Increased flexibility and agility, co-operation, continuous improvement, knowledge work and the progress towards learning organisations are important challenges for enterprises. Enterprise Systems (ES) - also called Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) - are key IT assets to deal with these challenges. They enable industrial organizations and public administrations to integrate, coordinate and evolve their business processes across functional and organization boundaries and to effectively exploit information for sustaining success of the enterprises. The provide the basis for effective decision making and allow for new business models.

Submission Topics

The conference focuses on both the technical and application aspects of enterprise systems and the complex and cross-disciplinary problems of enterprise integration. Apart from that, the conference deals with methods and technologies for the development, adoption, and application of context-rich enterprise systems leading to smart machines or intelligent cloud services. The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research and application-oriented papers on all topics of Enterprise Systems. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Enterprise Modelling & Integration
• Maturity Models for Enterprise Architecture & Engineering
• Models and Frameworks for Enterprise Architecture & Engineering
• Enterprise Architecture Adoption and Governance
• Enterprise Architecture & Engineering and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Service Design
• Enterprise Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
• Enterprise Systems for Case Management
• Cross-organizational collaboration and virtual enterprise
• Information Governance
• Big Data
• Enterprise Systems for e-Government

• Enterprise Architecture & Engineering

• Maintenance and Evolution of Enterprise Architecture & Engineering
• Business-IT Alignment
• Methods, Processes and Patterns for Enterprise Architecture & Engineering
• Organizational Theory and System Development
• Decision Support Systems
• Enterprise Systems for Business Process Management
• Information integration and interoperability
• Integration of (legacy) enterprise applications and information
• Cloud computing
• Industry 4.0

Workshops
 

There will be three special workshop sessions:

• Advanced modeling and ontologies in enterprises
  

  Models are abstract representations of reality and are often used to depict, analyse and communicate features of complex phenomena. The modern enterprise is a complex system and advanced modeling techniques, including ontologies, are often used within enterprise systems, as well as enterprise architecture and engineering. This track is concerned with all aspects concerning the use and application of advanced modeling techniques and ontologies in enterprises.

• Business Processes in the Cloud
  Companies have been automating business processes for decades. With the advent of cloud computing, they are looking at a more service-oriented approach. BUsiness Process as a Servcie (BPaaS) sits on top of the other three foundational cloud services: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. A BPaaS service is likely to have well-defined interfaces so that it can be easily connected to related services. Submissions can be about any of the areas of orchestration, deployment and execution of services on the cloud. The workshop is supported by the project CloudSocket (http://www.cloudsocket.eu)
• Learning of Process Knowledge

Learning in organisations is and has always been very important to keep enterprises competitive. Public Administrations are required to gear their services towards demand, in compliance with the law. Process related single-loop learning focuses on supporting employees to readily learn and apply new processes and to improve business processes. A particular challenge represents the implementation of double-loop and Deutero learning in the organisational context. How can mental models be externalized? How can the gap be closed between espoused theory and theory in use? How to trigger double-loop learning and how to evaluate and retrofit its results? The track on learning of process knowledge addresses these questions both on individual and organisational learning within organisations.

Submissions dedicated to these workshop sessions can contain preliminary research results.

Submissions to this conference must represent original material that has been neither submitted to nor published in any other proceedings or journals. All papers selected for this conference are double-blind peer-reviewed. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. ES 2015 conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore.

We accept two kinds of papers:

• Full papers present final result. They must not exceed 12 pages.
• Short papers can contain preliminary results. They must not exceed 8 pages.

All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available from https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submissions must be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) format. They must not contain the names and addresses of the authors. Author names are to be mentioned on the submission page.

Paper Submission

May 18, 2015 (extended)

Notification of Acceptance

June 30, 2015

Final Papers

August 16, 2015

Conference Date

October 14-15, 2015