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**Ninth Enterprise Engineering Working Conference**
May 20th - 24th 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
Important Dates:
January 28: Abstract submission (not mandatory*)
February 11: 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
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(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
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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
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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
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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
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, 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
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and the paper: The Discipline of Enterprise Engineering
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. 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
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.
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
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) 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
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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
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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. Case reports and posters will be
officially published on CEUR
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. More information on the EEWC Forum 2019 available at its
respective web
page
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.
**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
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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**
Abstract submission:
January 28, 2019
(not mandatory*)
Paper submission:
February 11, 2019
Acceptance notification:
March 11, 2019
Camera ready
March 25, 2019
* however please submit your abstract as soon as possible to
facilitate
review assignment preparation
**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 (to be updated)
Alberto Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Pascoa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
Duarte Gouveia, University of Madeira, Portugal
Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Florian Matthes, Technical University Munich, Germany
Frank Harmsen, Maastricht University and Ernst & Young
Advisory, The
Netherlands
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Graham McLeod, University of Cape Town and Inspired.org, South
Africa
Hans Mulder, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jan Hoogervorst, Sogeti Netherlands, The Netherlands
Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Joao Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Esprito Santo, Brazil
Jose Tribolet, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Joseph Barjis, Institute of Engineering and Management, San
Francisco, CA,
USA
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Marcello Bax, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Martin Op 't Land, Capgemini, The Netherlands; University of
Antwerp,
Belgium
Mauricio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Miguel Mira Da Silva, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Monika Kaczmarek, University Duisburg Essen, Germany
Niek Pluijmert, INQA Quality Consultants, The Netherlands
Peter Loos, University of Saarland, Germany
Petr Kremen, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Philip Huysmans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Rony Flatscher, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien, Austria
Sérgio Guerreiro, INESC and University of Lisbon, Portugal
Steven van Kervel, Formetis, The Netherlands
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The
Netherlands
Sybren de Kinderen, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tatiana Poletaeva, Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod,
Russia
Tiago Prince, Sales University of Trento, Italy
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden
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