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system found at http://www.easychair.org/
conferences/?conf=grcis2010.

CO-CHAIRS
Dr Marta Indulska
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia

Dr Michael zur Muehlen
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

Dr Shazia Sadiq
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia

CONTACT
Email: grcis@business.uq.edu.au

AMCIS 2010 Call for Papers

Business Process Management and Innovation mini-track

Over the past 15 years attitudes toward business processes have changed significantly within organizations. What started with Total Quality Management initiatives and continued through Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects of the early1990s has evolved into a comprehensive management practice that permeates both the business and the technology side of organizations. Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as methods and tools surrounding the definition, implementation, and improvement of lateral processes in organizations. BPM tools and techniques play a significant role in both intra-organizational and inter-organizational process design. As BPM continues to gain importance in today’s organization, an increasing number of studies detail efficiency, effectiveness and agility improvements resulting from process management initiatives. Innovative industrial implementations and applications of BPM methods and techniques are of much interest today, given their potential for bringing significant gains to the enterprise through the automated coordination of activities, process participants and the integration of applications.

This mini-track seeks contributions that discuss the management of business processes as well as technologies for process automation. We encourage submissions from both a managerial as well as a technical perspective.

Selected best papers from the mini-track will be invited to the BPM special issue of the Australian Journal for Information Systems (AJIS). For further information about AMCIS2010, its tracks and mini-tracks, please see: http://www.amcis2010.org

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: February 26, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2010
Camera Ready deadline: April 26, 2010
Conference: August 12-15, 2010

Enquiries:
amcis2010.bpm AT gmail.com