Enterprise Engineering (EE) is the application of engineering principles to the design of Enterprise Architectures (EA). It enables deriving the Enterprise Architecture from the enterprise goals and strategy, and aligning it with the enterprise resources in the Computing Continuum. Enterprise architecture maps the enterprise goal and strategy to the enterprise’s resources (actors, assets, IT supports) and supports the evolution of this mapping. It also provides documentation on the assignment of enterprise resources to the enterprise goals and strategy, e.g., for establishing new business models such as platforms.
The SoEA4EE workshop focuses on the paradigm of encapsulating digital resources and capacities as services for enterprise architecture. The workshop aims to develop concepts and methods to assist the engineering and management of service-oriented enterprise architectures (SoEA) and the software systems supporting them in the Computing Continuum.
Topics for Discussion
During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:
1. Digital enterprises, Industry 4.0 and Platforms in the Computing Continuum
New trends in digitization for EA and EE e.g. Industry 4.0, platforms
Impacts of digitized products on EA
EA - contributions and challenges for digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and platforms
Fitting SoEA with cloud, edge, fog computing
Pervasive service ecosystems
Context awareness and service orientation in ubiquitous computing
2. SoEA and influence of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems, and big data in Enterprise Engineering
Trends in SoEA to use the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems and big data (volume, variety, velocity, veracity)
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence, social information systems, and big data on the SoEA
Use of ChatGPT, etc. as component of Enterprise Architecture
Generative AI as tool in Enterprise Engineering
3. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the SoEA
Interdependencies between services and business goals
Concepts and methods to align services with the business strategy
New potentials and trends created by services to reengineer business processes
Quality issues and non-functional requirements for SoEA
Coherence of services with compliance requirements (among others, GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, ISO 15408)
4. Design of SoEA
Specifications of business, software, platform, and infrastructure services
Matching business services with business processes
Lifecycle of business, software, platform, and infrastructure services
Data-driven monitoring of the fulfilment of non-functional requirements (big data, IoT, …)
Benchmarks and key performance indicators for services
Approaches the continual improvement of services
5. Governance of SoEA
Impacts of SoEA on the compliance and governance requirements
Meta-services for business, software, platform, and infrastructure services
Building service (value) nets - consisting of business, software, platform and infrastructure services
Meta-services for cloud-environments
Impacts of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) on the governance of EA
Submission
Full papers describing mature results are sought. In addition, idea papers may be submitted to facilitate discussion of recent research results and ongoing projects. Industry experience reports that provide new insights gained in case studies or when applying service-oriented EA for enterprise engineering are also welcome. The paper selection will be based on the relevance of a paper to the main topics and its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All contributions will be peer-reviewed based on the complete version.
At least one author of each accepted workshop paper will have to register for the whole EDOC 2024 conference and attend the workshop to present the paper.
The SoEA4EE workshop has been a full-day workshop in conjunction with EDOC’09 in New Zealand, with EDOC’10 in Brazil, EDOC’11 in Finland, EDOC 2012 in China, EDOC’2013 in Canada, EDOC’2014 in Germany, EDOC’2015 in Australia, EDOC’2016 in Austria, EDOC’2017 in Canada, EDOC’2018 in Stockholm, EDOC’2019 in Paris, and a half day workshop in conjunction with EDOC’2020 The Netherlands (virtual), EDOC’2021 Australia (virtual), EDOC’2022 in Italy and EDOC’2023 in The Netherlands. The programs of the previous editions can be reached from the portal of the SoEA4EE series: www.soea4ee.org.
Expected results
SoEA4EE 2024 papers will be published in a joint post-proceedings volume for all EDOC 2024 + CBI 2024 workshops, with Springer under the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
Important dates
Workshop paper submission: July 1st, 2024
Workshop paper notification: July 19th, 2024
Author registration: August 2nd, 2024
Workshop camera-ready paper for joint workshop LNBIP proceedings: September 29th, 2024
Organisers
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Primary Contact:
Selmin Nurcan Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI) France Selmin.Nurcan@univ-paris1.fr
Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics Germany Rainer.Schmidt@hm.edu