The event is organised by the Institute of Informatics in hommage to his founder, professor François Bodart, on the occasion of his designation as professor emeritus. The topics of the workshop and of the academic session are an expression of his constant concern during his academic activity: the critical analysis of informatics technologies in the context of the problems of our Society.

Until quite recently the IS of private or public organizations were mainly focused on the processes (transactional and managerial) related to the components of their added value chain or their process chain: they were “organization centric”. But we see more and more the emergence of new IS trying to cope with the behavior of persons in their private as well as in their professional life: they should be “user centric”. These new IS are known under the generic name of the so-called “e-systems” with their constantly growing naming specialization,- under the marketing pressure-, in e-commerce, e-business, m-business, e-government, e-learning, e-mobility, tele-working, e-health, e-legal, e-security, e-entertainment,…
The workshop, organized by the Institute of informatics, would address three main topics related to these “e-Information Systems” :

- The evaluation of the utility : are they new sources of cultural and social welfare, are they new sources of productivity and economic growth, what are the ontologies to model the needs, what is the applicability of the existing methods of requirement engineering, what are the limitations of a technology pushed approach…?

- The analysis of the usability : how to design usable products and services for largely heterogeneous populations of users both at the level of their profiles and their context of usage, how to cope with the variety of competing technologies and their permanent evolution, are Usability Labs applicable, is Web Usage Mining efficient…?

-The challenge of the control of the complexity : technical complexity is due on the one hand to the networking of distributed but autonomous applications and on the other hand to the very necessity to produce services very simple to use; business complexity can be characterised in terms of development strategy and business modeling. Are the methods of software engineering adequate to solve the challenge…?