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)