[AISWorld] CfP TEAR 2017: Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research @ IEEE EDOC 2017

[Aier, Stephan]

[Along with the EDOC conference the submission deadline has been extended till May 21, 2017]

The 12th TEAR workshop is organized in conjunction with IEEE EDOC 2017, October 10-13, Québec City, Canada: http://edoc2017.ca/

The international TEAR workshop series brings together Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers from different research communities and provides a forum to present EA research results and to discuss future EA research directions.

The field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained considerable attention over the last years. EA significantly contributes to organizations’ need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of an enterprise, from business processes to IT support. Moreover, a change in one component of the overall architecture may influence many other components of the architecture. For example, when a new product is introduced, business processes for production, sales, and after-sales need to be adapted. It may be necessary to change applications, or even adapt the IT infrastructure. Each of these fields will have its own (partial) architectures. To keep the enterprise architecture coherent and aligned with the business goals, the relations between these different architectures must be explicit, and a change should be carried through in all architectures. In contrast to traditional architecture management approaches such as IT architecture, software architecture, or IS architecture, EA explicitly incorporates “pure” business-related artifacts in addition to traditional IS/IT artifacts. For Enterprise Architecture the focus is on the overall enterprise and concerns its organization, its components, the relationship between components, and principles governing its design and evolution.
Topics

Topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:

EA management and impact
    Drivers and obstacles of EA dissemination
    EA communication and marketing
    EA governance and integration into corporate/IT governance
    Processes and patterns for EA development, mastering, communication and enforcement
    Evolution of an EA
    Measurement, metrics, and maturity models for EA artifacts and processes
    Managing a growing scope of concerns: legal, compliance, social, security, etc.
    The role of EA in agile or bimodal IT management approaches

EA and decision-making
    EA analysis for decision-making, particularly for investments
    Architectural Thinking in day-to-day decision making
    EA usage in corporate strategic planning
    Investigations of the EA needs of decision-makers
    Collaboration and sense-making in the context of EA
    EA in the context of complexity and uncertainty

EA modeling
    EA reference models, meta models and frameworks
    Enterprise modeling, EA and MDA
    Quality of EA models
    Viewpoints in EA
    Experimenting with novel modelling and simulation approaches
    Tool support for EA

EA and digitization
    Combining (digital) product architecture and EA
    The impact of the increasing digitization of business artifacts such as products on EA
    EA in the digital transformation

EA and related disciplines
    Combining BPM and EA
    EA and capability-based planning
    EA and system development
    Incorporation of knowledge management and software engineering in EA
    EA methods and tools that go beyond traditional software engineering

EA research approaches
    Methodologies and theory for EA research
    EA and organizational theory
    EA and the creation of EA research and teaching centers

EA Cases and implementation
    Case studies on EA
    EA for small and medium-sized companies
    EA and e-government
    EA in the context of extended enterprises and large ecosystems
    EA business cases


Important dates
Workshop paper submission deadline:   May 21, 2017
Workshop paper notification to authors: July 16, 2017
Camera-ready paper:                                 August 6, 2017
Workshop:                                                   October 10, 2017


Submission
Papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to TEAR as described in the topics section. Papers submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration.

Workshop papers will be published in a second volume of the EDOC 2017 conference proceedings.

All papers must be prepared in accordance with the IEEE double-column format (maximum 8 pages) and be submitted electronically (in PDF) via the submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tear2017

All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the IEEE website: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Workshop co-chairs
    Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS), Stockholm, Sweden
    Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Martin Mocker, Reutlingen University, Germany, and MIT, USA

Steering committee
    Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
    Florian Matthes, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany
    James Lapalme, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
    João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
    Marc Lankhorst, BiZZdesign, the Netherlands
    Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Program committee
    Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen
    Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen
    João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo
    Giuseppe Berio, Université de Bretagne Sud
    Markus Borg, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS)
    Nacer Boudjlida, Université de Lorraine, LORIA
    Randy Bradley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Sabine Buckl, Technische Universität München
    Neo Bui, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Markus Buschle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    François Coallier, École de technologie supérieure
    Sybren de Kinderen, University of Duisburg-Essen
    Kristine Dery, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Mathias Ekstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Hans-Georg Fill, University of Vienna
    Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (RISE SICS)
    Daniel Fürstenau, Freie Universität Berlin
    Aurona Gerber, CAIR, Meraka Institute, CSIR
    Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University
    Kazem Haki, University of St. Gallen
    Maria-Eugenia Iacob, University of Twente
    Pontus Johnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Juergen Jung, DHL Global Mail
    Elena Kornyshova, CNAM
    Robert Lagerström, KTH the Royal Institute of Technology
    Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam
    Marc Lankhorst, BiZZdesign
    James Lapalme, Ecole de technologie superieure
    Christine Legner, University of Lausanne
    Matthew Levy, Hawai‘i Pacific University
    Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland University
    Pericles Loucopoulos, The University of Manchester
    Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München
    Martin Mocker, Reutlingen University and MIT
    Alexandre Moise, Université de Sherbrooke
    Agnes Nakakawa, Makerere University Kampala
    Selmin Nurcan, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne
    Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen
    Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
    Kurt Sandkuhl, The University of Rostock
    William Schiano, Bentley University
    Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences
    Christian Schweda, Allianz
    Ulrike Steffens, HAW Hamburg
    Dirk Stelzer, TU Ilmenau
    Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen
    Pierre-Martin Tardif, Universite de Sherbrooke
    Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth