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IEEE EDOC 2016 - The 20th IEEE International EDOC Conference
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EDOC 2016 - Vienna, Austria
September 05-09, 2016
http://edoc2016.univie.ac.at/
http://twitter.com/ieee_edoc

IEEE EDOC 2016 is the twentieth conference in a series that provides the 
key forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of enterprise 
computing. EDOC conferences address the full range of models, 
methodologies, and engineering technologies contributing to intra- and 
inter-enterprise application systems. Since 1997, EDOC has brought 
together leading computer scientists, IT decision makers, enterprise 
architects, solution designers, and practitioners to discuss enterprise 
computing challenges, models and solutions from the perspectives of 
academia, industry, and government. The EDOC conference series 
emphasizes a holistic view on enterprise applications engineering and 
management, fostering integrated approaches that address and relate 
business models, business processes, people and technology.

EDOC 2016 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as 
experience papers on enterprise computing from industry. The main theme 
of EDOC 2016 is ”Enabling innovative business models in the enterprise 
of the future” and seeks to explore innovative approaches synthesizing 
concepts of (1) data science, (2) enterprise computing and (3) social 
computing.

Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address current topics and 
issues in this domain.

Topics
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The EDOC 2016 conference seeks high-quality contributions addressing the 
domains, life-cycle issues, and realization technologies involved in 
building, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. 
Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:

Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Application Architecture
  * Enterprise architecture frameworks
  * Enterprise architecture analysis, assessment and prediction
  * Cloud computing and the evolution of enterprise architectures
  * Enterprise ontologies
  * Innovative approaches to architecture management

Model-based Approaches
  * Model-driven architectures and model-driven software development
  * Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
  * Approaches based on reference architectures
  * Collaborative development and cooperative engineering issues

Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) and Enterprise Service 
Architectures (ESA)
  * Service engineering and evolution of related specifications
  * Semantics-based service engineering
  * Service composition, orchestration and choreography
  * Governance in Service-oriented ArchitecturesService policies, 
contract definition and enforcement
  * Security/privacy policy interoperability

Business process management (BPM)
  * Business process modeling, verification, configuration and 
implementation
  * Process-aware information systems (PAIS), Human-centric PAIS, Social BPM
  * Managing business process variability, adaptation and evolution in PAIS
  * Process mining and its application in business analytics
  * Distributed and cross-organizational business processes
  * Data-intensive processes
  * Cloud impact on BPM, business processes in the cloud
  * Adaptive case management and data-driven processes

Business analytics
  * Modeling and predictive analytics for enterprise computing
  * Data-driven enterprise strategy
  * Collaboration enterprise analytic platforms
  * Business process intelligence (e.g., process performance management)
  * Continuous, online analytics for big data in the enterprise
  * Natural language processing in enterprise systems

Business rules
  * Business rule languages and engines
  * Relation between business rules and business processes
  * Business rules and service computing
  * Business rules and compliance management, business process compliance

Information integration and interoperability
  * Business object modeling methodologies and approaches
  * Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
  * Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data warehousing
  * Flexible information models and systems (e.g., object-driven processes)
  * Data quality and trustworthiness
  * Complex event processing and event-driven architectures

Networked Enterprise Solutions
  * Enterprise interoperability, collaboration and its architecture
  * Virtual organizations, including multi-agent system support
  * Cross-enterprise collaboration in a world of cloud, social and big data
  * Digital platforms and ecosystems
  * Trust management

Enterprise applications deployment and governance
  * Performance and operational risk prediction and measurement
  * Quality of service (QoS) and cost of service (CoS)
  * Management and maintenance of enterprise computing systems
  * Information assurance
  * Human and social organizational factors in enterprise computing

Emerging trends in distributed enterprise applications
  * Social information and innovation networks, social media impact on 
the enterprise
  * People-centric collaboration systems, people-centric services
  * Private and public cloud computing Infrastructures
  * Idea management and crowdsourcing
  * Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 and beyond
  * Mobile enterprise services
  * Industry specific solutions (e.g. for aerospace, automotive, 
finance, logistics, medicine and telecommunications)
  * Research and public sector collaboration (e.g. in e-health, 
e-government, e-science)


Submission Guidelines
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Two types of paper submissions are solicited:

  a. scientific research papers, and
  b. industry experience reports or case studies.

Scientific research papers should describe original results not been 
accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. These papers will be 
evaluated based on their scientific and technical contribution, 
originality, and relevance. In turn, industry experience reports should 
provide new insights gained in case studies or when applying enterprise 
computing technology in practice; industry experience reports shall 
further provide important feedback about the state of practice and pose 
challenges for researchers. These papers will be evaluated based on 
their appropriateness, significance, and clarity.

Submissions should be full papers with 8-10 pages. All submissions must 
be made in PDF format and comply with the IEEE Computer Society 
Conference Proceedings Format Guidelines. They should be made via the 
electronic submission system of the EDOC Conference Management system 
hosted on EasyChair.

All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international 
program committee. All presented papers in the conference will be 
published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE 
Xplore Digital Library.



Important Dates:
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Conference full paper submission due: April 1, 2016
Conference paper acceptance notifications: May 30, 2016
Conference camera ready papers due: July 1, 2016

*Workshop Proposal Submission: January 15, 2016*
Workshop Proposal Notification: February 1, 2016
Workshop Paper Submission: April 15, 2016
Workshop Paper Notification: June 13, 2016
Workshop Camera Ready: July 1, 2016

Workshops: September 05-06, 2016
Conference: September 05-09, 2016

Post Conference Publication
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The authors of selected EDOC 2016 papers will be invited to submit a 
revised and extended version of their contribution for a special issue 
in Information Systems 
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/).


Conference Committees
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General Chair
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria

PC Chairs
Florian Matthes, TU Munich, Germany
Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria

Workshop Chairs
Remco Dijkman, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Demo Chairs
Walid Fdhila, University of Vienna, Austria
Stefan Schulte, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Publicity Chair
Andreas Rogge-Solti, WU Vienna, Austria

Local Organization Chair
Monika Hofer-Mozelt, University of Vienna, Austria

Web Chairs
Georg Kaes, University of Vienna, Austria
Manuel Gall, University of Vienna, Austria