EDOC 2022 is the 26th conference in the EDOC series that provides a key forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of Enterprise Computing. EDOC addresses the full range of models, methodologies, and engineering technologies contributing to building and evolving intra- and inter-enterprise software systems. From 2022 on, EDOC will be spelled-out "Enterprise Design, Operations and Computing" to reflect the broad range of aspects of interest to the conference.

EDOC 2022 will be collocated with the 28th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), and will take place in the beautiful region of South Tyrol in the Italian Alps.

EDOC 2022 calls for contributions with a special emphasis on the theme of designing and operating "Flexible Enterprises". This year's theme reflects an ever changing world under the influence of disruptive events, trends and technologies, as well as the increasing role of artificial intelligence.

In this context, new concepts and approaches are required: (a) to address pressing challenges in domains like healthcare, advanced manufacturing, finance, environmental management and sustainable agriculture, supply chain management and others, while ensuring compliance with ethical and legal principles, as well as long-term interoperability and resilience of enterprise systems; and (b) to leverage technologies such as digital twins, machine learning, IoT, big data analytics, distributed ledgers/blockchain in trusted enterprise practices. A particular challenge of interest in this scenario is the combined use of data-driven approaches (including machine learning) and other AI techniques with established modeling approaches for Enterprise Computing (including Enterprise Architecture Modeling, Business Process Modeling, Model-Driven Enterprise Systems Engineering, Conceptual Modeling, etc.) towards "augmented" enterprise systems.

EDOC 2022 welcomes high-quality scientific submissions as well as experience papers on enterprise computing from industry. Expert panel discussions and keynotes will address current topics and issues in this domain. (A separate call-for-papers will be issued for a demonstration track, a doctoral consortium and specific workshops.)

Topics

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

    Enterprise and Systems Architecture
        Methods, Frameworks and Tools supporting Architecture
        Reference Architectures, Architecture Conceptualisation & Evaluation
        System architectures
        Interoperability and collaboration
        Cloud computing and the evolution of enterprise architectures

    Service-Oriented IT- and Enterprise Architectures
        Service composition, orchestration and choreography
        Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS)
        Governance in Service-oriented architectures (SOA/SOEA)
        Service policies, contract definition and enforcement
        Flexibility and Sustainability
        Cloud-based IT and Enterprise Architectures

    Software Architecture & Engineering
        Software engineering methods for enterprise computing
        Software architecture modeling approaches
        Analysis and design techniques for non-functional requirements
        Architectures for cyber-physical systems
        Security in software intensive enterprise-systems

    Model Based Enterprise Engineering
        Model-driven architectures and software development
        Modeling based on domain specific languages (DSL)
        Domain specific reference models
        Approaches based on reference architectures
        Methodologies for the construction of digital twins

    Enterprise Security
        Sensing and Awareness
        Threat modeling, attack simulation, intrusion detection and prevention
        Access control & SOA security
        Blockchain and enterprise security

    Business Process and Business rules
        Process modeling, verification, configuration, architectures and implementations
        Process mining and business analytics
        Cloud impact on BPM, business processes in the cloud
        Business process agility/flexibility and decision management
        Business rule languages and engines, process compliance
        Robotic process automation
        Data processing pipelines and workflows

    Semantics and Information Management
        Business object modeling methodologies and approaches
        Taxonomies, ontologies and business knowledge integration
        Enterprise ontologies
        Master data management, data mining and (real-time) data
        warehousing, data lakes
        Complex event processing and event-driven architectures
        Data quality and trustworthiness
        Combining data-driven and symbolic modeling approaches