About EDOC 2016
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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.

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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)

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Submission Guidelines
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Two types of paper submissions are solicited:

scientific research papers, and
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.