Welcome

Since the early 1980s, the IFIP WG8.1 conferences have provided a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences within the field of information systems development methods. After the successful conferences in Atlanta in 1996 and in Kanazawa in 2002, it is now time to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in and give a state of the art overview in Method Engineering.

The WG8.1 Working Conference will be held in the beautiful Lake of Geneva area in Switzerland. The conference programme will feature invited talks, paper presentations and interactive panel sessions. Besides, tutorials will be arranged to learn about the basics of Method Engineering. The format of a working conference allows for extensive paper discussions featured by discussant reviews in plenary sessions.

We invite all researchers and practitioners active in the area of Method Engineering to contribute to this unique event. If you have any ideas or suggestions for this working conference, please contact the organizers.

Looking forward to meeting you in Geneva,

Jolita Ralyté	Brian Henderson-Sellers	Sjaak Brinkkemper

This event is sponsored by IFIP Working Group 8.1 Design and Evaluation of Information Systems.