11th TEAR Workshop 2016, Vienna
The 11th TEAR workshop is organized in conjunction with IEEE EDOC 2016, September 5-9, Vienna, Austria.


The international TEAR workshop series brings together Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers from different research communities and provides a forum to present EA research results and to discuss future EA research directions.

The field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained considerable attention over the last years. EA is important because organizations need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of an enterprise, from business processes to IT support. Moreover, a change in a particular part of the overall architecture may influence many other parts of the architecture. For example, when a new product is introduced, business processes for production, sales and after-sales need to be adapted. It might be necessary to change applications, or even adapt the IT infrastructure. Each of these fields will have its own (partial) architectures. To keep the enterprise architecture coherent and aligned with the business goals, the relations between these different architectures must be explicit, and a change should be carried through methodically in all architectures. In contrast to traditional architecture management approaches such as IT architecture, software architecture or IS architecture, EA explicitly incorporates “pure” business-related artifacts in addition to traditional IS/IT artifacts. For Enterprise Architecture the focus is on the overall enterprise and concerns its organization, its components, the relationship between components and principles governing its design and evolution.

Topics

Topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Case studies on EA
Combining BPM and EA
Drivers and obstacles of EA dissemination
EA and e-government
EA and organizational theory
EA and system development
EA and capability-based planning
EA business cases
EA communication and marketing
EA for small and medium-sized companies
EA governance and integration into corporate/IT governance
EA reference models, meta models and frameworks
EA usage in corporate strategic planning
Enterprise modeling, EA and MDA
Evolution of an EA
Incorporation of knowledge management and software engineering in EA
Measurement, metrics, and maturity models for EA artifacts and processes
Methodologies and research theory for EA research
Processes and patterns for EA development, mastering, communication and enforcement
Quality of EA models
Tool support for EA
Viewpoints in EA
EA analysis for decision-making, particularly for investments
Architectural Thinking in day-to-day decision making
Investigations of the EA needs of decision-makers
EA in the context of extended enterprises and large ecosystems
Managing a growing scope of concerns: legal, compliance, social, security, etc.
EA in the context of complexity and uncertainty
EA and the creation of EA research and teaching centers
Collaboration and sense-making in the context of EA
EA methods and tools that go beyond traditional software engineering
Experimenting with novel modelling and simulation approaches
Important dates

Workshop paper submission deadline: April 15, 2016 April 24, 2016
Workshop paper notification to authors: June 13, 2016
Camera-ready paper: July 1, 2016
Workshop: September 5 or 6, 2016
Submission

Papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to TEAR as described in the topics section. Papers submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration.

Workshop papers will be published in a second volume of the EDOC 2016 conference proceedings.

All papers must be prepared in accordance with the IEEE double-column format (maximum 8 pages) and be submitted electronically (in PDF) via the submission website.

All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the IEEE website.

Workshop co-chairs

Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm, Sweden
James Lapalme, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Steering committee

Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Florian Matthes, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany
James Lapalme, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Marc Lankhorst, BiZZdesign, the Netherlands
Mathias Ekstedt, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Program committee

Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen
Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen
João Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo
Giuseppe Berio, Université de Bretagne Sud
Markus Borg, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Nacer Boudjlida, Université de Lorraine, LORIA
Sabine Buckl, Technische Universität München
Neo Bui, Rochester Institute of Technology
Markus Buschle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
François Coallier, École de technologie supérieure
Sybren de Kinderen, University of Luxembourg
Rebecca Deneckere, Centre de Recherche en Informatique
Mathias Ekstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Vienna
Ulrik Franke, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Daniel Fürstenau, Freie Universität Berlin
Aurona Gerber, CAIR, Meraka Institute, CSIR
Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University
Kazem Haki, University of St. Gallen
Maria-Eugenia Iacob, University of Twente
Pontus Johnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Juergen Jung, DHL Global Mail
Elena Kornyshova, CNAM
Robert Lagerström, KTH the Royal Institute of Technology
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam
Marc Lankhorst, BiZZdesign
James Lapalme, Ecole de technologie superieure
Christine Legner, University of Lausanne
Peter Loos, IWi at DFKI, Saarland University
Pericles Loucopoulos, The University of Manchester
Florian Matthes, Technische Universität München
Alexandre Moise, Université de Sherbrooke
Agnes Nakakawa, Makerere University Kampala
Selmin Nurcan, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen
Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Kurt Sandkuhl, The University of Rostock
Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Christian Schweda, LeanIT42 GmbH
Ulrike Steffens, HAW Hamburg
Dirk Stelzer, TU Ilmenau
Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen
Pierre-Martin Tardif, Universite de Sherbrooke
Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth