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<title></title></head><body><p>Dear colleague,</p>
<p>You are hereby cordially invited to participate in the 7th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2017) happening from May 8th to 12th in Antwerp, Belgium, 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 respective <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CBFRPBFQfCAU" >Call for Papers</a>.<br />
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We will have a very interesting program during the conference week. We start with the 17th CIAO! Doctoral Consortium on Monday May 8th. The titles and abstracts of the very interesting PhD thesis to be presented/discussed, as well as the list of accepted papers in the main conference are available <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CBFVPBFQfCAU" >here</a>. Topics covered include: Formalisms, Standards and Laws, Business Processes, Normalized Systems and Evolvability, Ontologies and Organisation Design.<br />
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The main conference days are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with paper sessions interleaved with case reports and poster sessions. On Tuesday we will have a Keynote presentation by Davor Meersman, General Manager of the Open and Agile Smart Cities network: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Enabling Interoperation in the Emerging Global Smart Cities Data and Services Market"</span>. On Wednesday we will have another keynote by Jan Hoogervorst, Professor at Antwerp Management School: "<em>The imperative for the employee-centric theory of organization and its significance for enterprise engineering</em>". See abstracts and bios of the speakers <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CBFJPBFQfCAU" >here</a>.<br />
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The conference papers and presentations will provide current valuable insights from both theory and practice. We reserve ample time for each paper’s presentation and productive discussion and we will have panel discussions every day to develop and deepen our scientific insights. Additionally, we will have nice social events in evenings :-)<br />
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Friday is reserved for more intense research presentations/discussions from members of our CIAO! research community, but also open to general conference participants.<br />
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So don't miss this conference benefiting from real working and productive sessions and focusing on the increasingly relevant discipline of enterprise engineering.<br />
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You can register for the conference <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0LBRoFBx1SCQ" >here</a>. To guarantee a place in the social activities/dinners you should register on or before April 26th. Registrations will still be accepted after this date.<br />
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Please forward this message to your colleagues that might be interested in participating.<br />
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If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us.<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
David Aveiro, Program co-Chair, on behalf of the EEWC 2017 Organization:<br />
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*Advisory Board*<br />
Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<br />
Jan L.G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<br />
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*Conference co-Chairs*<br />
Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium<br />
Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg<br />
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*Program co-Chairs*<br />
David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal<br />
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic<br />
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*Session Chairs*<br />
Foundational Ontologies:<br />
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br />
João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil<br />
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Organisational Design:<br />
Rodrigo Magalhães, Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait<br />
Hans Lekkerkerk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands<br />
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*Doctoral consortium co-Chairs*<br />
Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<br />
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</p>
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<h2>From the Call for Papers:</h2>
<h3>Motivation for enterprise engineering</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>The mission of enterprise engineering</h3>
<p>The CIAO! <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CB1JPBFQfCAU" >Enterprise Engineering Network</a> 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.</p>
<p>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. <br />
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.</p>
<p>To this end, the network regularly organises <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CB1NPBFQfCAU" >events</a> such as the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference and associated Doctoral Consortium to drive the promotion and development of the enterprise engineering body of knowledge.</p>
<h3>A history of rigour, relevance and an open perspective</h3>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CB1BPBFQfCAU" >TEE series</a> on Transformation and Engineering of Enterprises will be fully merged into the EEWC series.</p>
<p>The TEE series of events (including PRET, WEETM, LABEM, and AppEER) provides a practice-driven perspective on enterprise engineering, featuring papers that take real-world cases of enterprise transformations as a starting point.</p>
<p>Merging TEE into the EEWC series aims to enable a tight integration of rigour and relevance.</p>
<p>The origin of the scientific foundations of our present body of knowledge is the CIAO! Paradigm (Communication, Information, Action, Organisation) as expressed in our <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CBRoFBx1SCQ" >Enterprise Engineering Manifesto</a> and the paper: <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0LAxoFBx1SCQ" >The Discipline of Enterprise Engineering</a>. 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 <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0LABoFBx1SCQ" >technical reports</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Special Sessions</h3>
<p>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 sinergies and cooperate in the development of the EE discipline. To this end, from 2017 onwards the EEWC will include special sessions focused on lenses and/or domains as to inspire and facilitate this cooperation effort. Thus, in the EEWC 2017 we plan the following sessions:</p>
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<li>Enterprise Ontology</li>
<li>Normalized Systems</li>
<li>Foundational Ontologies</li>
<li>Organisational Design</li>
<li>Other EE topics</li>
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<p>There is one single track in the conference and accepted submissions will be assigned to one of the sessions above. A few paragraphs follow describing the domains that we are giving special focus this year: Foundational Ontologies and Organisational Design.</p>
<h4>Foundational Ontologies</h4>
<p>Foundational Ontology (FO) is a human endeavour to “cut nature at its joints” (Plato), thus enabling deep understanding of the reality. Formulating a FO means identifying the most general notions that can be used to speak and reason about all the domains. This becomes substantial in enterprise engineering, as the domains of interest of enterprises vary vastly. Thus foundational ontologies are one of the corner-stone topics of EEWC.<br />
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Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) is a modern FO that builds on philosophical roots of ontologies, cognitive science and mathematics to provide a theoretically well-founded, complete and sound FO. It has been successfully applied in various fields of enterprise engineering and computer science and is of high interest of both researchers and practitioners. The founder of UFO, Dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi together with Dr. Joao Paulo Almeida organise a FO session at EEWC this year. Papers addressing other FOs are welcome, as well.</p>
<h4>Organisational Design</h4>
<p>Organisation Design, as a field of human endeavour, has been with us for a long time… Reading Exodus you can find Jethro, father in law of Moses, consulting him on the organisation of the Jewish people. Over the years, the field has gone through a variety of definitions and approaches, but it has always stayed close to the concerns of technology in organisations, firstly through the socio-technical systems movement and later through the so-called “information processing” approach. Within this sub-area of concern, organisational structure design, is an area of expertise dealing with the division of labour and the resulting need for coordination, which involves information processing. A statement many organisation designers will agree with is ‘first organise, then automate’ and the information processing view holds it that the structure must make sure that it has the necessary information processing capacity to make things work.<br />
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A Dutch approach named modern sociotechnology or integral organisational renewal (IOR) was developed by Ulbo de Sitter (de Sitter, 1997) in the Netherlands and is little known due to the fact that all his writings were in Dutch. He advocated a design sequence in which the production structure is designed, followed by a regulatory or control structure, to end with the information structure’. Another area of concern, closer to strategic management, emphasises a turn away from the disembodied notions of contingency and structure and recognises that organisational design is fundamentally about people and relationships (Gulati et al, 2012; Fjeldstad et al, 2012). Organisational design is seen as an architecture of collaboration based on actor-oriented architectural schemes, expressed not as configurations of organisational structures but as sets of principles which actors follow when engaging in organisational relationships.<br />
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Enterprise Engineering, as a relatively new field of expertise that grew out of the IT-systems design and development world, shares many of these concerns. Whether they are called “information processing”, “organisational structure”, “interactivity modelling”, “actor-to-actor orientation” or “enterprise effectiveness”, all these concerns belong to both EE and OD. Hence, one of our aims in this session of the EEWC is to challenge participants to put forward their views on the following question “what are the limits or the areas of interface between EE and OD?”</p>
<h3>Relevant topics</h3>
<p>Topics of interest to for the EEWC include, but are not limited to:</p>
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<li>Business Process Management</li>
<li>Business Process Improvement</li>
<li>Business Process Modelling and Simulation</li>
<li>Business Rules</li>
<li>Business Rules Management</li>
<li>Collaborative, Participatory, and Interactive Modelling</li>
<li>Domain Ontologies</li>
<li>Domain Reference Ontologies</li>
<li>Enterprise Architecture</li>
<li>Enterprise Design and Implementation</li>
<li>Enterprise Transformations</li>
<li>Enterprise Governance</li>
<li>Enterprise Modelling and Simulation</li>
<li>Enterprise Ontology</li>
<li>Foundational Ontologies</li>
<li>Information System Architectures</li>
<li>Information System Ontologies</li>
<li>Information Systems Design</li>
<li>Information Systems Development</li>
<li>Interactivity Modelling</li>
<li>Modelling (cross-enterprise) Business Processes</li>
<li>Ontology Implementation</li>
<li>Organisational Design</li>
<li>Organisational Structure</li>
<li>Reference Models</li>
<li>Regulatory Compliance</li>
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<h3>Publications and Conference format</h3>
<p>The EEWC proceedings will, as always, be published in the Springer LNBIP (<a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CBBoFBx1SCQ" target="_blank">Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing</a>) series. Selected papers will also be invited to a special issue in the <a href="http://ciaonetwork.org/phplist/lt.php?id=fU0CB1VPBFQfCAU" >Organisational Design & Enterprise Engineering</a> (ODEE) journal from Springer.</p>
<p>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 paper.</p>
<p>As a result of the merging of the TEE with the EEWC, we will also accept case reports with a limit of 15 pages. Info on what we intend with case reports is available here: <a href="http://www.tee-series.org/case-reports">http://www.tee-series.org/case-reports</a>.</p>
<p>To foster community building and more sharing and discussion regarding research in our domains, this year we will also introduce the innovation in the EEWC of accepting some papers as <strong>short papers</strong> and also have a <strong>poster session</strong>. Submissions accepted as short papers will be published in the proceedings with a reduction of the original submission to 8 pages in the camera ready version. Case reports will be officially be published on CEUR.</p>
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<h2>Chairs</h2>
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<h3><strong>Advisory Board</strong></h3>
<p>Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<br />
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</p>
<h3><strong>Conference Chairs</strong></h3>
<p>Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium<br />
Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg</p>
<h3><strong>Program Chairs</strong></h3>
<p>David Aveiro, University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal<br />
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic</p>
<h3><strong>Session Chairs</strong></h3>
<h4><strong>Foundation Ontologies</strong></h4>
<p>Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br />
João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil</p>
<h4><strong>Organizational Design</strong></h4>
<p>Rodrigo Magalhes, Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait<br />
Hans Lekkerkerk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands</p>
<h3><strong>Organizing Chair</strong></h3>
<p>Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium</p>
<h3>Program Committee</h3>
<p>Alberto Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Carlos Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br />
Duarte Gouveia, University of Madeira, Portugal<br />
Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia<br />
Fernanda Araujo Baiao, UNIRIO, Brazil<br />
Florian Matthes, Technical University Munich, Germany<br />
Frank Harmsen, Maastricht University and Ernst & Young Advisory, The Netherlands<br />
Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium<br />
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium<br />
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br />
Gil Regev, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland<br />
Graham McLeod, University of Cape Town and Inspired.org, South Africa<br />
Hans Mulder, University of Antwerp, Belgium<br />
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<br />
Jan Hoogervorst, Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands<br />
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<br />
Joop de Jong, Mprise, The Netherlands<br />
Jose Tribolet, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Joseph Barjis, Institute of Engineering and Management, San Francisco, USA<br />
Julio Nardi, Federal Institute of Espírito Santo, Brazil<br />
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan<br />
Linda Terlouw, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<br />
Luiz Olavo Bonino, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />
Marcela Vegetti, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina<br />
Martin Cloutier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada<br />
Martin Op ’t Land, Capgemini, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Belgium<br />
Mauricio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil<br />
Miguel Mira Da Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Monika Kaczmarek, University Duisburg Essen, Germany<br />
Nelson King Khalifa, University, United Arab Emirates<br />
Niek Pluijmert, INQA Quality Consultants, The Netherlands<br />
Peter Loos, University of Saarland, Germany<br />
Petr Kremen, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic<br />
Philip Huysmans, University of Antwerp, Belgium<br />
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil<br />
Robert Lagerström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<br />
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic<br />
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland<br />
Rodrigo Magalhaes, Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait<br />
Rony Flatscher, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria<br />
Sérgio Guerreiro, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Sanetake Nagayoshi, Shizuoka University, Japan<br />
Steven van Kervel, Formetis, The Netherlands<br />
Sybren de Kinderen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br />
Tatiana Poletaeva, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia<br />
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden</p>
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