Please download here the call for papers in PDF format.
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the CENTERIS’2010 - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems – aligning technology, organizations and people,
to be held in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
This is the place where, from 20 to 22 October 2010, under the leitmotiv of Enterprise Information Systems, academics, scientists, IT/IS professionals, scientists, managers and
solution providers from all over the world will have the opportunity to share experiences, bring new ideas, debate issues, introduce the latest developments in the field.
CENTERIS’2010 will address the largely multidisciplinary field embraced by the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), from the social, organizational and technological perspectives.
The 3-day conference follows an innovative format, previewing scientific sessions, tutorial and technical sessions, and simultaneously exhibitions by solutions providers and
product presentations.
There will also be a social program that will enable participants to get to know each one and informally exchange information, contacts and experiences, discuss projects, and
incubate partnerships.
You are invited to consider submitting a paper in one of the conference topics.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend and enhance the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books.
All accepted full papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag in a book of the CCIS series
(Communications in Computer and Information Science), which is listed in the ISI proceedings index.
Abstracts of full papers and posters will be published in a CD-ROM with ISBN.
Authors of a selection of papers will invited for enhancing their papers for inclusion in a book to be published by IGI-Global, to be released by early 2011.
Depending on the number of high quality papers accepted, the Organization can consider the edition of two books, instead of one.
Themes/Recommended topics:
The conference intends to attract original, pertinent and relevant contributions on the technological,
organizational and social dimensions of the largely multidisciplinary field of Enterprise Information
Systems, which includes ERP, CRM, eMarketplaces, extended ERP, etc.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
1.- The technological dimension, addressing:
- Enterprise information systems' design, application, implementation, and impact;
- Competitiveness and market share among solution providers;
- In-house development, off-the-shelf solutions and open source solutions;
- The new market of open source solutions and services delivery;
- Reliability, maintenance and dependency on solution and services suppliers;
- IT/IS (out)sourcing;
- Parameterization and flexible adaptation;
- Information systems integration and enterprise information integration;
- ERP integration of functions and virtual/extended/networked enterprises;
- Management of legacy systems;
- EIS in SMEs;
- EIS in large companies;
- eBusiness;
- Electronic Marketplace solutions;
- Enterprise portals;
- Business Process Modelling;
- Global and regional realities of EIS adoption;
- Strategic use of EIS;
- EIS subsystems (CRM, SCM, etc.);
- IT management;
- Emerging technologies;
- Information systems architectures;
- Information systems for manufacturing.
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2.- The organizational aspect, including:
- Enterprise architecture design, modelling and integration;
- Collaboration and networked and virtual organizations;
- The impact on the internal status quo;
- Problems of information sharing and migration of processes;
- Management of change;
- Information systems for sustainable economy.
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3.- The social aspect, covering:
- The resistance to change;
- IT human resources;
- Trust and confidence in new technology;
- Training needs.
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Submission Procedure:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.eiswatch.org) until March 15, 2010.
Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis, and authors will be notified of the review process results by May 31.
Authors of accepted papers can receive recommendations to revise their manuscript according to the reviewers’ comments and should submit the revised version until June 21, 2010.
Paper format:
Manuscripts must be written in English. Each manuscript should not exceed 10 pages considering the format available for download at the conference webpage (http://centeris.eiswatch.org).
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission: March 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2010
Revised version: June 21, 2010
Please download here the call for papers in PDF format.
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Important dates
Revised version/camera ready: Deadline June 21, 2010
For every accepted paper or poster, at least one full registration fee must be paid by July 12, 2010
CENTERIS News
Registrations will start next June 16.
Forms are available (here)...
The submission guidelines for final versions (camera ready) of full papers and posters are available
(here)...
Proceedings (full papers) to be published by Springer-Verlag in a book of the CCIS series
(Communications in Computer and Information Science), which is listed in the ISI proceedings index.

As a result of the effort to strenght the networking with the research community, this year CENTERIS will have an associated conference - CAPSI - the conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems.

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According with the reviewers’ recommendations, authors of CENTERIS'2010 selected papers will be invited to enhance the paper for publication in a book or a journal
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The CENTERIS'2009 photo gallery is now available (here)...
The list of CENTERIS'2009 best papers selected for publication in a book/journal is available (here)...
News
CENTERIS'2009 IN NUMBERS:
- 185 authors from 5 continents
- 28 countries represented
- 56 papers
- 11 posters
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