Ninth Enterprise Engineering Working Conference

May 20th – 24th 2019, Lisbon, Portugal

NOTES:

• our conference switched to post-conference proceedings and there is a second window for submissions now open, see all new dates below
• we have the pleasure to inform that we will have Nicola Guarino as keynote speaker at our conference – title and abstract of his talk will soon be available
• do check also our open calls for the Doctoral Consortium and Forum/Industry Track integrated in our conference

Important Dates (2nd submission window):

March 24: Abstract submission*

April 7: Paper submission

Experience the benefits of a Working Conference featuring an integrated Industry Track and a Doctoral Consortium, in the city of Lisbon, providing inspiration and conditions for an interesting program with significant scientific advancement.

The 2019 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2019) will be the ninth working conference addressing the emerging field of Enterprise Engineering, having as goal to gather academics and practitioners in order to share innovative research issues and practical experiences, mixing rigour and relevance, and to facilitate profound discussions on the issues put forward in the next sections of this Call for Papers.

The proceedings of the working conference will, as always, be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP).

Please distribute this Call for Papers among your colleagues, and/or mailing lists you belong to, that may be possibly interested in this conference.

* please submit your abstract as soon as possible to facilitate review assignment preparation

Motivation for enterprise engineering

Modern enterprises face a strong pressure to increase agility and competitiveness, to operate on the global market, and to engage in manifold alliances. However, many strategic initiatives in enterprises fail, meaning that enterprises are unable to gain success from their strategy. One of the identified reasons for such failures is the lack of coherence and consistency among the various components of an enterprise. At the same time, the need to operate as a unified and integrated whole is becoming increasingly important. Currently, these challenges are dominantly addressed from a functional or managerial perspective, as advocated by the management and organisational sciences, and as implemented by traditional programs in business schools. Such knowledge is indeed necessary for managing an enterprise, but it is insufficient for bringing about changes in a fully systematic and integrated way. To do that, one needs to take a constructional or engineering perspective.

In addition, both organisations and software applications are complex systems, prone to entropy. This means that in the course of time, the costs of bringing about similar changes increase in a way that is known as combinatorial explosion. Entropy can be reduced and managed effectively through modular design based on atomic elements.

Lastly, the individual persons in an enterprise, in cooperation, are ultimately responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the enterprise. They are also collectively responsible for the evolution of the enterprise, in order to meet new challenges. We believe these responsibilities can be born in a much more effective way if members have an appropriate knowledge and an effective awareness of the enterprise given by a sound engineering approach put forward by a full-fledged scientific discipline.

The mission of enterprise engineering

The CIAO! Enterprise Engineering Network is a community of academics and practitioners who strive to contribute to the development of the discipline of Enterprise Engineering (EE), and to apply it in practice. The long term aim is to develop a holistic and general systems theory based understanding on how to (re)design and run enterprises effectively.

The ambition is therefore to gather and develop a consistent and coherent set of theories, models and associated methods that: enable enterprises to reflect, in a systematic way, on how to realise improvements; and assist them, in practice, in achieving their aspirations.

In doing so, sound empirical and scientific foundations should underlie all efforts and all organisational aspects that are relevant should be considered, while combining already existing knowledge from the scientific fields of information systems, software engineering, management science, organisational sciences, as well as philosophy, semiotics and sociology, amongst others.

To this end, the network regularly organises events such as the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference and associated Doctoral Consortium to drive the promotion and development of the enterprise engineering body of knowledge.

A history of rigour, relevance and an open perspective

The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC) series emerged out of the CIAO! workshop and doctoral consortium held from 2008 until 2010, after which they transitioned into the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC).

The EEWC regularly featured an industrial track. To institutionalise the interaction between the practice of enterprise engineering, and enterprise transformation in general, it was decided that as of 2017 the TEE series on Transformation and Engineering of Enterprises would be fully merged into the EEWC series.

The TEE series of events (including PRET, LABEM, and AppEER) provided a practice-driven perspective on enterprise engineering, featuring papers taking real-world cases of enterprise transformations as a starting point. Merging TEE into the EEWC series aimed to enable a tight integration of rigour and relevance and constitutes the EEWC Forum, integrated in the conference week.

The origin of the scientific foundations of our present body of knowledge is the CIAO! Paradigm (Communication, Information, Action, Organisation) as expressed in our Enterprise Engineering Manifesto and the paper: The Discipline of Enterprise Engineering. In this paradigm, organisation is considered to emerge in human communication, through the intermediate roles of information and action. Based on the CIAO! Paradigm, several theories have been developed, and still are being proposed. They are published as technical reports.

Considering theories or sets of theories as lenses to see and understand reality we can say that two main lenses have emerged out of the CIAO! network efforts: the Enterprise Ontology theories and the Normalized Systems theory, both with relevant results in practice.

Organisations and their enterprises, being socio-technical systems, are the result of a social dialogue among the social individuals that make up the organisation and the two currently identified lenses are, so we certainly expect, not enough. More lenses are needed and the current ones are open to extensions and/or improvements.

The CIAO! community has always taken the view that (1) rigour and relevance, and (2) a shared understanding (based on a shared “meta ontology”, such as the EE paradigm) is a crucial element in ensuring effective discussions within the community. In adding/extending lenses, new members are expected to underline these qualities as well. In adding/extending lenses, it is expected that the “meta ontology” will evolve/extend based on new, shared, insights.

Dedicated Sessions

Having in mind the spirit put forward in the previous section, the EEWC aims to expand its community and reach out to other communities to find synergies and cooperate in the development of the EE discipline. To this end, from 2017 onwards the EEWC includes special/dedicated sessions focused on lenses and/or domains as to inspire and facilitate this cooperation effort. Thus, in the EEWC 2019 we plan to give focus to the following domains:

• Enterprise Ontology
• Normalized Systems
• Foundational Ontologies
• Fact Based Modeling
• Enterprise Interoperability
• Standards and Policies in sectors/domains:
  • Smart Cities
  • Construction
  • Supply Chain Management
• Other EE topics

There is one single track in the conference and accepted submissions will be assigned to one of the sessions above.

Relevant topics

Topics of interest to for the EEWC include, but are not limited to:

• Business Process Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process Modelling and Simulation
• Business Rules
• Business Rules Management
• Collaborative, Participatory, and Interactive Modelling
• Domain Ontologies
• Domain Reference Ontologies
• Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Design and Implementation
• Enterprise Transformations
• Enterprise Governance
• Enterprise Modelling and Simulation
• Enterprise Ontology
• Foundational Ontologies
• Fact Based Modeling
• Information System Architectures
• Information System Ontologies
• Information Systems Design
• Information Systems Development
• Interactivity Modelling
• Modelling (cross-enterprise) Business Processes
• Ontology Implementation
• Organisational Design
• Organisational Structure
• Reference Models
• Regulatory Compliance
• Standards and Policies for Industry Sectors

Publications and Conference format

The EEWC proceedings will, as always, be published in the Springer LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing) series.

We are looking for papers on current or recently finished research initiatives/projects as well as papers from practitioners. Based on our motivating experience of the previous working conferences, the seventh EEWC is planned to be a real working conference, providing ample time for profound discussions following the paper presentations. Therefore, normally 40 minutes slots are planned for each accepted full paper, with a maximum limit of 15 pages. Since the EEWC 2017 we now accept publication (also in the Springer proceedings) and presentation of short papers with a page limit of 9 pages to be adapted from the original submission with page limit of 15 pages.

As a result of the merging of the TEE Series with the EEWC and also to foster community building and more sharing and discussion regarding preliminary research and reporting on practice in our domains, we introduced in 2017 the EEWC Forum where case reports are accepted, as well as posters invited from the submissions to the EEWC not accepted as full or short papers but with interesting contents to discuss. Accepted case reports and posters will be submitted for publication online in CEUR proceedings. More information on the EEWC Forum 2019 available at its respective web page.

Submission

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNBIP format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding 15 pages will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at Springer LNBIP web page mentioned above.

Three to five keywords characterising the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract.

For the actual submission, please go to our Easychair conference web page and sign-up or sign-in, submit your abstract and upload your paper taking in account the dates specified below.

Important note: since the review process is as double-blind as possible, please make sure that your names and affiliations are not listed in the paper submitted for review.

At the same time, to enable reviewers to verify sources/citations, please always provide full citation details, even to your own papers, but in a neutral/anonymous way,

Important Dates

* however please submit your abstract as soon as possible to facilitate review assignment preparation
** second window of submission
*** EEWC 2019 will publish post-conference proceedings

Chairs

General Conference Chair

José Tribolet, IST / INESC and Transformer Lda, Lisboa, Portugal

Conference Chair

José Borbinha, IST / INESC ID, Lisboa, Portugal

EEWC Forum Chair

Pedro Sousa, IST / Link Consulting Lda, Lisboa, Portugal

Program Chairs

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Organization Chairs

Carlos Mendes, IST / DIGIPRISE Lda
Sérgio Guerreiro, IST / INESC ID, Lisboa, Portugal

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sérgio Guerreiro, IST / INESC ID, Lisboa, Portugal

Program Committee

Alberto Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Mendes, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Páscoa, Portuguese Air Force Academy, Portugal
Duarte Gouveia, University of Madeira, Portugal
Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Florian Matthes, Technical University Munich, Germany
Frederick Gailly, Ghent University
Geert Poels, University of Gent, Belgium
Gil Regev, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Graham McLeod, McLeod, inspired.org, South Africa and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hans Mulder, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jorge Sanz, Computing and Business School, National University of Singapore
José Tribolet, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Joseph Barjis, San Jose State University, USA
Julio Nardi, NEMO/IFES, Brazil
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Marcela Vegeti, CONICET, Argentina
Marcello Bax, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Martin Op ‘t Land, Capgemini, The Netherlands and University of Antwerp, Belgium
Maurício Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Miguel Mira da Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Loos, University of Saarland, Germany
Petr Kremen, Babylon Health, UK and Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Philip Huysmans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Pnina Soffer, MIS department, Haifa University, Israel
Robert Lagerström, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Rony Flatscher, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Sanetake Nagayoshi, Shizuoka University, Japan
Steven van Kervel, Formetis, The Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences
Sybren de Kinderen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Tatyana Poletaeva, INSA/LITIS, France
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden

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