About the Conference

IEEE EDOC 2017 (http://edoc2017.ca) is the twenty-first 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 IEEE EDOC conference series emphasizes a holistic view on enterprise applications engineering and management, fostering integrated approaches that address and relate business processes, people and technology. EDOC’17 welcomes high quality scientific submissions as well as experience papers on enterprise computing from industry.

Topics

The IEEE EDOC 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 Architectures
Service 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, 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

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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edoc17.

All papers will be refereed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be made accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library.

Post Conference Publication
The authors of a collection of selected papers will be invited to prepare a substantially revised and extended version of their papers for publication in a special journal issue. The journal will be announced in due course.

Important Dates
Conference paper abstract submission (optional): April 30, 2017
Conference full paper submission due: May 7, 2017
Conference paper acceptance notifications: June 25, 2017
Conference camera ready papers due: August 6, 2017
Workshop proposal submissions: February 19, 2017
Workshop proposal acceptance notification: March 5, 2017
Workshop paper submissions: May 7, 2017
Workshops paper acceptance notifications: July 16, 2017
Workshops camera-ready papers due: August 6, 2017
Conference: October 10-13, 2017