CfP: 11th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (online) - (EEWC 2021)

**Eleventh Enterprise Engineering Working Conference**

/November 11th - 12th and December 16th - 17th 2021 (online)/

Important new Dates (1st submission window):

October 4th: Abstract submission deadline

October 18th: Submission deadline for initial versions of papers

November 8th: Final versions of papers for presentation

The 2021 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2021) will be the
11th working conference addressing the field of Enterprise Engineering. It
will be a special conference, as the CIAO! network
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, the EE-Network.eu
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, and the EE Institute
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will join forces to become an integrated network, concerned with the
development of theory-based and practice-proven methods, techniques, and
tools for enterprise engineering. 

The new network will provide a platform to further strengthen our
activities, such as:

 academic events, and the EEWC
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working conference in particular,
 the development of an EE body of knowledge,
 joint research projects,
 outreach events such as EE Insights,
 a doctoral consortium and joint PhD training and supervision,
 courses and certification for practitioners.

The formal kick-off of the new network will take place during this year's
EEWC.
Due to Covid-19 and related travel restrictions, it has been decided that
EEWC 2021 will take place, as in 2020, in an on-line format.

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 2021 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 maintaining the online format, we will take this opportunity to keep our
EEWC conference in a community-driven working event.

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 presented at the discussion sessions.
 The discussions on the online platform will happen during the conference
days.
 With sufficient time before conference paper presentation/discussion
rounds, PC-chairs will, based on reviews, 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 to be presented at the online conference. In addition, they
will be requested to provide a 15 minute pre-recorded video with a
presentation as a fallback solution in case the online presentation fails
due to bandwidth problems. These should be provided before the actual
conference presentations will take place, according to the dates below.
 Close to the conference days, the community will be able to read the
updated version of the paper watch the pre-recorded video and initiate
discussions on an online forum.
 During the actual conference days, video-meetings will be organised in
which the papers (and presentations) will be discussed in more detail.
 After the conference, authors are required to submit an updated version of
their paper taking into account the discussions and chairs' feedback. 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 as per the dates specified below.

**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

**S*ubmission***

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***

 First window of submissions

 Deadline for submission of abstracts:
 04-10-2021

 Submission deadline for initial versions of papers:
 18-10-2021

 Notification of acceptance (full or conditional):
 01-11-2021

 Paper presentation/discussion - first round

 Presentation & updated paper available for viewing: 
 08-11-2021

 Conference & video call based discussions:
 11,12-11-2021

 Second window of submissions

 Deadline for submission of abstracts:
 08-11-2021

 Deadline for initial versions of papers:
 06-12-2021

 Paper presentation/discussion - second round

 Presentation & updated paper available for viewing: 
 13-12-2021

 Conference & video call based discussions:
 16,17-12-2021

 Post-conference versions of papers due:
 06-01-2022

 Final notification of acceptance to post-proceedings: 
 20-01-2022

 Camera ready: 
 03-02-2022

**Chairs**

**P*rogram Co-Chairs***

 David Aveiro, University of Madeira, Portugal
 Henderik A. Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology,
Luxembourg
 Sérgio Guerreiro, IST / INESC ID, Lisboa, Portugal
 Marne De Vries, University of Pretoria, South Africa

**P*rogram 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
 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
 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 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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