CfP: 10th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (online) - Bolzano - Italy (EEWC 2020)

**Tenth Enterprise Engineering Working Conference**

/(New Dates!) September 28th - 30th, 2020 (online), Bozen / Bolzano, Italy,
as part of //BOSK 2020/
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Important Dates (submission window):

August 31st: Submission deadline for initial versions of papers

October 18th: Final versions of papers

The 2020 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2020) will be the
10th working conference addressing the field of Enterprise Engineering. As
it is not unlikely that there will still be Covid-19 related travel
restrictions in place for several of us by September, it has been decided
for the BOSK 2020 events to take place in some on-line format. This also
applies to EEWC 2020.

The precise format, and platform, we will employ for EEWC 2020 is still
under investigation. This also depends on the experiences which we, as a
community, will gain from e.g. CAiSE 2020 and IEEE CBI 2020, which have
also chosen to “go on-line”.

Nevertheless, the goal remains to gather academics and practitioners in
order to share innovative research issues and practical experiences,
balancing rigour and relevance, as well as to facilitate profound
discussions on the discipline of enterprise engineering
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. Furthermore, as in earlier years, the proceedings of EEWC 2020 will be
published as post-conference proceedings in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing
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(LNBIP). 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 EEWC.

In going on-line, we will take the opportunity to take a further step in
turning our EEWC conferences in a community-driven working event. We plan
to organise the reviewing process in a more open format, involving a
broader, and open, discussion within the community using an on-line
discussion platform.

More specifically, the plan is to have each paper go through the following
process:

 Each submitted paper (via EasyChair) will be reviewed by three reviewers.
The reviewers will be asked (1) if the current version of the paper is good
enough to be published on the on-line discussion platform, and (2) to
provide a discussion statement regarding the paper, to kick-off the
discussion on the on-line platform.
 The discussions on the on-line platform will start well ahead of the
actual conference and continue to be open just before and during the
conference also.
 Two weeks before the conference, PC-chairs will, based on reviews and
discussions, make a selection of papers that are to be presented. Some of
these papers will already obtain confirmation of publication in Springer
proceedings, some will be conditionally accepted and, after the conference
might be accepted.
 The authors will then have the option to provide an updated version of
their papers. In addition, they will be required to provide a 20 minute
pre-recorded video with a presentation. These will have to be provided one
week before the actual conference will take place.
 During the conference week, the community will be able to read the
(updated version of the paper), and watch the pre-recorded video.
 During the actual conference days, video-meetings will be organised in
which the papers (and presentations) will be discussed in more detail.
 Three weeks after the conference, the authors are required to submit an
updated version of their paper via EasyChair. The latter will be
re-assessed by the reviewers. Based on this, the final selection of papers
to be included in the post-proceedings will be made.

The above structure also allows us to be rather flexible in terms of
submission deadlines. We plan to allow (initial) submissions (see step 1
above) from the 20 July until the 31st of August, while we aim the on-line
forum to be available as of August.

**Proceedings**

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).

As in the previous years, the EEWC working conference will use
post-conference proceedings. This enables the authors to update their
submissions based on the feedback from reviewers, as well as the
discussions during the working conference. Additionally, it provides us
with more flexibility regarding the submission and reviewing process.

**Relevant Topics**

Topics of interest to for the EEWC 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 

 Specific activities within enterprise engineering:
 
 Architecture
 Design
 Transformation
 Creation & use of reference models
 Tool support for enterprise engineering

 Foundations of enterprise engineering:
 
 Cybernetics
 Complex adaptive systems
 Foundations of (conceptual) modelling
 Fact-based thinking & modelling
 Enterprise ontology
 Normalised systems theory
 Foundational ontologies
 Collaborative & participatory modelling & design

 Application of enterprise engineering:
 
 Case studies in enterprise engineering
 Application of enterprise engineering in specific sectors / industries

***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.

For the actual submission, please go to our Easychair conference web page
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***Important Dates***

 Submission window for initial versions of papers:
 20-07-2020 to 31-08-2020

 Discussion on on-line forum: 
 01-08-2020 to 07-10-2020

 Notification of acceptance (full or conditional):
 14-09-2020

 Submission of pre-recorded presentation & updated paper:
 24-09-2020

 Presentation & updated paper available for viewing: 
 25-09-2020 to 07-10-2020

 Conference & video call based discussions:
 28-09-2020 to 30-09-2020

 Final versions of papers due:
 18-10-2020

 Final notification of acceptance to post-proceedings: 
 08-11-2020

 Camera ready: 
 15-11-2020

**Chairs**

***Program Co-Chairs***

 David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
 Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Bolzano / Bozen, Italy
 Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,
Luxembourg
 Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

***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
 Duarte Gouveia, University of Madeira, 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
 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
 Maria-Eugenia Iacob, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 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 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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