[agents] CfP: 13th Enterprise Design and Engineering Working Conference - EDEWC 2023 - November 27 and 28, Vienna, Austria

[EDE Working Conference]

**Call for Papers**

**13th Enterprise Design and Engineering Working Conference - EDEWC 2023 -
November 27 and 28, Vienna, Austria**

We are happy to inform you that the 13th Enterprise Design & Engineering
Working Conference (EDEWC 2023) will be held in Vienna, Austria, co-located
with the 16th Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling
(PoEM)
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.

The conference (and the supporting research network) has been renamed from
Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC) to EDEWC (Enterprise
Design & Engineering Working Conference (EDEWC), including the notion of
enterprise design in the title and reflecting a broadening of scope. This
broadened scope mirrors the rapid increase in digitization of enterprises
in the last decade. This has resulted in a substantial change in the nature
and structure of enterprises, which was the main focus of the Enterprise
Engineering Working Conference (EEWC). Driven by a desire to make
enterprises more efficient in the production of a widening range of
services and products, combined with a need to become more agile and
resilient due to increased global competition, the balance between the
social and technical aspects has now shifted substantially towards the
latter.

As part of this evolution, (traditional) information systems have now been
supplemented with, or even supplanted by, advanced systems involving IoT,
Big Data, Digital Twins, and AI, as well as (model-driven) no-code/low-code
platforms. This has resulted in the emergence of “digital enterprises”,
in which information systems no longer merely provide a passive mirror of
reality but have become a primary driver of business activities. In such
enterprises, information systems tend to not only support key business
decision making, but increasingly take these decisions in a
(semi-)autonomous way that shapes and innovates business reality rather
than only mirroring it. These technical evolutions have also influenced the
human and organizational side of enterprises. Concurrently with this
evolution, the organizational structure of some enterprises has become
increasingly formal, with strict governance, risk, and compliance
principles and procedures in place which are regularly audited at
unprecedented scale, whereas others have thrived as ultra-agile start-ups
with informal new and flat adhocracies. The combination of both of these
evolutions constitute an unprecedented challenge that needs to be addressed
in a systematic way with both rigor and relevance, which is reflected in
the shift of focus from EEWC to EDEWC. 

In the context of such complex and agile interconnected socio-technical
systems, we believe there is a general need for a new holistic and
integrated approach to manage the development of enterprises. This entails
integrating different fields and approaches, including enterprise
governance, enterprise architecture management, organizational design,
information systems engineering, software engineering, and change
management, among others, as well as specializations towards specific
aspects or concerns, such as human resources management, business process
management, risk and compliance management, and quality management. 

Within the scope of enterprise design and engineering, conceptual modeling
and ontologies are considered of significant importance, as these allow an
implementation-agnostic, semantically rich, and human-aligned encoding of
enterprise systems and knowledge. It is also assumed that the
implementation of (conceptual) modeling and ontologies in mission-critical
platforms will be crucial, similar as with the link between these models
and the actual socio-technical implementation of the enterprise. All these
models and implementations, including the traceability between both, need
to be highly evolvable at the product and design process-level to deal with
unseen rates of change. Therefore, contributions on (conceptual) modeling,
ontologies and their implementation and evolution, are welcomed, especially
when a combination of theory and empirical validation is presented.

**Submissions**

Guidelines, page limits, submission details and relevant topics are
available for scientific long and short
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papers, case reports
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, tooling
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papers and doctoral
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papers. The four types of submissions are described shortly below:

Scientific papers share innovative research issues and practical
experiences, mixing rigor and relevance, to facilitate profound discussions
on the topics of EDEWC
Case Reports describe real world cases. These papers typically take a
“practitioner's” perspective, and tend not to use formal scientific
protocols. These papers provide interesting starting points for discussion
and reflection during the conference, typically in the industry
track/sessions
Tooling papers present modeling tools that have been or are being developed
in an enterprise design and engineering environment
Doctoral papers present ongoing Phd research work in the dedicated Doctoral
Consortium session of EDEWC

It is necessary that at least one of the authors of accepted papers
physically attends EDEWC and presents the accepted paper.

Papers submitted in the scientific category that do not fully meet the
criteria of a full scientific paper might be accepted for presentation and
publication as a forum paper/case report or poster paper, depending on
their content, quality, and reviews. Poster papers are considered to
present innovative research work, which is still at a relatively early
stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. Forum papers
will be presented in dedicated sessions of the EDEWC Program.

All papers must follow the Springer LNBIP format and should be restricted
to the page limits indicated for each submission type, including all text,
figures, references and appendices. The review process is double-blind
except for doctoral and tooling papers. So papers not of these two types
must be submitted in PDF format having no author information. Submissions
are made through our Easychair conference management system
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. Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be under review
elsewhere. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at
Springer LNBIP
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web page. Submissions not conforming to the LNBIP format or exceeding the
maximum pages will be rejected without review.

**Topics**

Contributions in the broad range of topics mentioned below are welcomed,
with special attention to work related to (conceptual) modeling, ontologies
and their implementation and evolution, particularly when a combination of
theory and empirical validation is presented (see above). Topics of
interest to for the EDEWC include, but are not limited to:

Specific aspects of enterprises:

Business processes
Business rules
Information systems
Software architectures

Cross cutting concerns for enterprises:

FAIR principles on good data management
Regulatory compliance
Sustainability
Cyber risks
Governance
Coherence
Resilience & antifragility
Traceability (between models and implementations)
Evolvability/Agility in all its dimensions, including (technical and
business) scalability

Specific activities within enterprise design and engineering:

Architecture
Design
Transformation
Creation & use of reference models
Tool support for enterprise design and engineering
Collaborative & participatory modeling & design
Implementation of conceptual modeling and ontologies, a.o.
machine-actionability and code generation in new platforms (eg. Blockchain,
…)

Foundations of enterprise design and engineering:

Cybernetics
Complex adaptive systems
Foundations of (conceptual) modeling
Fact-based thinking & modeling
Enterprise ontology
Normalized systems theory
Foundational ontologies
Design and engineering methods for enterprises and their (computerized)
information systems, preferably with a focus on agility/evolvability in
realistic contexts
Integration of methods, aimed at amongst others, finding synergies between
methods.
Domain-specific methods
Human aspects of engineering enterprises, including
usability/understandability of modeling

Applications of enterprise design and engineering

Case studies in enterprise design and engineering
Application of enterprise design and engineering in specific sectors /
industries
Relationship between rigorous engineering and design science methodology
(theory) and best practices/heuristics from practice

The goal remains to gather academics and practitioners in order to share
innovative research issues and practical experiences, balancing rigor and
relevance, as well as to facilitate profound discussions on the discipline
of enterprise design and engineering. More specifically, the plan is to
have each paper go through the following process:

Each submitted paper (via EasyChair) abiding the specifications will be
reviewed by three reviewers. The reviewers will be asked to recommend
acceptance of the paper as (full or short) paper in Springer EDEWC
proceedings; or as a paper in EDEWC Forum CEUR proceedings. Papers that are
selected as Short Papers for the Springer EDEWC proceedings may still be
accepted as full papers, provided they are considerably improved (see point
3).
The authors will be requested to provide an updated version of their papers
before the conference, taking into account the review comments, to be
presented at the conference, by at least one of the authors. The papers
(and presentations) will be discussed in more detail.
Immediately after the conference, the chairs will take a decision on which
short papers will be promoted to full and communicate it to the authors.
All authors are then required to submit an updated version of their paper
taking into account the discussions at the conference and chairs' feedback.
Papers accepted as full will have to include at least 3 pages of additional
content.

**Important Dates**

Deadline for submission of abstracts*:
September 11

Submission deadline for initial versions of papers:
September 25

Notification of acceptance (full or short):
October 9

EDEWC Conference:
November 27-28

Post-conference versions of papers due:
December 18 

Final notification of acceptance to post-proceedings:
January 15

Camera ready:
January 29

* not mandatory, but please submit an abstract as soon as possible so we
can better organize the review process.

**Proceedings**

As in earlier years, the proceedings containing the scientific papers will
be published as post-conference proceedings in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing
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(LNBIP).

Case reports, tooling papers, doctoral papers and general submissions
accepted as poster papers will be submitted for publication online in CEUR
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as part of EDEWC Forum post-conference proceedings.

The use of post-conference proceedings enables the authors to update their
submissions based on the feedback from reviewers, as well as the
discussions during the conference, which truly underlines the working
conference character of EDEWC.

**EDEWC Forum**

The EDEWC Forum is a place within the conference for presentation and
discussion of new and preliminary ideas, industry case reports and case
studies from practice and tools related to enterprise design and
engineering. Intended to serve as an interactive platform, the Forum aims
at the presentation of emerging new topics and controversial positions, as
well as demonstration of innovative systems, tools, applications and
reports of application of enterprise design and engineering methods and
tools. The Forum sessions at the EDEWC conference aim to facilitate the
interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas among presenters and
participants and integrate knowledge of academic and practitioner
perspectives.

**Organization**

**PC co-chairs:**

Cristine Griffo, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Monika Malinova Mandelburger, TU Wien, Austria
Sérgio Guerreiro, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal

**Steering Committee:**

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
Henderik Proper, TU Wien, Austria
Mark Mulder, TEEC2, Netherlands

**Program Committee (to be confirmed/updated):**

Alberto Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Mendes, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Páscoa, Portuguese Air Force Academy, Portugal
Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Florian Matthes, Technical University Munich, Germany
Fernanda Baião, Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil
Frederick Gailly, Ghent University
Geert Poels, University of Gent, Belgium
Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Bolzano / Bozen, Italy
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
Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
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
João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
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
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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
Pontus Johnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Robert Lagerström, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Rony Flatscher, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,
Austria
Sanetake Nagayoshi, Shizuoka University, Japan
Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen, Germany
Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Steven van Kervel, Formetis, The Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Sybren de Kinderen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Tatyana Poletaeva, INSA/LITIS, France
Tiago Prince Sales, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden


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