Call for Papers
ManComp 2025
10th Workshop on Managed Complexity
https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ManComp2025/
1-day workshop
September 17, 2025
Riga Technical University, Latvia
in conjunction with BIR 2025
https://bir2025.rtu.lv

Managing complexity has a long tradition for algorithms and general problems. However, it is an important issue also in the Business Informatics domain. Here, the complexity of different systems and systems of systems has to be managed. While complexity is usually associated with large or very large-scale systems still, managing complexity is important even for systems with small sizes operating in complex environments. Nowadays, informatics requires handling complexity at different levels and configurations of social, physical, enterprise, software, and hardware systems. The workshop focuses on approaches and methods for managing complexity in the domain of applied informatics that may concern the interplay of systems and ecosystems of various sizes and substances. Its purpose is to share and transfer knowledge on complexity identification, representation, controlling, and reduction, as well as to exploit possible synergies in the development of innovative complexity-handling strategies, approaches, and methods.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical approaches or real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories in managing complexity. It welcomes seeking and discussing answers to such complexity management questions as:
- How is complexity divided?
- What kinds of models are to be specified?
- What is the role of system architecture in complexity handling?
- How is the human recognized in the loop?
- What kind of rules are to be applied?
- In which way do patterns help?
- Which notation or ontologies are useful in complexity handling?
- How is knowledge reused?
- How is knowledge propagated?
- How does complexity relate to resilience?
- How to handle complexity in digital business ecosystems?
- and many others.

Based on these discussions, we expect to deepen the understanding of strategies, approaches, and methods in managing complexity in enterprise and software engineering. A cross-pollination of experiences in both domains is assumed.
Three types of submissions are welcomed: position papers, research papers, and reports. All types should treat a topic from the workshop themes.
- Position papers (2-6 pages): Such papers should state the position of the authors regarding any topic of the workshop.
- Reports (6-8 pages): Experience reports and case studies are expected to be submitted in this category.
- Research papers (10-12 pages): Research papers should describe innovative approaches.

Publication
The accepted papers will be published in the BIR 2025 conference workshop proceedings, Authors must use the CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published with CEUR-WS. The uniform style for the proceedings is 1-column. The CEUR-ART styles can be found in the file referenced in https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ManComp2025/call.

Submission
The papers should be submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2025 and clicking the option „Workshop on Managed Complexity”

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: July 7th, 2025
Author notification: July 31st, 2025
Camera-ready submission: August 18th, 2025
Workshop date: September 17th, 2025

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Measures of complexity
- Agility in complexity
- Models for handling complexity
- Tools for managing complexity
- Enterprise Architectures and Complexity
- Ontologies for managing complexity
- Patterns for managing complexity
- Capability impact on complexity management

Organizers and the chairs of PC
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Charles Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark

Program Committee
Robert-Andrei Buchmann, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Ebba Hvannberg, Iceland University, Iceland
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Christophe Kolski, University of Valenciennes, France
Audrone Lupeikiene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Bartosz Marcinkowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Christian Märtin, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
Charles Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark
Andrea Morichetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jacob Nørbjerg, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Peteris Rudzajs, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
Werner Schmidt, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt Business School, Germany
Chris Stary, University of Linz, Austria
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine

Publicity chair
Peteris Rudzajs, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Contact
If further information is needed, please contact:
- Marite Kirikova: marite.kirikova@rtu.lv
- Peter Forbrig: peter.forbrig@uni-rostock.de
- Charles Møller: charles@mpe.au.dk